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Co-presented by Zyzzyva Magazine and The RoxieAndrew Sean Greer is a Pulitzer Prize winning author whose humor, warmth, and candor could ignite a room from the page. For this special Litquake Festival installment, Greer introduces Amarcord, the dramatic comedy directed by Federico Fellini for this special matinee.
Fellini recreates his hometown of Rimini in this carnivalesque film, where the director satirizes his childhood. Time magazine says: “Fellini is so bountiful with incident and observation that he makes most other filmmakers seem stingy.” Winner of an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Amarcord remains one of the director’s best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rottuno’s colorful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rota’s nostalgia-tinged score.
Greer’s Villa Coco reaches a magical and madcap tone that is in kin with this Fellini film. In Villa Coco, a young man takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly Baronessa at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills. David Sedaris says: “No one writing in English is funnier or more charming than Andrew Greer.”
Doors open at 12:00 p.m.
Show starts promptly at 12:30 pm.
Q&A with the author follows the movie.
Book signing and a chance to shop Andrew Sean Greer’s recommended reading list (courtesy of Dog Eared Books) will be available both before and after the show.
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Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St,San Francisco, California, United States
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