Fellini fans listen up: 1974 Oscar winner Amarcord, which has been tauted by many as one of his best films and by far the most visually rich, is playing at Film Forum now through 12.16.08. Even if you've seen it before, you'll want to see it again as they're showing a newly restored 35mm version. And you thought Amarcord was just a store in SoHo.

Amacord is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy. It tells the story of a wild cast of characters inhabiting the fictional Borgo based on Fellini's hometown of Rimini in 1930s Fascist Italy. Amarcord (a m'arcòrd) is Romagnolo for "I remember."

Fellini's ultimate work of reminiscence unfolds against the spectacles of Fascism in a completely imagined — and Cinecittà-created — world, across four seasons during the 1930s, with vignettes of town life and its inhabitants: the Fascist parade; the central character "Titta"; the catastrophic family trip to the country; bombshell "Gradisca"; the fat boy who hopelessly longs for an unobtainable young virgin; the local tobacconist, sporting the most mountainous breasts in the whole bosom-oriented Fellini oeuvre; and the sudden appearance of a peacock in the square amidst a freakish snowfall.

Read the full Wiki here and get more info on Film Forum's site. The film gets rave reviews by all of the most important film critics of all time. Don't forget to watch the trailer and check out this extended clip from the film.

To put it quite simple, Fellini was fucked (in a good way) and his movies are amazing. Don't miss it!