Amarcord (1973)
In this movie Fellini portrays his home town of Rimini as he remembered it in '30s, during his young days... (imdb)
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Directed By: Federico Fellini
Written By: Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
Starring: Ciccio Ingrassia, Magali Noël, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Bruno Zanin, Gianfilippo Carcano, Luigi Rossi, Josiane Tanzilli, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, Giuseppe Ianigro, Nando Orfei, Ferruccio Brembilla
AKA: I Remember
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MartinTeller | 17 1st |
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Lusty teenagers trying to score. An elderly man boasts of his sexual prowess. Exaggerated (one might say "bad") acting. Big close-ups of breasts and bottoms. Obscene gestures. Urination jokes. Masturbation jokes. Fart jokes. Is it the latest installment in the Porky's series? No, it's just dumb ol' Amarcord. Fellini presents a series of anecdotes that are neither amusing nor charming, nor particularly interesting.
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CCLZA | 90 95th |
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The mother of all interlocking movies. Fascinating in all the different stories, Fellini manages to portrait a town and make it seem like the viewer also lived in it. Nostalgic is the best word to describe this amazing movie.
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Moribunny | 80 91st |
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I actually prefer Fellini's more straightforward 1950s movies to these later ones, but the originality and audacity of a film like Amarcord is unquestionable. As its name suggests, this movie is essentially its author's memories put to celluloid. In a way that is typical of memories - not a memoir or diary but memories - they are haphazard, disordered, and not necessarily sharp or accurate. But Fellini succeeds in relating these particular memories in all the power that they have for him.
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PeaceAnarchy | 34 2nd |
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By turns dull, disgusting and juvenile. If anyone ever says Fellini's just high brow artsy stuff you can show them this because the humor is as low-brow as it gets: Fart jokes, sex jokes, really jokes about any kind of bodily functions permeate the entire movie and not a single one is worth even a chuckle. As for the the rest of the movie's content it's weak, disjointed and boring and, frankly, at times insulting. The photography is the only good thing here, but even that's only above average.
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febraro | 35 5th |
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It got me bored out of my mind, and then BOOBS, and then bored out of my mind again.
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Luna6ix | 85 89th |
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for a movie with almost no cohesive plot, this one hit the nail right on the head. an absolutely stunning piece of work, beautiful, well acted, written, and the direction is paramount. i almost think that if this did have a traditional plot it might not be as good as it is now, and it is good.
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| 3 | DavidThomson | 35 18th |
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Americans specially loved Amarcord. Compared with American films of the mid-1970s, it was so optimistic, so serene in believing that all things shall pass. Thew word amarcords means "I remember," but the mood of the film is more that of someone saying "I wonder," trying to forget harsh times or ugly truths. Fellini was once a real social observer and storyteller. Here he is a mere collector of material. It is startlingly devoid of drama or self-criticism. And it begins to look very old-fashioned
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wayofthegun | 60 21st |
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Several vignettes involving different stories in an Italian town that ultimately amount to nothing.
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Pickpocket | 8 82nd |
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I WANT A WOMAN
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Alex Watkins | 3 38th |
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I don't begrudge an occasional fart joke, but jeez, Fellini, ease up a bit, maybe? That aside, it's usually a pretty charming look at adolescence, playing out in episodic form (some episodes stronger than others), that coalesces into a pretty effective coming-of-age tale. I can't think of many films that think with their dicks as much as this one does. And damn if Fellini can't make Italy look every bit as purty as I've always thought it to be.
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| 2 | bob thrillin | 72 50th |
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The last half hour is great, but the rest is bogged down by toilet humor and boring teenage jackassery to be truly engaging. The lack of a unifying plot or vignette is also quite frustrating, and leaves the film rather underwhelming as a whole.
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Nathan S | 5 93rd |
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Anecdotal coming-of-age story heightened by an exaggerated sense of nostalgia, giving it an amusing cartoon quality. Fellini is notorious for his indulgence, but in this case there's nothing pretentious about it. How can it be, with so many sex gags and fart jokes? High comedy this ain't, but Fellini treats it with personal affection.
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KasperL | 50 30th |
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Not recommended if you are the least bit tired or if you believe that a plot is a bare necessity. In fact, I'm not sure that I would recommend this to anybody who's not already a fan of Fellini's. To those interested in checking out his oeuvre, I would say that 'La Strada' and 'La dolce vita' would be the best place to start.
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Eldred08 | 90 81st |
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Voglio una donaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Voglio una donaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Voglio una donaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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lauratron | 75 53rd |
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A bit too bawdy for my liking and also felt rather long; a decent film though.
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AshWilliams | 96 98th |
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One of my favorite films of all time. Fellini said it was about the eternal adolescence in Italy, and certainly with the lusty scenes and juvenile humor, that's about right. But it's mostly about memory -- how we remember people and places. This story unfolds the way your imagination does when someone tells you a story -- things are a bit exaggerated but it all makes sense. This film is one of the reasons why Fellini was born for the cinema and stands above many other filmmakers.
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empiremag | 4 71st |
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"This veers from the heartfelt to the satirical, the scathing to the loving, the funny to the melancholy - in short, it's everything that great cinema should be."
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katje_ | 90 95th |
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A great celebration of all things that are alive, touching and visually charming. Slow paced if you're not used to Fellini, though. This is easily better than 8 1/2 to me.
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Henrik | 90 96th |
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It's beautifully nostalgic but Fellini goes for the throat as he satirizes Italy's fascist past, a ludicrous, hypocritical Catholic Church and a nation in perpetual adolescence. The interlocking ensemble is effortlessly handled with an immense elegance, and especially the scenes with the family are funny as hell. Woody Allen's "Radio Times", and perhaps every other childhood memoir film since, owes a great deal to this masterpiece.
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smviper00 | 10 2nd |
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Boring. Pointless by design is worse than accidentally pointless.
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filmfreak88 | 80 78th |
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It's ultimately too episodic and fractured to be thoroughly engaging, but my initial disinterest in the characters' antics slowly gave way to admiration for this very personal film's warmth, charm, and playful nostalgia.
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shalev | 60 4th |
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A bunch of morons making fart jokes and yelling at each other. The score is lovely but it can't redeem this.
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It's been some time since I've seen this film, and I'm afraid that a re-watch will diminish the joy I felt on my first viewing.
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Alon Reter | 50 33rd |
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Feels like a cheap version of Fellini's magic.
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lisa- | 4 52nd |
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fellini seems to be saying that the hedonistic nature of italitan society at the time, particularly their sexual libertinism, was partly to blame for the rise of fascism. recalls pasolini a touch, but one has to wonder whether this lustrous illustriousness was a reality, or simply a myth made by our moviemakers. some very strange sequences, but they don't all work, and the film doesn't make too much sense as a whole. great music as usual.
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anilscn | 40 29th |
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Women are not sex object. They've mind and emotions. This is the biggest problem in whole movie, but not just this. also there are so many basic party scenes, overacting, cartoonish characters and nonsense moments...
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| Average Percentile 69.08% from 1766 Ratings |  |