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Today Amarcord is “one of most beloved pictures,” in the words of Martin Scorsese, who also noted that it is one of director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s favorite films.
Gradisca (Magali Noël) and her friends in Amarcord (1973) Even if you did not know that Fellini based this film on his own life, or what “amarcord” means in English, the bright colors and narrative motif of characters telling stories give you the sense that you’re experiencing someone giving their childhood memories new life by turning them into indelible narratives. The title, which comes from the dialect of Fellini’s hometown of Rimini, means “I remember.” It’s a fitting one then for a film that is very much a collection of dramatized memories from the period of Fellini’s life when he grew up under Fascism in 1930s Italy. That genre is the semi-autobiographical childhood memory piece, or “memory piece” for short.įellini established this genre with Amarcord (1973), the winner of the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and the most beloved work of the latter portion of his career as a director. But Fellini deserves credit for creating, or at the very least popularizing, another autobiographical genre of cinema. Examples include but are not limited to Francois Truffaut’s Day for Night (1973), Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz (1979), and Pedro Almodóvar’s more recent film Pain and Glory (2018). His 1961 masterpiece 8 ½, which is about a director modeled on Fellini himself, led other filmmakers to make films about themselves. Federico Fellini is famous for inventing the “self-portrait” genre of filmmaking.