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Essential Fellini

We intended to screen this retrospective at the Belcourt during the last months of 2020 — the centenary year of Fellini’s birth. Now, mid-way through 2021, we’re thrilled to be able to carry forth with most of that original plan. Bringing together 11 of the director’s greatest spectacles, all beautifully restored, this modest assemblage of Fellini’s filmography represents an artist who conjured a cinematic universe all his own — a vision of the world as a three-ring circus in which his innermost infatuations, fears and fantasies take center stage.

ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL
Sun, Jul 11 | Thu, Jul 15

ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL

Fellini’s allegorical pseudo-documentary depicts an Italian TV crew’s visit to a dilapidated church to meet an orchestra rehearsing under a tyrannical conductor. As petty squabbles break out amid the different factions of the ensemble, the meeting descends into madness. The final collaboration between Fellini and legendary composer Nino Rota.
AND THE SHIP SAILS ON
Sun, Jul 11 | Thu, Jul 15

AND THE SHIP SAILS ON

A motley crew of European aristocrats (and a lovesick rhinoceros) board a luxurious ocean liner on the eve of the first World War to scatter the ashes of a beloved diva. Fabricated entirely in Rome’s famed Cinecittà studios, Fellini’s quirky, imaginative fable reaches spectacular new visual heights with its stylized re-creation of a decadent bygone era.
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