The show includes some of the more spectacular costumes from his films, as well as frequently erotic extracts from the sketchbooks of his dreams he created for his psychotherapist over a 30-year period. “Rimini is everywhere in Fellini’s cinema, the countryside in his films is Rimini’s countryside, the sea in all Fellini’s films is Rimini’s sea,” said Marco Leonetti of the Rimini Cinematheque which helped put on the exhibition. On Monday the city will cut a giant cake in his honour on the main piazza. The city is marking the centenary with a special exhibition and is due to open a museum dedicated to Fellini, who died in 1993, by the end of the year. The winner of a record four best foreign language film Oscars, he is famed for films set in Rome such as La Dolce Vita (1960), and most of his films were shot in Cinecitta’s Studio 5 outside the capital.īut he set his 1973 masterpiece Amarcord, a semi-autobiographical comedy about an adolescent boy growing up in 1930s fascist Italy, in the Adriatic resort of Rimini where he was born on January 20, 1920. Italian resort Rimini on Monday marked 100 years since the birth of director Federico Fellini, whose visual dreamscapes revolutionised cinema in a career spanning almost half a century.ĭozens of events are being held around the world and in Italy this year to remember Fellini, considered one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.
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