I'm just trying to create a calendar where each poster stands behind one film, so is there one you'd recommend above all others?
>Amarcord >1973 >Federico Fellini >330 AM, February 24 > >Why? Cause you've prolly seen 81/2 already (which IS being >shown directly after Amarcord). Boring synopsis - Young kid >and friends run around small town Italy, raise juvenile hell, >ogle hookers, and, of course since it's Fellini, check out a >parade. And it works.
Favorite Fellini film.
So effective is it that the sense of nostalgia it creates feels universal and obvious, even though the eccentricities of the kid, his family, his little crew, and their town are very different from most people's reality. But I guess mischief when its presented with such texture and feeling can make those kinds of leaps.
>The Best Years Of Our Lives >1946 >William Wyler >Myrna Loy, Fredric March >10 PM, February 21
That's two for Wyler. It makes no sense that he as a director is not more highly touted, when so many of his films are.