Even his initial, unpolished efforts have a heightened quality that feels a little larger than life. You can spot a Fellini film from a single frame. 15 and includes 21 feature films, as well as assorted shorts and television projects, allowing a view in full of a gloriously grandiose filmmaker who, for better and worse, was never less than entirely, indomitably himself. The great director’s centenary passed during the early days of the pandemic, so instead of a series like this one, fans were stuck celebrating with the Criterion Collection’s handsome, if incomplete, “Essential Fellini” box set, the exclusions from which prompted more than a few arguments online about the definition of the word “essential.” Happily, you’ll find no such elisions in the HFA program, which runs from Friday, June 10 through Monday, Aug. As part of our local repertory theaters’ conspiracy to keep me from spending any time outdoors this summer, over the next three months the Harvard Film Archive will be screening “ The Complete Federico Fellini,” a comprehensive retrospective of the Italian cinema legend’s entire filmography, which contains more masterpieces than I can count on one hand.
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