Having danced around the subject in such films as I VITELLONI, director Federico Fellini finally addressed his childhood head-on in AMARCORD. In this documentary, friends who knew Fellini throughout his life discuss his complicated relationship with his hometown, Rimini, and the art that he creat...
Federico Fellini made this hour-long "documentary" for producer Peter Goldfarb and NBC in 1969. A meditation on his films-including those he had abandoned and those he had not yet made-it follows the path laid out by 8½ and leading to such later self-reflexive films as FELLINI'S ROMA and ORCHESTR...
For this 2000 documentary, Paquito Del Bosco was given total access to the RAI (Italian television) archives’ holdings of interviews with Federico Fellini. Italian film critic Tullio Kezich writes, “The project is a precious contribution to our understanding of the director and his genius.”
In this program, director Federico Fellini discusses his life and career.
In this final episode of “Second Look,” a four-part interview series Federico Fellini did on Belgian television in 1960, the director discusses LA DOLCE VITA and the scandal surrounding its release. Also interviewed, among others, are actors Yvonne Furneaux and Marcello Mastroianni, author Albert...
In this third episode of “Second Look,” a four-part interview series Federico Fellini did on Belgian television in 1960, the director, actor Giulietta Masina, and screenwriter and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini discuss LA STRADA and NIGHTS OF CABIRIA.
In this first episode of a four-part interview Federico Fellini did on the Belgian television program “Second Look” in 1960, the director discusses his early life and his career as a cartoonist before he began working in cinema.
This feature-length 2002 documentary by Damian Pettigrew’s tracks the life and career of director Federico Fellini through his often contradictory statements. As Fellini said in the quote that gives the documentary its title: “I’m a born liar. For me, the things that are the most real are the one...
Immediately preceding INTERVISTA, director Federico Fellini made GINGER AND FRED (1986). For that film, Fellini created a number of comically exaggerated television advertisements, but most ultimately went unused and unseen until they were presented in this 2003 collection for Italian television.
In this second episode of a four-part interview Federico Fellini did on the Belgian television program “Second Look” in 1960, the director discusses the sights of his hometown of Rimini—including the Grand Hotel, which features in I VITELLONI—as well as his early work with filmmaker Roberto Rosse...
This 1983 television program combines behind-the-scenes footage of the making of AND THE SHIP SAILS ON with extensive interview footage of director Federico Fellini to tell the story of the making of the film.
This 2000 documentary features extensive interviews with a late-in-life Federico Fellini looking back on his career.
One cinematic dream weaver pays homage to another in these shimmering, fantastical journeys through the unconscious mind. With his meta-cinematic landmark 8½, Federico Fellini fully embraced a delirious, stream-of-consciousness style in the autobiographical tale of a creatively frustrated film di...
Creative Marriages
Cinema’s great husband-and-wife carnival act, Italian maestro Federico Fellini and actress Giulietta Masina gave birth to a new form of filmic expression that blended earthy realism with extravagant flights of surrealist fancy. This double bill—two of the ten Fellini films tha...
Directed by Gideon Bachmann • 1970 • Italy
In this remarkable 1970 documentary, Gideon Bachmann captures Federico Fellini at work on the set of FELLINI SATYRICON.
Directed by Gideon Bachmann • 1970 • Italy
In this remarkable 1970 documentary, Gideon Bachmann captures Federico Fellini at work on the set of FELLINI SATYRICON.
A century after his birth, Federico Fellini still stands apart as a giant of the cinema. The Italian maestro is defined by his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. He began his career working in the slice-of-life poetry of neorealis...
Critic Michael Sragow explores the creative and personal relationship between two indispensable artists whose legacies are forever entwined.
Critic Gideon Bachmann was a friend and intellectual sparring partner of Federico Fellini’s for over thirty years. As a radio broadcaster and then a filmmaker, he interviewed Fellini and many of those who knew him at length. What resulted is an oral biography of the great director.
In this audio interview with Marcello Mastroianni, conducted circa 1963 by film historian Gideon Bachmann, the actor talks about how he met Federico Fellini and how his relationship with the director deepened over the years.
