Corman might have been a peddler of schlock a lot of the time but he was also an avowed cinephile with a deep affection for European art film. So that his new distribution company, New World Pictures, wouldn’t get pigeonholed as an exploitation outfit, they turned to the big names of international cinema to lend them legitimacy. In AMARCORD, Federico Fellini continues his late career nostalgia trip with this satirical, bawdy, and carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.