Weekend Movie Forecast: Frost/Nixon, Cadillac Records

Federico Fellini's 1974 Oscar-winning film Amarcord is screening at Film Forum for the next two weeks. Writing for the Village Voice, Lance Goldenberg says, "Essentially 123 minutes of things falling apart, often grotesquely but also beautifully, Amarcord takes place during the 1930s in Rimini, the little seaside village where Fellini grew up...As earthy as it is episodic, much of Amarcord comes off like a series of loosely connected vaudeville routines, its players pumped up into a realm of caricature where gestures and emotions are as outsized as those famously enormous butts and breasts so dear to the director's heart. But what positions the film among Fellini's greatest are its punctuation points of mysterious beauty..."