Excellent overview of Fellinis’s work! “It is not memory that dominates my films. To say that my films are autobiographical is an overly facile liquidation, a hasty classification. It seems to me that I have invented almost everything: Childhood, characters, nostalgia, dreams, memories, for the pleasure of being able to recount them.” Fellini
One of the best directors who managed to create memories and characters so vividly that I appreciate and admire with each viewing of his films. Great take on Fellini`s body of work which is timeless, memorable and facsinating as life itself.
I Vitelloni is maybe my favorite film! Saw it first on PBS as a child in the early '80s and it was haunting even though I vaguely understood the story. Than later viewings revealed it to me as the ultimate "coming of age" story for guys that is ageless- the last year in your hometown when you realize you have to grow up and move out or stay stuck forever. Some of your friends may stay but what are YOU gonna do? Its the blueprint for every teen flick post World War 2 based on Fellini's last year in Remini, Italy.
Pure magic. True genius. What can be said that hasn't already been said. Nonetheless Fellini not only defines and redefines Italian cinema 📽️🎥 but changes the world of cinema.And who knows maybe changes the world a little bit. His introspection seamlessly projected onto a subtle extroverted screen display.A cartoon. A human circus. Fellini the circus magician. The maestro. Also thank you for your excellent analysis and spot on reflections on the art and career of The Most Italian of Directors. (Whatever that truly means) thank you.
Great analysis of one of our greatest directors! By the way, since the title of the video is about memory, I want to share a little thing that maybe many non-italian Fellini fans don't know: "Amarcord" is dialect (the dialect from the area Fellini was, the same area where Amarcord is set) for "I remember".
Photography can capture a single moment so perfectly. Many great film directors are photographers... they capture a series of moving moments. There is intrinsic beauty to each and every shot they produce. It is what cinephiles crave... the beauty of the photography of the moving image. Which is partly why cinema is the greatest art form. It binds the eye, the ear and the heart into one whole experience. Yet most, if not all of cinema fails as a complete entity. Every great film masters one or two aspects of the art form...but falls short in the others. Pushing away your own nostalgia, or sense of self-worth because of your relationship to it. Each film is only cherished because of a collection of single moments. The cinephiles love of cinema... is the love of something implicitly imperfect.
Beautifully done. I'm a gay man of 72 years whose first exposure to Fellini was 8 1/2 when I was 10 years old. It scared me so badly, I couldn't face another of his films, Juliet of the Spirits, until my college years. I've been in love with him ever since. My favorite director alongside Kubrick. Your appreciation is glorious. Thank you so much!
I was born in Rimini too. I considered Fellini as a mythical grandfather and used to go walking on the beach by the hotel he retired to when he was sick and dying, thinking about what he showed in his films and how I looked at the world afterwards. If you want to hear how the name of the city is pronounced correctly watch Indian Summer (L’ultima notte di quiete) by director Valerio Zurlini. In the first sequence shot on location Alain Delon tells a lost British couple on a boat where they are. RIP Alain Delon. This is a better video essay than many out there in English.
No, I just decided that we need to improve the landscape of the internet by creating more good stuff for it. If that's the case, it's just a matter of working harder without sacrificing quality or integrity. I've started a new video and that will be out next week. Thanks for noticing though. - Lewis
you should not have used "that" shot for the thumbnail. it is like using the last shot of 400 blows. it definitely would lessen the effect of the scene for the first timers.
I thought I didn't understand Fellini because I never liked his films. Strange thing is, I understand him exactly the way you describe his methods and approaches, and those are all things I really dislike about his movies. Which means I actually understood him quite well
IMHO Fellini is an acquired taste. For some of his films, like Satyricon, City of Women, Amarcord... you have to be in the right mood. Others are timeless, instantaneous classics, like 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, La Strada...that you can see anywhere, anytime and it's magic. Just a thought.
Psychologically the artist is an offender, he has a childish need to offend. So....I wonder, what if Fellini were alive today? How would he fit in? Who would he offend? The WOKE mob? Or would he kowtow to the MOB and take the easy way out by offending almost everyone else? The problem is, there's really no one left to offend. Except maybe a few certain groups that seem to be off limits. I wonder, what would Fellini do with his childish need to offend? We'll never know.
Italian here. The translation isn't great there. The word used isn't offnedere (to offend ) but trasgedire (transgress), meaning breaking rules. I don't know what he would do today but i know it basically was the woke mob at the time. He poked fun at chatolicism and the church (and they got really offened) and the self appointed intellectuals who only cite great works of the past (as we see in amarcord). Think about the right outrage at the lust supper in paris olympic ceremony and how dragqueens in a religious context match with Fellini style.
