ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Andrew Sean Greer
Sat, Oct 17
|Roxie Theater
Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents a special screening of Roberto Fellini's dramatic comedy Amarcord, selected by award-winning author Andrew Sean Greer.
Time & Location
Oct 17, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
About The Event
Co-presented with The Roxie and ZYZZYVA
Andrew Sean Greer is a Pulitzer Prize winning author whose humor, warmth, and candor could ignite a room from the page. For this special Litquake Festival installment, Greer introduces Amarcord, the dramatic comedy directed by Roberto Fellini, for this ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee.
Fellini recreates his hometown of Rimini in this carnivalesque film, where the director satirizes his childhood. TIME magazine says: “Fellini is so bountiful with incident and observation that he makes most other filmmakers seem stingy.” Winner of an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Amarcord remains one of the director’s best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rottuno’s colorful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rota’s nostalgia-tinged score.
Greer’s latest novel Villa Coco reaches a magical and madcap tone that is in kin with this Fellini film. In Villa Coco, a young man takes an unspecified jo…