(The bullying hero of “La Strada,” a circus strongman, winds up collapsing in tears on the sand. One face looks out to sea, and any Fellini fan will recall the beach scenes that litter his films. Many of them are warmed by the music of Nino Rota. The time and the place matter more than anything else, as we approach him now and try to make sense of the movies he bequeathed-crown jewels such as “La Dolce Vita” (1960) and “8 1/2” (1963), Oscar winners such as “La Strada” (1954), “Nights of Cabiria” (1957), and “Amarcord” (1973), and a cluster of other works. A hundred years ago, on January 20, 1920, Federico Fellini was born in the Italian town of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast.
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