Bad translation choice: it’s transgression not offense that he endorsed. When something is established as a rule and that rule is enforced and disappear and it becomes reality, the transgression is the only saving grace left to those who are aware of the power systems. You need to know intimately how a totalitarian regime works to understand how vital transgression becomes.
@ You must be right, of course. The sheer volume of stuff being dropped on to the plates made me think I was watching an unreal situation, which put cheese out of my mind for some reason. Anyway, thanks for taking time to reply.
Excellent overview of Fellinis’s work! “It is not memory that dominates my films. To say that my films are autobiographical is an overly facile liquidation, a hasty classification. It seems to me that I have invented almost everything: Childhood, characters, nostalgia, dreams, memories, for the pleasure of being able to recount them.” Fellini
One of the best directors who managed to create memories and characters so vividly that I appreciate and admire with each viewing of his films. Great take on Fellini`s body of work which is timeless, memorable and facsinating as life itself.
Amarcord is like a display of Proustian prose. Few filmmakers have managed to achieve memories so vivid on film, between reality and dream.
I Vitelloni is maybe my favorite film! Saw it first on PBS as a child in the early '80s and it was haunting even though I vaguely understood the story. Than later viewings revealed it to me as the ultimate "coming of age" story for guys that is ageless- the last year in your hometown when you realize you have to grow up and move out or stay stuck forever. Some of your friends may stay but what are YOU gonna do? Its the blueprint for every teen flick post World War 2 based on Fellini's last year in Remini, Italy.
Pure magic. True genius. What can be said that hasn't already been said. Nonetheless Fellini not only defines and redefines Italian cinema 📽️🎥 but changes the world of cinema.And who knows maybe changes the world a little bit. His introspection seamlessly projected onto a subtle extroverted screen display.A cartoon. A human circus. Fellini the circus magician. The maestro. Also thank you for your excellent analysis and spot on reflections on the art and career of The Most Italian of Directors. (Whatever that truly means) thank you.
Man, i'm so happy to see you back. We missed you
😲🥰🥳❤ In my top 3 filmmakers of all time, with Kubrick & Kurosawa.
Great analysis of one of our greatest directors!
By the way, since the title of the video is about memory, I want to share a little thing that maybe many non-italian Fellini fans don't know: "Amarcord" is dialect (the dialect from the area Fellini was, the same area where Amarcord is set) for "I remember".
Photography can capture a single moment so perfectly. Many great film directors are photographers... they capture a series of moving moments.
There is intrinsic beauty to each and every shot they produce. It is what cinephiles crave... the beauty of the photography of the moving image.
Which is partly why cinema is the greatest art form. It binds the eye, the ear and the heart into one whole experience.
Yet most, if not all of cinema fails as a complete entity. Every great film masters one or two aspects of the art form...but falls short in the others.
Pushing away your own nostalgia, or sense of self-worth because of your relationship to it. Each film is only cherished because of a collection of single moments.
The cinephiles love of cinema... is the love of something implicitly imperfect.
Well said.
i been waiting for this
Beautifully done. I'm a gay man of 72 years whose first exposure to Fellini was 8 1/2 when I was 10 years old. It scared me so badly, I couldn't face another of his films, Juliet of the Spirits, until my college years. I've been in love with him ever since. My favorite director alongside Kubrick. Your appreciation is glorious. Thank you so much!
Why’d you mention that you were gay?
What a wonderful essay!
Thank you.
Fellini makes life worth living.
my family is from Rimini as well and he captures it's chaotic party atmosphere of the dolce vita era of the city very well
La Dolce Vita is my favorite film
Nights of Cabria is my favorite movie ever. What a stellar filmmaker.
The greatest. Fellini IS a miracle. Divine art. Religious, mystical experience.
How true! Fellini is a miracle. Thank you for this idea.
I had the unbelievable fortune of experiencing Amarcord as my first foreign film in high school. It gave me new eyes to see.
I've been waiting for this quite a while! Thank you!
Oh Guido! Seems like folks have forgotten him. Thanks for remembering.
I was born in Rimini too. I considered Fellini as a mythical grandfather and used to go walking on the beach by the hotel he retired to when he was sick and dying, thinking about what he showed in his films and how I looked at the world afterwards. If you want to hear how the name of the city is pronounced correctly watch Indian Summer (L’ultima notte di quiete) by director Valerio Zurlini. In the first sequence shot on location Alain Delon tells a lost British couple on a boat where they are. RIP Alain Delon. This is a better video essay than many out there in English.
