Reviews "A treasury of the prolific, legendary Italian filmmaker’s drawings or, as he himself described them, “scribbles, rushed and ungrammatical notes.” Only they are much more. Category: Performing Arts - Individual Director.Together with Martin Scorsese, Raffaele Donato, Thierry Frémaux, and Alberto Luna he founded the World Cinema Foundation, which brings together about twenty great international directors for the restoration of third-world films. In 1986 he created, together with Nicola Mazzanti, Il Cinema Ritrovato an event dedicated to the history of cinema and the activity of film libraries. Gian Luca Farinelli has been director of the Cineteca of Bologna since 2000. He has overseen numerous cinema events, such as MystFest, EuropaCinema, and RomaFictionFest. Felice Laudadio is president of the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Sergio Toffetti, born in Turin in 1951, is president of the Museo Nazionale del Cinema and has published essays on Italian and international cinema, and on the conservation and restoration of film.
The volume will be released to coincide with the centenary of Federico Fellini's birth (January 2020), which will be celebrated in Italy with a traveling exhibition on the director that will start its journey from Milan in December 2019. It will be published in collaboration with the Municipality of Rimini as well as the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and the Cineteca di Bologna (the three main Italian institutions in the field of cinema). From the late 1960s until 1990, the great director used this diary to represent his nocturnal visions in the form of drawings or, as he himself described them, "scribbles, rushed and ungrammatical notes."Ĭurrently out of print, this new edition will include a critical introduction, as well as updated graphic design. This is a new edition of the diary kept by Federico Fellini, in which the great director faithfully recorded his dreams and nightmares.Ī highly colorful journey into the boundless territory of a genius's imagination, this is a work that added a fundamental element to the study of Federico Fellini and his creative experience. Federico Fellini: The Book of Dreams Author Federico Fellini, Edited by Sergio Toffetti and Felice Laudadio and Gian Luca Farinelli