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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780020696
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780020693
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 01, 1998
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 28070
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1974
Editorial Review:
Description:
In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of rituals, sensations and emotions. Adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political repartee are set to Nina Rota's music in this beautiful transfer of Amarcord.
Amazon.com essential video:
Federico Fellini's 1974 fantasy-memoir of life in his hometown during the Fascist era is basically the full palette of experience--sex, families, politics--with his surreal twist. As a general picture of the 1930s community carrying on rituals but with an element of government harshness in the air, the film is quite memorable (especially in scenes set around the town square). Less satisfying is Fellini's tighter focus on certain, forgettable individuals. The ironic title translates into, 'I remember,' but here memory is more a matter of loving vision than actuality. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fellini in second gear
Federico Fellini's 1973 Amarcord is a film that has often been linked with Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander as films by old men looking back on their youth. While this is true, in the main, the fact is that Amarcord has a loose narrative structure, in which the lives of many characters are detailed in comic vignettes, whereas Fanny & Alexander is a straight drama. The film that Amarcord shares a deeper affinity with is one which was obviously influenced by it; Woody Allen's grossly underrated ... Read More
Rating:  - A compassionate, funny, and telling film
"Amarcord"--"I Remember"--just may be my single favorite Fellini film. I love it for three reasons.
First, it's a warmly nostalgic look at the sometimes buffoonish, sometimes strange, but always lovable figures whom Fellini remembers from his childhood hometown. I don't know how much in the film is a historically loyal depiction and how much is a cocktail of memory and imagination. But it doesn't really matter how accurate Fellini's portraits are, because what he gives us is an ensemble ... Read More
Rating: - on the nostalgia wings
It's a sincere documentary of the era it depicts. Excellent in every respect thanks also to Criterion treatment.
Rating: - Don't give up on this one...
Movie set in the 1930's in a small town in Italy on the Adriatic. The movie initially feels like a series of disconnected and chaotic sequences that lack structure and direction. But hang in there - it comes together masterfully. The story of the town, a young boy growing up, a family and the community dealing with the fascist regime is filled with colorful and whacky characters. It is wrapped in beautiful spell bounding scenes of dandelion seeds drifting in the wind bringing on the spring season - ... Read More
Rating: - Fellini's Masterpiece
Fellini's most personal film remains his masterpiece--a rich, beautiful pageant of small town life and an examination of one family that is brimming with funny scenes of fantasy and satire, as well as magical moments of intimate nostalgia and pathos as it moves through the cycle of the seasons.
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