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From 20th – 24th January the Aero Cinema will hold a festival entitled Federico Fellini 90. A select community of actors and actresses - Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anthony Quinn, Anouk Aimée and Anita Ekberg – will come to the Aero Cinema to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the birth of this Italian film-making legend.
- 21. January 2010
- František Sládek, Portal Editorial Staff
As a birthday present and as a tribute to the world-renowned artist the Aero Cinema has prepared a retrospective review of the twelve most significant films by Fellini. Thus, after eight years, the Aero screen will be alive with the world of the circus, clowns, carnivals and the Italian elite, through the life of ebullient Rome and that of sleepy small-town Italy.
An incomparable classic
Federico Fellini is one of the classics of world cinematography. Despite this, the only Fellini film to reach Czech distribution in recent years was the film La Dolce Vita. It is therefore a good thing that, on the anniversary of his birth, the organizers of the review have managed to bring to Prague his most important films. With the exception of two of these, Aero Cinema will screen the films from classic film copies.
La Strada, 8 ½, Satyricon and others
The opening film in the review, on Wednesday 20th January, will be La Strada, one of Fellini’s Oscar-winning films. Fellini’s wife, Giulieta Masina, appeared in this film as well as another six of his films.
A day later film 8 ½ will be shown. This is generally regarded as Fellini’s best work. It presents Marcello Mastroianni in the lead role as a film director, which embodies many autobiographical elements and a considerable dose of self-criticism by the director himself. Prague cinema-goers will further be able to see the films Amarcord and Juliet of the Spirits – Fellini’s first colour film. On Saturday 23rd January the film on offer is Satyricon – an epic film which is exceptional in that its action doesn’t take place in present time, but in the past – in Ancient Rome.
The festival closes on Sunday 24th January with what must be Fellini’s best known film, La Dolce Vita from 1960, in which Mastroianni plays the role of a reporter. On its first screening in Milan the film caused a big scandal, especially in the Catholic Church. However, it then went on to receive the Golden Palm in Cannes and an Oscar for Best Non-English film and became a box-office hit. Several scenes from the film have written themselves ineffaceably into the history of cinematography. Who, for example, cannot recall Marcello’s night-time extempore in the Trevi fountain with the American sexbomb Sylvia, played by Anita Ekberg.
The festival also includes the following films: Nights of Cabiria, And the ship sails on, Orchestra Rehearsal, Ginger and Fred, Roma and White Sheik.
Programme:
20th Jan.
- 6pm - Nights of Cabiria
- 8.30pm – La Strada
21st Jan.
- 6pm - And the ship sails on
- 8.30pm - 8 1/2
22nd Jan.
- 5.30pm – Orchestra Rehearsal
- 7pm - Amarcord
- 9.30pm – Juliet of the Spirits
23rd Jan.
- 4.30pm - Ginger and Fred
- 7pm - Roma
- 9.30pm - Satyricon
24th Jan.
- 5pm – White Sheik
- 7pm - La Dolce Vita
Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Prague 3
Tel.: 271 771 349, 608 33 00 88
Further info:
kino_aero_91_fellini_letak_nahled.pdf
http://www.kinoaero.cz/
Source: www.praha.eu
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