FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE

The 100 year celebration of Federico Fellini at the Historic Camelot Theatre continues in 2023! The Palm Springs Cultural Center's Fellini Retrospective is the latest stop of Fellini 100 Tour, a worldwide tribute to Fellini's centennial featuring exhibitions by major museums and film institutes, coordinated by Luce Cinecittà.

One of the most influential directors of the 20th century, Fellini’s films are known for their surreal, dream-like imagery and eccentric characters, often combining a playful carnival-like atmosphere with biting social critique. Fellini’s body of work has inspired several generations of directors including Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola and Pedro Almodóvar.

Come early and mingle while enjoying Italian food and Drink Specials starting at 6:00 pm. Film Screens at 7:00 pm.

2022 Screenings included: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord, La Strada, and 8 1/2

Feb 3: ROMA

As a young man, Fellini (Peter Gonzales) leaves his small Italian town to go to the big city of Rome, live in a boarding house and cavort with the natives in the 1930s and '40s. In an alternating storyline, the older Fellini (Federico Fellini) goes back to make a movie about Rome, filming things like traffic jams at the Colosseum and the subway system, which hides underground crypts. By inter-cutting this footage, Fellini the director draws comparisons to the old Rome and the new.

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March 3: JULIET OF THE SPIRITS

Middle-aged Giulietta (Giulietta Masina) grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio (Mario Pisu), when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

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April 7: I VITELLONI

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto (Alberto Sordi) is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo (Franco Interlenghi) fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo (Leopoldo Trieste) is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

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June 2: FELLINI'S CASANOVA

The incomparable Federico Fellini directs the visually stunning portrait of Casanova, the infamous Italian womanizer, adventurer, author and libertine. In a remarkable performance, Donald Sutherland portrays the great seducer not as an amorous anomaly, but an everyday man living in extraordinary times. Featuring dazzling European settings (although it was filmed entirely in Rome), an unforgettable musical score and Academy Award-winning costumes, Fellini's Casanova is a cinematic experience to fall in love with.

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July 7: NIGHTS OF CABIRIA

The magnificent Giulietta Masina (Fellini's wife) plays an eternally optimistic Rome streetwalker with a heart of gold and a head of cotton candy in her husband's Oscar-winning masterpiece. This funny, poignant classic inspired the musical "Sweet Charity" and is a must-see for Fellini fans.

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August 4: FELLINI SATYRICON

After his young lover, Gitone (Max Born), leaves him for another man, Encolpio (Martin Potter) decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another. He's invited to a poetry reading that ends in violence; is taken hostage by pirates; and is even forced to battle a gladiator disguised as a minotaur in a giant labyrinth.

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September 1: IL BIDONE

One day Augusto, a petty confidence man, meets his 18-year-old daughter, Patrizia, an enthusiastic student with bright hopes for the future. His paternal feelings aroused, he takes her to a movie, but ends up being shamed when one of his victims identifies him and he is arrested before Patrizia's eyes. Upon his release from prison, Augusto assembles a new crew of con men, then tries to cheat them in order to gain money to help his daughter obtain a job. The other men discover Augusto's duplicity and viciously attack him. Left alone through the night, Augusto dies in anguish.

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Oct. 6: AND THE SHIP SAILS ON

In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua (Janet Suzman) near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.

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Nov. 3: CITY OF WOMEN

This surreal exploration of male and female sexuality follows Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni), an Italian train passenger who pursues a beautiful woman. Trailing the lovely lady through a forest, Snaporaz ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference. He soon realizes that he is an unwelcome presence and must evade hostile women, with some aid provided by the seemingly kind Donatella (Donatella Damiani). Can Snaporaz escape this strange ultra-feminine reality?

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Dec. 1: THE WHITE SHEIK

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda (Brunella Bovo) and Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste) embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi). While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.

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