Marcello Mastroianni who appeared in a number of Fellini films including La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Ginger and Fred (1986) & Intervista (1987).Īctress Anita Ekberg who appeared in La Dolce Vita (1960), The Clowns (1972) & Intervista (1987).
Sophia Loren who appeared in the anthology film Boccaccio ’70 (1962) that Fellini co-directed with Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti & Mario Monicelli.įilm producers Dino De Laurentiis & Andrea Riz zoli If you are familiar with Fellini’s films you might recognize many of the characters and scenes that they convey and if not, I hope they will encourage you to seek out the director’s work.Ĭaricatures of fellow directors Vittorio De Sica & Roberto Rossellini.Ī self-portrait of the director at work in Italy’s Cinecittà studios while making Ginger and Fred (1986).Ĭaricatures of his wife, actress Giulietta Masina, in Nights of Cabiria (1957) & La Strada (1954). I’ve tried to curate the images in a way that demonstrates Fellini’s artistic skills while highlighting his sense of humor and limitless imagination. What follows is a collection of Fellini’s work that I have accumulated from various sources. Following the exhibit two books were published ( Fellini! and Federico Fellini: Book of Dreams) featuring many of his sketches and illustrations that provide us with a much broader understanding of how Fellini used his cartoons and caricatures to express himself and his creative vision. After Fellini died in 1993 his journals were locked away in a bank vault and didn’t see the light of day until 2003 when they went on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of a film festival and exhibit in recognition of the 10th anniversary of his death. He also designed set pieces and costumes for his movies while keeping extensive journals where he often illustrated his dreams.
Throughout Fellini’s life, he continued to sketch friends and acquaintances that he worked with during the making of his films. Middle: A page from one of the comics Fellini illustrated.īottom: Sketches for an animated film titled Hello Jeep! the director worked on that was never completed. Fellini soon began working as an apprentice for Rossellini and ultimately started directing his own films but he never stopped drawing cartoons and caricatures. It was here that Fellini met the renowned filmmaker Roberto Rossellini who was so impressed with his sense of humor that he was asked to co-write the film script for Rossellini’s Rome, Open City (1945) and the rest, as they say, is history. He eventually began writing comedy scripts for radio but WW2 derailed his writing career and following the Allied liberation of Rome in 1944, Fellini opened the Funny Face Shop where he worked as a caricature artist and expressed an interest in animation. As a child, he began drawing caricatures of film stars he saw in movies and as a young adult he found work as a cartoonist and gag writer for a number of Italian newspapers, humor publications and comic books. Fellini also had a wonderful sense of humor that was patently apparent throughout his career as a celebrated director and talented cartoonist.įellini’s propensity toward the absurd emerged early in life.
#FEDERICO FELLINI DRAWINGS SERIES#
The results were a series of innovative, provocative and unapologetically sensual films that can still shock and surprise audiences. During that transformative decade the Italian director disregarded conventional storytelling technique in favor of a unique dream language, which emerged from his life experience and was filtered through his vivid imagination and esoteric interests. I’m particularly fond of the last two films scheduled and generally prefer Fellini’s work in the sixties due to its baroque artistry and avant-garde sensibilities. In the next three weeks you can catch Nights of Cabiria (1957) on Nov.
#FEDERICO FELLINI DRAWINGS MOVIE#
Federico Fellini is one of my favorite filmmakers so I was delighted to discover that TCM Imports is showcasing the movie maestro’s work every Sunday night throughout the month of November.