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tributes<br />
Nights of Cabiria<br />
lA notti di CAbiriA<br />
italy<br />
1957<br />
117 miN<br />
Dir Federico Fellini<br />
ProD Dino De Laurentiis<br />
sCr Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli,<br />
Pier Paolo Pasolini<br />
Cam Aldo Tonti<br />
ED Leo Cattozzo<br />
mUs Nino Rota<br />
Cast Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca<br />
Marzi, Dorian Gray<br />
PriNt soUrCE Rialto Pictures. EMAIL: rialto.<br />
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The humorous and deeply affecting story of a spunky<br />
prostitute’s misfortunes in postwar Rome, Nights of<br />
Cabiria still resonates with the same transformative<br />
power audiences first encountered in 1957. The third film<br />
in Fellini’s so-called trilogy of loneliness, which includes<br />
La Strada and Il Bidone, Nights of Cabiria again stars<br />
Fellini’s wife and muse, Giulietta Masina, this time as the<br />
waiflike Cabiria, whose brassy, boisterous exterior masks<br />
a wistful yearning for love that makes her constantly<br />
vulnerable to heartache and exploitation. Even though<br />
she spends a lot of time bucking up and sticking her chin<br />
out to meet the bad luck that inevitably comes her way,<br />
underneath her survivor’s armor Cabiria is a woman of<br />
great compassion and feeling. If it is this capacity for love<br />
that inevitably proves Cabiria’s undoing, it is also what<br />
allows her to survive beyond the tragedy that befalls her.<br />
Masina won the best actress award at Cannes for her<br />
portrayal, and it is her brilliantly mannered and emotionally<br />
touching performance—recalling the expressive physicality<br />
of Charlie Chaplin-that is at the heart of the film’s success.<br />
The final sequence is a beautifully realized parable of hope<br />
and disillusionment that ends in a now famous coda, one<br />
of cinema’s greatest depictions of the resilient human<br />
spirit. It’s all there in Masina’s face, and in Fellini’s genius<br />
at capturing it.<br />
—Beverly Berning<br />
One of the world’s most beloved filmmakers, Federico Fellini<br />
(1920-93) was born in the Italian seaside town of Rimini, which<br />
figures heavily in the autobiographical La Strada (SFIFF 1976),<br />
Nights of Cabiria (SFIFF 1980), 8 1⁄2 (1963) and Amarcord<br />
(1973), which won best foreign film Oscars. Fellini’s La Dolce<br />
Vita is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time.<br />
His last, The Voice of the Moon, screened at SFIFF in 1991.<br />
Fellini married actress Giulietta Masina in 1943. Their lifelong<br />
partnership spawned a fruitful creative collaboration as well as a<br />
great love story.<br />
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sundAY, mAY 3<br />
5:00 Pm CAstro tHeAtre<br />
429 CAstro street (neAr mArket)<br />
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The distinguished recipient of this year’s Mel Novikoff<br />
Award—bestowed on an individual or institution whose<br />
work has enhanced the filmgoing public’s appreciation<br />
of world cinema—is the innovative programmer, archivist<br />
and showman extraordinaire Bruce Goldstein. He will<br />
present a reel of trailers from his distribution company,<br />
Rialto Pictures, followed by an onstage interview with Anita<br />
Monga, and capped by a screening of Fellini’s enthralling<br />
Nights of Cabiria, in what is destined to be a fascinating<br />
treat for all citizens of film culture at large.<br />
A complete article with biographical information on Mel<br />
Novikoff Award recipient Bruce Goldstein can be found on<br />
page 44.<br />
sun mAY 3 5:00 CAstro AwAr03C<br />
tue mAY 5 8:30 PFA nigH05P
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