Italy on Monday feted late film
maestro Federico Fellini on the anniversary of his birth.
There will be thousands of events across the country to
recall the director of La Dolce Vita and Eight and a Half,
Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said.
"One hundred years ago, on January 20, 1920, Federico Fellini
was born in Rimini, a giant in cinema history who marked this
art with his talent, oneiric verve and hard work", Franceschini
said.
"All over the world auteurs, directors, actors and public
continue to admire and draw inspiration from his work, capable
of shaping the collective imagination".
Fellini, one of Italy's greatest ever film directors, died
on 31 October, 1993, at the age of 73.
Known for a unique style blending fantasy and baroque images
with earthiness, he is recognized as one of the greatest and
most influential filmmakers of all time.
His films have ranked, in polls such as Cahiers du cinéma and
Sight & Sound, as some of the greatest films of all time.
Sight & Sound lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest
film of all time.
In a career spanning almost fifty years, Fellini won the
Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita, was nominated for twelve Academy
Awards and won four in the category of Best Foreign Language
Film, the most for any director in the history of the Academy.
At the 65th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, he received
an honorary award for Lifetime Achievement.
Besides La Dolce Vita and 8½, his other well-known films
include La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits,
Satyricon, Amarcord and Fellini's Casanova.
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