#FEDERICO FELLINI BEST FILMS FULL#
After all, here was a 'vintage Fellini': the circus and the seashore, piazzas at night and open-air weddings, humor and compassion in a world that is often hostile and grotesque, yet magical and full of apparitions, of surprise, where laughter and melancholy are intermingled. “For quite I while I had been wanting to introduce my younger daughter to the cinema of Federico Fellini, and the obvious place to start seemed to be La Strada.
Part silent clown, part sophisticated child with a face that registers and magnifies every emotion, Masina's presence is one of the most magical in world cinema, and reason enough all by itself to make this revival worthwhile.” Though all are excellent, it is Masina.who is most memorable. Using the grit of neorealism to combat any excessive sentimentality, Fellini.fashioned a story that is very simple on one level and anything but on another.The acting by Basehart, Quinn and Masina defines La Strada. A melding of the neorealism in Fellini's past with the fable elements that were to dominate his future, La Strada is basically a three-character drama about the loneliness and the elusiveness of love. One of the indelible foreign films of the 1950s, it brought a kind of poetry to the screen that dazzled audiences at the time and still works today. The moon-faced Masina all but patented the adjective 'Chaplinesque' with her repertoire of cute frowns and alert smiles, hopeful eye-rolls and pantomimed wonder.” “A fable grounded in the elemental… the film that, for the rest of life, he held closest to his heart.” Hoberman’s column on LA STRADA in The New York Times. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Restored in 4K by the Criterion Collection and The Film Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna’s L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from a 35mm dupe negative preserved by Beta Film GmbH. An enormous international success and personal triumph for Masina, La Strada was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of its year. (1954) Bought from her mother to assist the act of Anthony Quinn’s brutish strongman “Zampanò,” Giulietta Masina’s simple-minded peasant girl Gelsomina is taught a haunting tune by a dreamy aerialist (American actor Richard Basehart) and assured that she too has a place in the world. Starring Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart Directed by Federico Fellini | Written by Fellini & Tullio Pinelli with Ennio FlaianoĬinematography by Otello Martinelli | Music by Nino Rota
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