Movie: Sept 22 – Amarcord

From the United Theatre: Federico Fellini returned to the provincial landscape of his childhood with this carnivalesque reminiscence, recreating his hometown of Rimini in Cinecittà’s studios and rendering its daily life as a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge.  Wikipedia summarizes the movie as the of tale about an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in a village near the ancient walls of Rimini in 1930s Fascist Italy.

• The movie was originally released in Italy in 1973, and released in the US in 1975
• In 1975 the movie was rated R and won the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
• The original release is in Italian with English subtitles
• The movie runs approximately 2 hrs
• Details and a trailer can be found here on IMDb.com.
• Additional information on the movie can be found here on Wikipedia.
• A link to the theater listing is HERE

This movie is rated “R”.  Please review the links provided for IMDB and/or Wikipedia above for specifics on the rating.

As part of the United Rewind Series, tickets are $13 online; $11 at the theater at the day of the showing.  65 and over are free.