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La Strada (The Road), 1954: March 7, 3:30 p.m and March 12, 5:50 p.m.
The movie is a drama about a naive young girl (played by Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina) who is sold to a man in a coastal town in Italy.
La Dolce Vita (The sweet life); 1960, March 8, 3:30 p.m. and March 11, 5:30 p.m.
Set in Rome in the 1950s where Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) covers the more sensational side of the news; movie stars, religious visions, and the decadent aristocracy. The film shows seven days and nights in the life of the reporter. Marcello is living with Emma (Yvonne Furneaux), a woman who loves him and wants a traditional marriage, but she is possessive and shows little ability to understand his unarticulated search for value and meaning in his life. He has encounters with other women - Maddalena (Anouk Aimée), a beautiful, wealthy, and jaded friend/lover, and Anita Ekberg as an American movie star named Sylvia.
Amarcord; 1973: March 10, 3:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.
This is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy. It tells the story of a wild cast of characters in Fellini's home town of Rimini in 1930s Fascist pre-World War II Italy. Amarcord (a m'arcòrd) is Romagnolo for "I remember." Partly told through the eyes of the teen-aged protagonist, Titta, the film captures a backward community still living under Victorian emotions where unemployed teenagers dream about exotic beauties at the Grand Hotel, marry their high school sweethearts under Mussolini's staring eyes, fantasize about La Gradisca and Volpina (the town's object of lust and its nymphomaniac respectively), and row out onto the Adriatic Sea to hail the passage of the "Rex," a transatlantic steamer incarnating the technological prowess of Il Duce's regime.
Prova d'Orchestra (Orchestra rehersal); 1978: March 11, 3:30 p.m. and March 8, 5:30 p.m
It follows an Italian orchestra as the members go on strike against the conductor. This was the last collaboration between composer Nino Rota and Fellini. Rota passed awya in 1979.
Intervista (Interview); 1987: March 12, 3:30 p.m. and March 7, 5:30 p.m.
Once again, making a movie about making a movie, this film, too, enables Fellini to blur the line between documentary and fiction. Fellini, Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni appear as themselves as a (fictional) Japanese journalist arrives on the set to interview the cast. The camera takes the viewer behind the scenes as the set is prepared for a shot depicting a character based on the young Fellini, a journalist in Fascist Italy about to interview a local starlet. Seamlessly, the illusion takes over the realities of moviemaking, and the viewer is thrown into the scene itself.
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