AMARCORD d: Federico Fellini

Amarcord (1973)
Direction: Federico Fellini
Screenplay: Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
Cast: Bruno Zanin, Magali Noël, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi, Gianfilippo Carcano, Josiane Tanzilli, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi , Giuseppe Ianigro, Ferruccio Brembilla
 

 

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Federico Fellini’s Amarcord has often been linked with Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny & Alexander as films made by old men looking back on their youth. While this is true, Amarcord has a loose narrative structure in which the lives of many characters are detailed in comic vignettes whereas Fanny & Alexander is a straight drama.
In fact, Amarcord shares a deeper affinity with another work that was obviously influenced by it: Woody Allen’s grossly underrated Radio Days. Which of [...]