I found the clip on TH-cam (not the original edit but you hear the name immediately) th-cam.com/video/ZkczOaZGU2U/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Wonderfully done video in terms of editing, with many insights in the narration. One tiny point. The name is pronounced MarCHello Mastroianni.
He was century further then the rest ... Best of the best
Thanks
Fellini 😍😍😍
Excellent work - well done 👏🏻
this is awesome. i have never heard of this director before. i am totally gonna look into this. well done video.
Can't believe gege fumbled the ending of JJK that bad, but yeah where were we, oh yeah, Fellini is a master of his craft!
LMAOOOOO
Bravo! Feast. Fiesta. Feeling. Fellini.
thankyou for this ❤
Well done. EXCELLENT.
Bravo 👏👀 Bravo 👏👀 Bravo 👏👀 We can forgive you now for leaving him off the list 🙏🌞
Incredibly impressive how you’ve been able to release three of these videos in under a month. Have you been working on them for a while?
No, I just decided that we need to improve the landscape of the internet by creating more good stuff for it. If that's the case, it's just a matter of working harder without sacrificing quality or integrity. I've started a new video and that will be out next week. Thanks for noticing though.
- Lewis
@@TheCinemaCartography thank you so much for keeping it real!
I miss school so much 😢
Bravo.
Does anyone know what 16:09 is from?
Fellini, mon amour ❤❤❤❤❤
bravo
Film is literature...
I love Italian film...
La Strada
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
RIM-in-i
REEM-in-ee. An Italian beauty emphasized the pronunciation just like that to me at a Fellini film festival.
@@spinsandneedles correct
REE-mee-née
you should not have used "that" shot for the thumbnail. it is like using the last shot of 400 blows. it definitely would lessen the effect of the scene for the first timers.
👋👋👍❤
Never watched this series with so many ads.
It makes it hard to concentrate.
I think those are just TH-cam's forced ads, not ads they've chosen to have during this video.
Brave browser. No ads
Eh um beh?
Greatest film ever made is 'La Strada.' Perhaps after that period a little pretentious a bit squishy & meaningless but, almost, always great value?
I thought I didn't understand Fellini because I never liked his films. Strange thing is, I understand him exactly the way you describe his methods and approaches, and those are all things I really dislike about his movies. Which means I actually understood him quite well
IMHO Fellini is an acquired taste. For some of his films, like Satyricon, City of Women, Amarcord... you have to be in the right mood.
Others are timeless, instantaneous classics, like 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, La Strada...that you can see anywhere, anytime and it's magic.
Just a thought.
@@c.a.savage5689 well, I didn't see magic in 8 1/2 and Dolce Vita. I saw poor screenplay and repulsive characters. Sorry.
@@DimageSapelkin
あなたの貧しい感性と不快な品性？
ごめんなさい😂
Psychologically the artist is an offender, he has a childish need to offend.
So....I wonder, what if Fellini were alive today?
How would he fit in? Who would he offend?
The WOKE mob?
Or would he kowtow to the MOB and take the easy way out by offending almost everyone else?
The problem is, there's really no one left to offend. Except maybe a few certain groups that seem to be off limits.
I wonder, what would Fellini do with his childish need to offend? We'll never know.
City of Women is far more interesting now considering the landscape than when it first came out
Italian here. The translation isn't great there. The word used isn't offnedere (to offend ) but trasgedire (transgress), meaning breaking rules. I don't know what he would do today but i know it basically was the woke mob at the time. He poked fun at chatolicism and the church (and they got really offened) and the self appointed intellectuals who only cite great works of the past (as we see in amarcord). Think about the right outrage at the lust supper in paris olympic ceremony and how dragqueens in a religious context match with Fellini style.
Bad translation choice: it’s transgression not offense that he endorsed. When something is established as a rule and that rule is enforced and disappear and it becomes reality, the transgression is the only saving grace left to those who are aware of the power systems. You need to know intimately how a totalitarian regime works to understand how vital transgression becomes.
Well done. Good luck with your film studies GCSE👍🏻
8:00 Is that salt??
I think it's grated cheese but it could be salt
@ You must be right, of course. The sheer volume of stuff being dropped on to the plates made me think I was watching an unreal situation, which put cheese out of my mind for some reason. Anyway, thanks for taking time to reply.