Part of the Lungotevere Tiber
roadside in Rome will be named after late great Italian film
director Federico Fellini, the city council street-naming
committee decided Wednesday.
The naming of a stretch near Piazza Maresciallo of the
Rimini-born director who made several classic films set in Rome
comes on the anniversary of Fellini's birth.
Fellini's La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2 and Roma were all set in the
Italian capital.
The head of film industry group ANICA, former Rome mayor
Francesco Rutelli, said "this is an excellent choice" and said
Fellini's late wife Giuletta Masina had told him it was her late
husband's desire to get his name on a bit of the Lungotevere,
"in open spaces, in a dialogue between the sky, the river, and
trees moved by the wind".
Fellini (20 January 1920 - 31 October 1993) was a film
director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which
blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness.
He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential
filmmakers of all time.
His films have ranked in polls such as Cahiers du cinéma and
Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest
film.
Fellini won the Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita, was nominated
for twelve Academy Awards, and won four in the category of Best
Foreign Language Film, the most for any director in the history
of the Academy.
He received an honorary award for Lifetime Achievement at the
sixty-five Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
His other well-known films include La Strada (1954), Nights
of Cabiria (1957), Juliet of the Spirits (1967), Satyricon
(1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and Fellini's Casanova
(1976).
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