Watch an insightful introductory talk with film historian Russell Merritt, recorded at BAMPFA in February 2020

Russell Merritt Introduces La strada

Watch an insightful introductory talk with film historian Russell Merritt, recorded at BAMPFA in February 2020

Rental fee: $12Discounted fee for BAMPFA members: $8Members: to receive your discount, you must log in to Eventive with the same email address you use to receive BAMPFA member communications. It’s hard to think of&nbsp;La strada&nbsp;apart from its reputation as a Humanist Classic, what Vincent Canby called “a fable of spiritual redemption,” in which Giulietta Masina’s clownish soul Gelsomina is victimized by Anthony Quinn’s brutish Zampanò and they call it a traveling sideshow. But that’s a good reason to see it again. Behind Masina’s tragicomic masquerade are some of the most chillingly evocative landscapes in Italian cinema (the film after all is named for its setting), reminders that Fellini used only the tools of reality to create a fable out of time, out of place. Among the international cast, Quinn gets the kudos (it is considered his finest performance), but the American actor Richard Basehart is quizzical and magnetic as The Fool, who appears to Gelsomina as out of a dream (eating spaghetti on a high wire) to give words to the sense, already growing in her, that she means something. —Judy Bloch

La strada

Fellini’s muse, Giulietta Masina, modeled her timeless character Gelsomina after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. She stars with a brutish Anthony Quinn in this classic that Martin Scorsese has called “the cornerstone of Fellini’s work.”

Watch a Q&amp;A with film historian Russell Merritt, recorded at BAMPFA in February 2020

Russell Merritt Q&A - La strada

Watch a Q&A with film historian Russell Merritt, recorded at BAMPFA in February 2020

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