21st Annual University of Richmond International film Series: Amarcord November 6, 2009

This series is free and open to the public. All films are shown in Jepson Hall 118 unless otherwise noted. Friday showings are at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday showings are at 7:30 p.m. The films are shown in the original language with English subtitles. For more information, please contact Paul Portefield.

Amarcord
November 6 & 8

Italy, 1974

Directed by Federico Fellini

123 minutes (Rated R)

Language: Italian

Amarcord is a trip down memory lane that could only be navigated by the likes of Federico Fellini. His last motion picture seen as a masterpiece is not so much a story a wistful montage of vignettes in which the idiosyncratic filmmaker revisits the coastal Italian town of his birth, Rimini. The movie’s title says it all: in the Italian dialect of Romagna, the region that includes Rimini, Amarcord means “We remember.” Recipient of the 1974 Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film, Amarcord takes place in the Mussolini-led Italy in the mid-1930s. Employing an episodic structure built around the seasons’ cycle, Fellini creates an impressionistic work that is almost painterly in its beauty and ability to evoke bittersweet emotion. The film is especially noteworthy for the Giuseppe Rotunno’s gorgeous cinematography and Nino Rota’s haunting musical score. Janus Films restored print of Amarcord played to sellout crowds at the New Film Forum in December 2008.

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