![]() ![]() 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. Her chic style inspired the fashion houses: Valentino based his 1995 Spring collection on La Dolce Vita, casting Claudia Schiffer in her place, while Dolce & Gabbana cited her as the influence for their in-house magazine, Swide.Federico Fellini: The Book of Dreams Author Federico Fellini, Edited by Sergio Toffetti and Felice Laudadio and Gian Luca Farinelli She had a sharp tongue, often claiming, “It was I who made Fellini, not the other way around.” She also blasted the violence of modern cinema: “It's vulgar! Disgusting! Where is the elegance? The mystery? The romance?'” In 1960 she was photographed threatening the paparazzi with a bow and arrow. ![]() However, there was more to Ekberg than a glowing countenance, epic eyebrows and a curvaceous frame. A grandiose creature, extra-terrestrial and at the same time moving and irresistible” - Federico Fellini When she was later brought in to entertain American troops in the 1950s, Bob Hope introduced her as “the greatest thing to come from Sweden since smorgasbord,” also joking that her parents had won the Nobel Prize for architecture. The luminous colour of her skin, her clear ice-blue eyes, golden hair, exuberance, joie de vivre, made her into a grandiose creature, extra-terrestrial and at the same time moving and irresistible.” Pre-La Dolce Vita, Ekberg had been crowned Miss Sweden, before flying to America as a guest at the Miss Universe pageant. “She possessed incredible beauty," Fellini once said. ![]()
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