{"id":2816,"date":"2012-07-14T17:25:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2012-07-14T17:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:25:41","slug":"notes-from-the-attic-woody-allen-and-amarcord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/notes-from-the-attic-woody-allen-and-amarcord\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the attic: Woody Allen and Amarcord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We watched a good chunk of Fellini's <a title=\"IMDb!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071129\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amarcord<\/a> (1973) the other day in movie club...until the disk exploded from all the extreme wackiness. (Just kidding: the disk was extremely scratched.) What we saw was awesome. I imagine this is Fellini's recollection (the title is \"I remember\") of his boyhood town in the 30s, filtered through a comic book. We learned about this film from a <a title=\"The Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/17\/movies\/woody-allen-on-italian-movies-and-to-rome-with-love.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times article<\/a> that Kyle read, about Woody Allen's top four Italian films: The Bicycle Thief (now known as Bicycle Thieves), Blow-up, Shoeshine, and Amarcord.<\/p>\n<p>Woody Allen on Italian filmmakers: \u201cThey invented a method of telling a story and suddenly for us lesser mortals it becomes all right to tell a story that way..... We do our versions of them, never as shockingly innovative or brilliant as when the masters did them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To Rome with Love is not only about the people of Rome but also its cinema. I think if you watch Amarcord and To Rome, and an earlier Woody Allen film <a title=\"IMDb!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093818\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Days<\/a> (highly recommended), you'll see the Italian influence.<\/p>\n<p>A fun-fact about To Rome: One of the working titles was The <a title=\"wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bebop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bop<\/a> <a title=\"wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Decameron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Decameron<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/amarcord_fellini-poster-1024x885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/amarcordLRG-720x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched a good chunk of Fellini's Amarcord (1973) the other day in movie club...until the disk exploded from all the extreme wackiness. (Just kidding: the disk was extremely scratched.) What we saw was awesome. I imagine this is Fellini's recollection (the title is \"I remember\") of his boyhood town in the 30s, filtered through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}