Saturday | May 18, 2002 9:15 pm

Tuesday | May 21, 2002 7:00 pm

I Vitelloni
(The Wastrels)

Screening on Film

Directed by Federico Fellini.
With Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi.
Italy, 1953, 35mm, black & white, 109 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

Partly autobiographical, I Vitelloni is a study of five young men adrift in the wasteland of their provincial home town on the Adriatic coast. Middle-class layabouts who live aimlessly by cadging off their families as they nurse vague ambitions and spend their days in pursuit of amusement and girls, the characters are trapped as much by their own moral bankruptcy as by the futureless society in which they have never quite grown up. Beautifully shot and performed, and governed by an inextricable mixture of affectionate sympathy and acid satire, I Vitelloni bares the neorealist roots Fellini would later shake off.

May 17 – 29, 2002

Martin Scorsese’s Voyage in Italy

May 25–June 30, 2001

The Divine Comedy of Federico Fellini

June 27–August 16, 2006

Eight Weeks of Film History: 1940 - 1959

June 10–August 16, 2022

The Complete Federico Fellini

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy