2008 February 11 | Coosa Creek Cinema

Watching Fellini’s 7 & 11/28

By Rick, on February 11th, 2008 |

Federico Fellini famously named a film 8½, based on the fact that he’d directed seven and a half before that. So, as many a Fellini fan before me, I counted them: six feature-length films on his own (The White Sheik, I Vitelloni, La Strada, Il Bidone, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita), one (Variety Lights) [...]

Roy Scheider, 1932 – 2008

By Rick, on February 11th, 2008 |

Roy Scheider, who appeared in films, television and on the stage, has died. Although he was perhaps best known for his role as Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws, I’ll always remember him best as the self-destructive Joe Gideon, doppelganger of Bob Fosse in All That Jazz. In that film, as in all [...]