SCHEDULE UPDATE: Due to an unexpected issue with the film print, Fellini’s I Vitelloni is replacing our previously announced screenings of Il Bidone.
Federico Fellini’s semiautobiographical classic vividly paints five young men driftingly lazily in their small seacoast village, spending their cash on booze and women, while daydreaming of different lives. A pivotal work in the director’s early career, I Vitelloni was an international success, winning the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion and earning a Best Screenplay nomination at the Academy Awards. In Italian with English subtitles.
“It was this ineffably poignant semiautobiographical reverie that unleashed fully Fellini’s shimmering, flowing poetic style.” – Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
“What stays fresh (and enhanced by the beautifully restored black- and-white print) is how so many of Fellini’s gifts and obsessions are already apparent in this early work.” – Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
