Amarcord

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Call Number: Blu-ray FLC-ITA Amarcord
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Title from container; credits and cast from booklet in container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973.
Contains a booklet in container with program notes, an essay by scholar Sam Rohdie, and an essay by Fellini.
Blu-ray release date: Feb. 8, 2011.
Special features: audio commentary by Peter Brunette and Frank Burke ; Fellini's homecoming, a 45 min. documentary ; video interview with Magali Noël ; Federico Fellini's drawing of characters in the film ; "Felliniana," a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord, from the collection of Don Young ; archival audio interviews with Fellini and his friends and family by Gideo Bachmann ; restoration demonstration ; deleted scenes ; American release trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by Sam Rohdie and Fellini's 1967 essay "My Rimini."
Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi, Bruno Zanin, Gianfilippo Carcano, Josiane Tanzilli, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, Guiseppe Ianigro, Ferruccio Brembilla.
A portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, in which director Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political repartee.
Blu-ray, region A, widescreen (1.85:1), mono; requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

More Important Than Interesting submitted by Meginator on July 4, 2022, 9:01am This is the kind of film to appreciate more as a landmark in filmmaking history than for its story or technical elements, yet Federico Fellini’s version of ironic nostalgia still holds a compelling narrative power. The disjoined story takes place as a series of vignettes that together cover a year in prewar Fascist Italy, with characters popping in and out of the narrative to create a sense of lived-in village experiences and occasional narration breaking the fourth wall. The film has a strong sense of metaphor to it while also working literally to depict a pivotal year in a teenage boy’s life. While I didn’t find much to directly relate to here and found some of the thematic content uncomfortably juvenile (probably as a powerful and important metaphor or something, but it still bothered me), Fellini’s artistic vision still resonated with me in some ways.