Amarcord (1974) - The Criterion Collection

Synopsis

In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini’s most personal film satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s enduring treasures.

Cast

Titta's mother	Pupella Maggio
Titta's father	Armando Brancia
Gradisca	Magali Noël
Uncle Teo	Ciccio Ingrassia
Uncle Lallo	Nando Orfei
The lawyer	Luigi Rossi
Titta	Bruno Zanin
Don Baravelli	Gianfilippo Carcano
Volpina	Josiane Tanzilli
The tobacconist	Maria Antonietta Beluzzi
Titta's grandfather	Giuseppe Ianigro

Credits

Director	Federico Fellini
Screenplay	Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Producer	Franco Cristaldi
Editing	Ruggero Mastroianni
Music	Nino Rota

Disc Features

SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:

All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke
American release trailer
Deleted scene
Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
New and improved English subtitle translation
New 45-minute documentary, Fellini’s Homecoming, on the complicated relationship between the celebrated director, his hometown, and his past
Video interview with star Magali Noël
Fellini’s drawings of characters in the film
“Felliniana,” a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord from the collection of Don Young
Audio interviews with Fellini, his friends, and family by Gideon Bachmann
New restoration demonstration
PLUS: A book featuring a new essay by scholar Sam Rohdie, author of Fellini Lexicon, and the full text of Fellini’s 1967 essay, “My Rimini"

From the Current

A Run on Amarcord!

Dec 17, 2008

Sellout crowds have caused New York's Film Forum to extend its run of the new Janus Films restoration of Amarcord for another six days, until December 23. So, New Yorkers, it's not too late to see this “fun-house tour through Fellini’s...

Press Notes: You Must Remember This . . .

Dec 9, 2008

Janus Films’ new 35 mm color restoration of Federico Fellini’s beloved reminiscence Amarcord has begun its nationwide tour and is reminding some critics of the director’s, shall we say, colorful sense of humor. “Kids, dogs, wisecracking...

Amarcord Hits the Road

Dec 2, 2008

Starting today, Federico Fellini’s enduring autobiographical Amarcord is back on the big screen, in a newly restored print from Janus Films, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno. After a two-week run at New York’s Film Forum, Fellini’s colorful portrait of life in his hometown...

When in Rome . . .

Oct 21, 2008

TECHNICOLOR, ROME—What a day! After spending the morning with Antonio Salvatori, the original color timer on Rosi’s The Moment of Truth and Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman, we were lucky enough to run into the great master Giuseppe Rotunno, who is supervising Janus's new print...

Amarcord: Federico of the Spirits

by Sam Rohdie Sep 4, 2006

Federico Fellini was born and brought up in Rimini, Italy, a small seaside town in the province of Emilia-Romagna. Amarcord is a neologism he contrived, which comes closest to the Emiliano-Romagnolo dialect phrase mi ricordo (I remember). Fellini, a great liar, denied this origin, claiming...

Amarcord

by Peter Bondanella Nov 22, 1999

Amarcord presents a scathing satirical critique of Italian provincial life during the 1930s, the height of the fascist period (1922–43). In this era, Mussolini’s dictatorship enjoyed its greatest popular support. While Fellini’s depiction of the provincial world under fascism provides a...