The Film Society of Lincoln Center
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Nights of Cabiria
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Saturday July 26, 2008 (8:30pm)
Sunday July 27, 2008 (4pm)
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- Price
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$11
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Note: The film's assistant director, Dominique Delouche, introduces the screening and answers questions about working with the Italian auteur.
In one of Frank O'Hara's off-the-cuff lunch poems, Giulietta Masina makes a seemingly random appearance as "wife of Federico Fellini, é bell' attrice." The New York Schooler was onto something, though, as the ever-expressive Masina defied rhyme and reason in any language. The early, neo-realist Fellini used his better half's buoyant energy to tenderize the movement's trademark focus on darkness and despair. In their third (and arguably best) collaboration, Nights of Cabiria, she's the proverbial prostitute with a heart of gold who is mistreated by every man she encounters. Despite the wallops to the belly, her spirit is never crushed, and Masina's against-all-odds perseverance lends the sob story a strangely restorative quality.
