After an early job as a caricature artist and writer for a humor magazine, by the mid-1940s, he was writing screenplays and working as an assistant director with Roberto Rossellini. The young Fellini was far more interested in drawing, puppetry, the circus, and the movies than in academic pursuits. A hundred years after his birth, Fellini’s films still enthrall with their baroque flamboyance, emotional resonance, and grand visual design. A central figure in the international art cinema movement that took off in the mid-1950s, he earned some of film’s highest honors, winning Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for La strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2, and Amarcord, and the Palme d’Or at Cannes for La dolce vita.
BAMPFA returns to the centennial tribute to Federico Fellini that was underway at the time of the COVID-19 closure in March 2020.įederico Fellini (1920–1993) was a masterful artist of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire.
