Friday, November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Academy Museum, Los Angeles
Influenced by Jungian dream theory throughout his six-decade career—during which he earned four Oscar nominations for directing and eight for writing—Federico Fellini tumbles headfirst into fantasy for his first color film. Realized with his longtime muse and wife, Giulietta Masina, Juliet of the Spirits offers a peek into the interior mindscape of a woman scorned by her aloof husband. Nominated for Art Direction (Color) and Costume Design (Color) at the 39th Oscars, Fellini’s gorgeous and sensitive portrait contributed to a newfound appetite for so-called art-house films in the US in the mid-1960s. Visual effects artist Carlo Rambaldi’s uncredited work to create three horses on a raft that appear during a dream sequence makes for some of the more surreal contributions of his long... career.