Cinema’s Casanova
Fellini

October 10 - November 9, 2013

Pera Film continues its masters of cinema series with the program Cinema’s Casanova: Fellini. Just like Casanova – Federico Fellini one of Italy’s great modern directors, was a larger-than-life maestro who created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique. Pera Film, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture in Istanbul and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents nine Fellini films commemorating 20 years since his death.

While his most popular—and accessible—film, the darkly nostalgic childhood memoir Amarcord, is a great entryway into his oeuvre whereas 8½, a collage of memories, dreams, and fantasies about a director’s artistic crisis, is perhaps his masterpiece. In his early career, Fellini was both a screenwriter for neorealist pioneer Roberto Rossellini and a newspaper caricaturist in postwar Rome, competing influences he would bring together with startling results. After such early works as I Vitelloni, Fellini broke away from neorealism’s political strictures with the beloved La strada, and from there boldly explored his obsessions with the circus, societal decadence, spiritual redemption, and, most controversially, women, in such films as Nights of Cabiria, Giulietta of the Spirits, and And the Ship Sails On.

The world-renowned Italian film director Federico Fellini was born in the seaside village of Rimini on January 20, 1920. He was the eldest of three children, and a keen observer of the characters of his small town upbringing. He left for Rome in 1938 and enrolled in university to avoid being drafted into the service. He left school and in the years prior to the outbreak of World War II he made his living as a cartoonist. He also began writing and acting in sketch comedy productions and radio programs with his good friend Aldo Fabrizi. During this time period he met his wife, the actress Giulietta Masina who became a great influence on his work. Another famous Italian director, Roberto Rossellini, wished to cast Fellini’s friend Fabrizi in one of his films and Fellini arranged their meeting. Through that contact he started work as an assistant scriptwriter and was given access to the inner workings of how films are created and edited, thus beginning his new career as a film director.

His career in cinema spanned five decades and he gained much critical acclaim. He won many awards including four Oscars in the Best Foreign Language category. His films offer a combination of themes including memory, dreams, fantasy and desire. They are often intimate looks at people at their most bizarre. The term "Felliniesque" is used when depicting an ordinary scene that has been altered by the addition of hallucinatory imagery. Filmmakers such as Woody Allen, David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar and Terry Gilliam have claimed to have been influenced in their work by Fellini.

Federico Fellini died of a heart attack the day after celebrating his 50th wedding anniversary with Giulietta on 31 October 1993 in Rome.

Screenings can be seen with a discounted museum ticket (5 TL). No reservations taken.

In collaboration

October 10

19:00 Rome

October 11

19:00 I Vitelloni

October 19

14:00 La Dolce Vita

17:30 Giulietta of the Spirits

October 26

13:00 The Temptation of Dr. Antonio

14:30 Ginger and Fred

17:00 Spirits of the Dead

October 27

13:00 The White Sheik

15:00 Spirits of the Dead

17:30 The Clowns

October 30

19:00 The White Sheik

November 1

19:00 Ginger and Fred

November 2

13:00 Giulietta of the Spirits

16:00 The Clowns

18:00 Rome

November 3

13:00 The Temptation of Dr. Antonio

14:30 La Dolce Vita

18:00 I Vitelloni

November 9

14:00 The Clowns

16:00 Rome

The White Sheik

The White Sheik

I Vitelloni

I Vitelloni

La Dolce Vita

La Dolce Vita

The Temptation of Dr. Antonio

The Temptation of Dr. Antonio

Giulietta of the Spirits

Giulietta of the Spirits

Spirits of the Dead

Spirits of the Dead

The Clowns

The Clowns

Rome

Rome

Ginger and Fred

Ginger and Fred

Program Trailer

Cinema’s Casanova
Fellini

Pera Film, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture in Istanbul and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents nine Fellini films commemorating 20 years since his death.

Paris Without End (1959-1965)

Paris Without End (1959-1965)

In the 60s, Alberto Giacometti paid homage to Paris, the city where he lived, by drawing its streets, cafés, and more private places like his studio and the apartment of his wife, Annette. These drawings would make up his last book, Paris sans fin (Paris Without End). 

A Carriage and a Squat House  <br>Liliana Maresca

A Carriage and a Squat House
Liliana Maresca

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Stefan Hablützel Look At Me!

Stefan Hablützel Look At Me!

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