Amarcord (#4)

Federico Fellini returned to the provincial landscape of his childhood with this carnivalesque reminiscence, recreating his hometown of Rimini in Cinecitts studios and rendering its daily life as a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge. Sketching a gallery of warmly observed comic caricatures, Fellini affectionately evokes a vanished world haloed with the glow of memory, even as he sends up authority figures representing church and state, satirizing a country stultified by Fascism. Winner of Fellinis fourth Academy Award for best foreign-language film,Amarcordremains one of the directors best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rottunos colorful cinematography, Danilo Donatis extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rotas nostalgia-tinged score.

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Film Info

• Italy
• 1973
• 123 minutes
• Color
• 1.85:1
• Italian
• Spine #4

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke
• American release trailer
• Deleted scene
• Fellinis Homecoming,a forty-five-minute documentary on the complicated relationship between the celebrated director, his hometown, and his past
• Interview with star Magali Nol
• Fellinis drawings of characters in the film
• Felliniana,a presentation of ephemera devoted toAmarcord,from the collection of Don Young
• Archival audio interviews of Fellini and his friends and family, by critic Gideon Bachmann
• Restoration demonstration
• Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
• PLUS: An essay by scholar Sam Rohdie, author ofFellini Lexicon,and Fellinis 1967 essay My Rimini

  Cover illustration by Caitlin Kuhwald, design by Eric Skillman