Fellini SATYRICON (1969)
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OUR MAXIMALIST MYTHOLOGIES FINALE! Maestro Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction. A vibrant spectacle of chaotic excess, this outrageous arthouse classic takes you on a phantasmagoric odyssey through ancient Rome during Nero’s reign.
Fellini SATYRICON (1969, 128 minutes). Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable and controversial adaptation of the fragmented satirical novel Satyricon by 1st Century AD author Petronius, Emperor Nero’s official “arbiter of elegance.”
An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and surreallist grotesquerie, Fellini sought, in his own words, “to eliminate the borderline between dream and imagination: to invent everything and then to objectify the fantasy; to get some distance from it in order to explore it as something all of a piece and unknowable.” The result is a phantasmagoric odyssey through ancient Rome, following the misadventures of the student Encolpio and his on-again, off-again boy lover Gitone as they face imprisonment on a pirate ship, kidnap a hermaphrodite demi-god, fight a minotaur, and search for a cure for Encolpio’s impotence. And that’s not even the half of it! Earning Fellini the third of his four Best Director Oscar nominations, Fellini Satyricon has been restored to its original visual splendor under the supervision of legendary cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno.
"A heaping helping of cinematic panem et circenses from the maestro, drawing provocative parallels between the Empire in decadent decline and contemporary consumerist society."- Metrograph
“The events emerge directly from the well of pre-incarnate memory,” Nathaniel Dorsky wrote. “We see a real world. Fragments of a history reveal themselves. . . . The audience must actively explore the screen as Fellini himself explores and discovers.” Fellini called the film “a science fiction picture, but projected into the past, not the future. It is a journey into the unknown.”
OUR MAXIMALIST MYTHOLOGIES SERIES:
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924) w/ Live Pipe Organ Score by Jeff Rapsis! Friday, August 28th
Pasolini's ARABIAN NIGHTS (1974), Sunday, August 30th, Doors 7pm
Fellini SATYRICON (1969), Saturday, September 26th, Doors 7pm
Fellini SATYRICON (1969, 128 minutes). Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable and controversial adaptation of the fragmented satirical novel Satyricon by 1st Century AD author Petronius, Emperor Nero’s official “arbiter of elegance.”
An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and surreallist grotesquerie, Fellini sought, in his own words, “to eliminate the borderline between dream and imagination: to invent everything and then to objectify the fantasy; to get some distance from it in order to explore it as something all of a piece and unknowable.” The result is a phantasmagoric odyssey through ancient Rome, following the misadventures of the student Encolpio and his on-again, off-again boy lover Gitone as they face imprisonment on a pirate ship, kidnap a hermaphrodite demi-god, fight a minotaur, and search for a cure for Encolpio’s impotence. And that’s not even the half of it! Earning Fellini the third of his four Best Director Oscar nominations, Fellini Satyricon has been restored to its original visual splendor under the supervision of legendary cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno.
"A heaping helping of cinematic panem et circenses from the maestro, drawing provocative parallels between the Empire in decadent decline and contemporary consumerist society."- Metrograph
“The events emerge directly from the well of pre-incarnate memory,” Nathaniel Dorsky wrote. “We see a real world. Fragments of a history reveal themselves. . . . The audience must actively explore the screen as Fellini himself explores and discovers.” Fellini called the film “a science fiction picture, but projected into the past, not the future. It is a journey into the unknown.”
OUR MAXIMALIST MYTHOLOGIES SERIES:
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924) w/ Live Pipe Organ Score by Jeff Rapsis! Friday, August 28th
Pasolini's ARABIAN NIGHTS (1974), Sunday, August 30th, Doors 7pm
Fellini SATYRICON (1969), Saturday, September 26th, Doors 7pm
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