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Scott and Manohla Dargis, selected their favorite movies of the year. He loved processions and costumes and circus parades because the bizarre could literally walk into town and take over. They can be as darkly funny as the town rally before a giant face of Mussolini, made of pink flowers, in 'Amarcord,' his warm 1973 memoir of life in a village much like the one where Fellini grew up.

Such moments can be as symbolic and enigmatic as the giant statue of Christ that hovers over the opening scene of 'La Dolce Vita,' his 1960 film about jet-set decadence in Rome. In a Felliniesque scene, some colorful, extravagant, inappropriate element invades the flatness of ordinary life. And he was not a surrealist, encouraging his imagination to romp among the absurd.

It describes that moment when you walk headlong into a scene so strange you think you're hallucinating then it turns out to be real.įellini did not trade in the physically impossible he was no magical realist. But even people who have never sat through an entire film by Federico Fellini, who died last week at the age of 73, know the meaning of Felliniesque. Very few film makers have created a landscape so distinct that the director's name has become a generic term. The one word that came to mind was Felliniesque. Altar boys in red-and-white costumes were heading toward me carrying large candles behind them men carried a large statue of the Blessed Virgin on their shoulders on this gentrified street people were singing in Latin. Wins 29th Academy Awards, 1956 Best Foreign Language Film - La Strada (representing Italy) 30th Academy Awards, 1957 Best Foreign Language Film - Nights of Cabiria (representing Italy) 36th Academy Awards, 1963 Best Foreign Language Film - Federico Fellini's 8½ 48th Academy Awards, 1975 Best Foreign Language Film - Amarcord (representing Italy) Special and Honorary Awards 65th Academy Awards, 1992 In recognition of his place as one of the screen's master storytellers.In a section of New York where an old Italian neighborhood intersected art galleries and chi-chi restaurants, I once turned a corner and walked into the middle of a religious procession. He won five Academy Awards, becoming the person who won the highest number of Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film in history. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century, and is widely revered.

Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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