Auteur: An auteur repeats specific themes, topics, and specific edited shots in order to represent their own perosonal issues and topics.

Federico Fellini, Jan20 1920- Oct 31 1993

Fellini, specifically focused and incorporated dream, fantasy, and desire elements within his directed films. His first directed film Variety Lights launched his career, and placed him on the map of famous auteurs. He directed variety Lights alongside film director Alberto Lattuada, a well known respected director, who allowed him to handle the majority of the directing.

Federico Fellini's Cinema (1)
Federico Fellini, a canonical name of personal expression and artistic fantasy in the cinema, had no formal technical training in his profession. Born in the seaside town of Rimini in Italy in 1920, he quit the provinces for Rome at age 18. Enrolled in law school, he abandoned the degree. He never considered attending Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, whose graduates he would later collaborate with. And unlike his contemporaries, he never frequented the cinema clubs that screened the best Italian directors' films and international titles from France, Germany and Russia. When pressed for his influences, Fellini preferred Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx brothers, Pietro Germi, and Buñuel (with his black humor) to "cine-club" names such as Dreyer, Griffith and Eisenstein. Young Fellini supported himself as a wandering caricaturist until hired by Marc'Aurelio in 1939. The famed humor bi-weekly served as an unofficial training ground for scriptwriters and directors of the postwar period.

Fellini's formative influences can be traced back to the popular Italian culture of the period, and not primarily the cinema. The cartoons, caricature sketches, and radio comedy that were his popular art métier brought him to the cinema as a gagman and scriptwriter. Novelist Italo Calvino diagnosed the influence of mass culture on Fellini's later sophisticated cinematic language as a "forcing of the photographic image in a direction that carries it from an image of caricature toward that of the visionary." (2) Fellini trained for a professional life as a visionary with over ten years of scriptwriting and on-the-set apprenticeship.

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