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This July at the Art Theatre of Long Beach, we’re proud to present MONDO ITALIA! A week of films set in and around Italy, spanning more than sixty years of travel, romance, memory, and menace beneath the Italian sun. 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.

Sketching a gallery of warmly observed comic caricatures, Fellini affectionately evokes a vanished world haloed with the glow of memory, even as he sends up authority figures representing church and state, satirizing a country stultified by Fascism.

Winner of Fellini’s fourth Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Amarcord remains one of the director’s best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rottuno’s colorful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rota’s nostalgia-tinged score. Presented by A Century of Cinema, an ongoing retrospective on the history of film.

This film is FREE for Art Theatre members.

Supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture as well as the Arts council of Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, Port of Long Beach and the California Arts Council, a state agency.