Amarcord

NEW 35MM RESTORATION! | Fellini, rarely finer, delighted audiences with this funny and affectionate fantasy vision of his boyhood, the fourth of the legendary director’s works to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film. Amarcord has now been given a gorgeous new 35mm restoration under the supervision of Giuseppe Rotunno, the renowned cinematographer who originally shot its sumptuous images. Hailed by many critics as a welcome return to form for Fellini after the extravagant excesses of Satyricon and Roma, Amarcord — the title is Romagnese dialect for "I remember" — is set in Fellini’s hometown of Rimini during the Fascist period. It follows the comic coming-of-age adventures of Titta (Bruno Zanin), a teenaged Fellini surrogate making his way through the minefields of religion, love, sex, politics, puberty, and family life. An inspired mix of memory, melancholia, imagination, bawdy humour, and nostalgia, the film is set to a memorable musical score by Nino Rota, a favourite Fellini collaborator. The screenplay, Oscar nominated, was co-written with the great Tonino Guerra, whose extensive credits include many a film for Antonioni, Rosi, the Tavianis, and Angelopoulos. "What a triumph! Amarcord is even more beautiful than 8½" (Penelope Gilliatt, The New Yorker). "A film of exhilarating beauty ...Amarcord may possibly be Federico Fellini’s most marvellous film" (Vincent Canby, New York Times). Colour, 35mm, in Italian with English subtitles. 125 mins.