TREASURES FROM THE ARCHIVES
Accident
Death in Venice
La Strada
Nights of Cabiria
Mon 16 Aug 12:15
Tue 17 Aug 11:30
Fellini’s 8½
Amarcord
1957 Stars Dirk Bogarde in a finely understated performance, in a collaboration between legendary director Joseph Losey and playwright Harold Pinter Screened in a rare 35mm print at Slindon Cinema. Full details of this film can be found on the Dirk Bogarde Centenary on pg75. Fri 20 Aug 20.30 (Slindon Cinema)
1954 Federico Fellini A care-free girl (Giulietta Masina) is sold to a travelling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
1963 Federico Fellini Probably Fellini’s most acclaimed work, ‘8½’ won two Oscars including Best Foreign Film. An autobiographical film about the trials and tribulations of film making. Wed 18 Aug 11:15
1971 While recovering in Venice, sickly Composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio in Visconti’s beautiful cinematic realisation of Thomas Mann’s novella. Full details of this film can be found on the Dirk Bogarde Centenary on pg76. Sat 21 Aug 11:30
1957 Federico Fellini A waifish prostitute (Giulietta Masina) wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
1974 Federico Fellini Fellini’s semi-autobiographical comedydrama about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the fictional town of Borgo (based on Fellini’s hometown of Rimini) in 1930s Fascist Italy. Screened in a rare 35mm print. Sun 22 Aug 11:30
Details of all four of the above Fellini classics are part of his retrospective to be found on pg54.
70 chichesterfilmfestival.co.uk
