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Dir. Federico Fellini (1974).
Fellini’s occasionally hilarious and often poignant nostalgia trip to his seaside home town during the Fascist Italy of the 1930s is overlong and is marred by a few really dreadful gags, but his dreamlike vision of the past is often visually stunning.

Sat., Sept. 12, 5 p.m., 2009

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