“Everybody wants to sleep under the sky, outside, once in their life; the night sky seems endless, and it’s a starting point of reflection where you try to be connected with other people.” That’s ...

ORIGINALLY MADE FOR Italian television and shown in black and white, “The Clowns” was later released in color theatrically. Reminiscent of “Amarcord,” the film begins with one of Fellini’s childhood ...

Does your life sometimes seem like a crazy dream? Do you find yourself utterly fascinated with Anna Nicole Smith? Are you forever getting decked out in clown drag and joining the circus? Then you ...

This is the film that established Fellini as Fellini, not just a known international filmmaker but a brand-name director with a signature style (cinema as circus) and subject (the decadence of modern ...

Founded 17 years ago as a showcase for leader Steven Bernstein's unique slide trumpet, Sex Mob has since embraced a far more ambitious mission: to revive the adventurous spirit of prewar jazz.

In June, our darling Belcourt Theatre brought the big top to Hillsboro Village with a retrospective of films by the director, writer, maestro and circus barker Federico Fellini. The series included 11 ...

As filmmakers, Federico Fellini and Spike Lee are about as far apart as, well, Rome and Brooklyn, but when the maestro died 20 years ago this week (on October 31, 1993), even Lee acknowledged his vast ...

La Strada may be almost 60 years old, but Federico Fellini’s masterpiece is in the news. In an interview published late last week, Pope Francis called La Strada his favorite film. Some might have ...

Every now and then one watches a film that takes a couple days to absorb. I am not just talking about dissecting and understanding—often the better the movie, the more that is revealed by further ...

Pope Francis waves to a child as he arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican September 18, 2013. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini By Annette Insdorf La Strada ...