One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s _8½_ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE: I VITELLONIStarts November 15Five young men linger in a postadolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE: LA STRADAStarts November 15There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La Strada, the film that launched them both to international stardom. Federico Fellini’s showcase for his wife won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of its year.
