Three Film Segments by Fellini

Three Film Segments by Fellini

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Un amore in città (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale")
dir. Federico Fellini, Italy, 1953, digital, 16mins. b/w, in Italian w/ English subtitles
When a producer commissioned Fellini to make a non-fiction film to be part of a Neo-realist omnibus film project, Fellini wrote and directed this entirely fictional episode, claiming it was a true story. The producer watched it and asked Fellini, "Now do you see how reality is even more fantastic than the most unbelievable fantasy?"

Boccaccio '70 (segment "The Temptations of Doctor Antonio")
dir. Federico Fellini, Italy, 1962, digital, 60mins. color, in Italian w/ English subtitles
Fellini's La Dolce Vita so enraged some audiences, critics and clergy that one viewer actually spat in Federico's face! Fellini struck back with this outrageous, funny, sexy film that exposes the true nature of moralists.

Spirits of the Dead (segment "Toby Dammit")
dir. Federico Fellini, Italy, 1968, digital, 37mins. b/w, in Italian w/ English subtitles
Salvador Dali once said, "I do not take drugs; I am drugs!" You will feel the same about Federico Fellini after ingesting this highly concentrated, mind-altering, hallucinatory film. Wildly adapted from a story by Edgar Allen Poe, Toby Dammit is a gorgeous nightmare about the movie business that is hilarious, hellish and deadly accurate.