#FEDERICO FELLINI MOVIE#
There are a very high number of movie critics and historians who would argue that his "weird" period is the best of his career. Many of his fans, however, heartily and readily agree that his color films are important in recent times, some such as Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon, Rome, his version of Casanova, And the Ship Sails On, and Intervista are gaining stature as being the most mature works. At the time, most of them were dismissed by critics and several fans, his universally-loved semi-autobiographical masterpiece Amarcord being the exception. His career really took off with La Dolce Vita, a worldwide box-office hit.Īfter he switched to color in the mid-60's, Fellini stopped suppressing his imagination and made a bunch of "What on Earth is going on right now?" movies. His earlier films were more sober and realistic - Nights of Cabiria and La Strada - both starring his wife even received nominations for Oscars for Foreign Films. Eventually Fellini started directing films himself. Fellini worked with Rossellini on many major films, such as Paisan, and even acted in the controversial short film, The Miracle. When Roberto Rossellini cast Sordi against type in his serious film, Rome, Open City, he hired Fellini as a dialogue writer. He also owned a gag shop in Rome which allowed him to befriend many famous comedians such as Alberto Sordi. Before his career in movies, Fellini worked as a cartoonist, a writer for Italian photo-novels (called fumetti), which were comic-books with professionally shot photographs with models instead of panels. Strange, and yet highly sedate.īut above all, it is generally considered that Fellini is one of the more important filmmakers to come out of the neorealist movement, eventually abandoning those roots and moving into the world of movie artifice. Today, he's most likely known for his "Felliniesque" style, that is, magical realism, but not enough to qualify.
Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 31 October 1993) was a famous Italian filmmaker.