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Summary: The magic of Fellini
Review: Fellini's theme of coming of age memoir works as a beautiful nostalgic piece. The film resonates from an earlier film of his 8 1/2 showing the director's flashes to his seaside hometown. I've watched this film several times and on every occassion find something new. Here's a tip to enjoy watching a foreign film - Do NOT watch the English dubbed version if there is any - so much is lost in the film. Fellini's films work with subtitles because they make you forget you're reading them at all and as always, Fellini pleases both eye and ear and subsequently the heart. The musical score by Nino Rota is something one looks forward to in every scene. His music perfectly sets the tempo of each image, and I mean each and every one. What a duo of artistic genius these two men are! Watching the film on its excellent Criterion-restored DVD version, one can only wonder what the cinema world would be without Fellini.
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Summary: MY FAVORITE FELLINI FILM.
Review: This film has all the trademark Fellini tracking shots and surrealism, but what makes it so enjoyable to me is the rude humor. One reviewer said, "lewd and bawdy." Exactly. Shots from behind as women place their derrieres on bicycle seats almost made me wet myself. Il Duce and the Fascists are made to look ridiculous. A grandfather who amuses himself with flatulence. A mad Uncle Teo who refuses to unzip while urinating, then climbs a tree and won't come down, while screaming, "I need a woman." A group of boys masturbating together in a car while verbalizing the sexual images that are in their heads. A boy who proves his worthiness by lifting an over-weight tobacconist, then plunges his face into her ample bossom as his reward. It all makes me squeal with delight.In the film's most haunted and surreal image, some of the townsfolk go out at night in small boats to witness the passing of the luxury liner, The Rex. The liner floats by as if in a dream, and will delight lovers of FILM ART. Beautiful. Don't miss the FUNNIEST and most BEAUTIFUL foreign film to come down the pike. I like it better than 8 1/2 and consider this Fellini's MASTERPIECE. WONDERFUL STUFF from a TRUE AUTEUR.
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Summary: Rapturous
Review: A stunning, gorgeous work. The seemingly accidental colliding of scenes, which come and go as memories do, is what makes Fellini's Amarcord (I remember) such a perfect depiction of one's memories of youth. It feels like a collection of moments so bright and vibrant, that it is totally believable that it would be those that the central figure, Titta, would remember. Fellini remembers his own childhood, of course, through Titta in Amarcord, and the help of a lot of fantasy and fiction, which Fellini loves to deploy in order to reach penetrating truth. Rich colours, cinematography, and a beautiful Nino Rota score also help create the dreamlike feel of memory. Fellini had such a sense for movement - both of the camera, and for the arrangement of figures in the frame (also known as mise-en-scene), and though it is nearly impossible to pick a favourite Fellini work, this sense works here just as marvellously and hypnotically as it does in 8 1/2. Amarcord is an enrapturing film - truly a thing to behold
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Summary: a great Criterion Collection film. Fellini's youth revisted
Review: The film title means "I remember" This movie, filmed in Fellini's home town of Rimini is his depection of what he remembers of his own teenage years. In it we have a series of unrelated scenes which merge together to create a depiction of what life was like under Musollini's facist regime. It is a very interesting film with some humor in it. My favorite scene was when smeone had put a gramaphone (record player) in the bell tower of a local building and had "Internationale" playing on it! The police reaction is quite humorous. It is cool how the facists considered communism 'subversive'. Fellini said that is was based loosely on his own teenage years.
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Summary: This work may be well Fellini's masterpiece
Review: This collections of vignettes around his early youth, still remain as an outstanding triumph in the italian cinema.
The Fellini's style still influences in this age. Watch Ettore Scola (C'erovamo tanto amati) ,Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso and 1900)and Kusturica (Underground).
The irreverent moods created by this only surrealistic ambassador italian are a song to the freedom , a true 'ode to the joy' and a monumental rendition to the fertile imagination.
Amarcord in my view, is the peak of Fellini as dream maker, as story teller and above all as natural and organical sense of humor, in all of its possible and imaginable frequencies, since the virginal, poignant, irreverent, bitter and austere till the most no mercy satire.
Watch this unsurpassed film in its genre.
One of the glorious achievements not only of the cinema, but the art widely speaking.
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Summary: a great Criterion Collection film. Fellini's youth revisted
Review: The film title means "I remember" This movie, filmed in Fellini's home town of Rimini is his depection of what he remembers of his own teenage years. In it we have a series of unrelated scenes which merge together to create a depiction of what life was like under Musollini's facist regime. It is a very interesting film with some humor in it. My favorite scene was when smeone had put a gramaphone (record player) in the bell tower of a local building and had "Internationale" playing on it! The police reaction is quite humorous. It is cool how the facists considered communism 'subversive'. Fellini said that is was based loosely on his own teenage years.
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Summary: Brilliant in Places
Review: This is not a coherent or particularly complex portrait of fascism, as some would have you believe. It's a collection of childhood memories that TOUCH on and occasionally illustrate aspects of fascism. It's a clever idea for a movie; others had made similar films, but this one takes it "all the way" into being a disconnected series of memories, dream-like. Woody Allen's "Radio Days" and Spike Lee's "Crooklyn" would be two later films, both quite good, that follow a similar path. In places, the film is absolutely brilliant. For me, the series of scenes that show the boys jerking around in school and wasting their days are extremely briliant, subtle, and effective.
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Summary: My All Time Favourite. A Fellini's Masterpiece.
Review: I suspect this is one of those love or hate movies depending on whether or not it strikes an emotional cord within the viewer. To those used to such absolutes as plot and action it will be a bust. To those who love the David Lean directorial approach of each scene being a visual image that could stand alone, then this is a treat. I believe the title is Italian for I remember, and this is what the movie is. Fellini's reminscences of growing up in pre-war Italy. They are presented as a series of linked vignettes populated with an extravagant and eccentric collection of characters. Wonderfully evocative, lewd and bawdy, funny and sad, it's a languid walk through one man's memories. I don't collect movies but this is one I own and love to dip into once in a while. It's a treasure to be savoured when the world gets too heavy and we begin to take ourselves too seriously. I love it.
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Summary: some of the most awful dialogue in cinema history
Review: I'm a Fellini fan, yet I HATED this movie! Watching in disbelief, I could not believe that the director of The White Sheik, 8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria and Juliet of the Spirits (terrific films all) was perpetrating such a disgusting, meandering, pointless vulgar mess. It isn't about "memories," it's about having nothing to say. Holding the remote control in hand, I kept telling myself --it's going to get better, it's going to get better. Soon the real movie will begin. And you know what? It never did. I did see the subtitled version, yet I can't imagine what translation would benefit lines like "Teacher, may I be excused from class? Fazio has let a stinker," and so on and so on until we are senseless and numb. In this wretched film, Fellini revels in an obsession with flatulence that would make even Mel Brooks blush. YUCK!!! Preserve Fellini's reputation (in your own mind at least) by sparing yourself this sophomoric horror. I hate to be the one to say it, guys, but let's face it --even the first installment of Porky's was a less terrible film than this. Eeeeeaagh!!
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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: One of Fellini's best, most winning films. Uncle Teo is Everyman.
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