The viewer is not expected nor encouraged to look for a chronological - or just logical - sequence in the events, but should go with the flow with Fellini’s fantasy.”
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In seven flash minutes he was able to summarize and point out the key points of the movie, by warning the audience: “The movie has no plot. Forgcas also attended the event and introduced the movie. Among other assets, the new film comes with an interview with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino on the lasting influence of Fellini, an interview with poet and Fellini’s friend Valerio Magrelli, and an essay by David Forgcas, film scholar and Zerilli-Marimò Chair in Contemporary Italian Studies. Issa Club, Producer at Criterion Collection, confirms that the new version of Roma is a 2K digital restoration, which aims at bringing the attention back on a movie by Fellini which has been a bit underrated and underestimated in comparison to other more “Fellinesque” titles, like La dolce vita - whose new version was released in 2014. Well aware of this universal truth, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò always tries to feature iconic films in its program of events, and Federico Fellini’s Roma was screened on December 16, on the occasion of the Criterion Collectionrelease of the movie.Ī continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, the Criterion Collection has been dedicated, since 1984, to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality original supplements. It comes from the past to question the present and it speaks to the future. The highest value of a classic lies in the ability to embrace time as a whole.