New York’s leading movie house for independent premieres and repertory programming
A nonprofit cinema since 1970
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New York’s leading movie house for independent premieres and repertory programming
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“It could be said
that much of American cinema, at least in the last 30 years or so, comes
out of I VITELLONI...Without Fellini’s sweet, lyrical story
of a group of young men drifting aimlessly toward 30, we would probably
not have American Graffiti or Mean Streets or Diner...
It shows all of Fellini’s unrivaled virtues — his lyrical
sense of place, his abiding affection for even the most hapless of his
characters, his effortless knack for limpid, bustling composition.” (1953) Federico Fellini’s first international success, based on memories of his youth in Rimini, focuses on five layabouts in a sleepy seaside town during the winter offseason (the title literally means “The Calfs,” which Pauline Kael roughly translated as “Adolescent Slobs”). Skirtchaser Franco Fabrizi is forced into marriage, but he still has eyes for his boss’s wife (Czech actress Lída Baarová, one-time mistress of Goebbels); would-be poet Leopoldo Trieste (hapless star of Fellini’s The White Sheik) at last gets to read his poetry to the aged actor he idolizes — but instead gets a proposition; buffoon Alberto Sordi (The White Sheik himself), costumed as a woman for a masked ball, begs his sister not to leave; Fellini’s look-alike brother Riccardo croons and emcees at a seaside beauty pageant that’s interrupted by a storm; only the youngest, Shoeshine’s Franco Interlenghi (standing in for Fellini himself), will get out. Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and recipient of a then-rare Oscar nomination for a foreign screenplay — by Fellini and frequent collaborators Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinnelli — and featuring the second of Nino Rota’s 16 memorable Fellini scores. The director’s “first fully confident piece of direction” (Kael), its style and story of aimless youth inspired, among others, George Lucas’s American Graffiti and Scorsese’s Mean Streets. “I Vitelloni captures the bittersweet emotions of a moment that eventually comes for everyone: the moment you realize you can either grow up, or stay forever a child.” – Martin Scorsese. Approx. 103 min. A CORINTH FILMS PRESENTATION RELEASED BY KINO INTERNATIONAL Return to ALBERTO SORDI Series Related Links:
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