Federico Fellini | Coosa Creek Cinema

Sometimes a Dance is Just a Dance

By Rick, on May 6th, 2008 |

Note: This is part of the Invitation to the Dance Blogathon at Ferdy on Films.

To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a dance is just a dance . . . but sometimes it’s not. And among the more entertaining celluloid examples of when it’s not are by Federico Fellini. Actually, Freud doesn’t quite fit — [...]

Fellini’s First 8½: I Vitelloni

By Rick, on April 5th, 2008 |

What is there left to say about Federico Fellini? Possibly not much, but folks keep on trying. Several months ago I vowed … simply vowed … to visit all of his first movies, up through 8½, and then write some (possibly redundant) but hopefully interesting stuff about them. I thought I’d churn [...]

Fellini’s First 8½: Variety Lights

By Rick, on February 12th, 2008 |

Variety Lights ends where it begins, on a train with Checco Dal Monte (a third-rate singer played by Peppino de Filippo) leering at a young show-biz wanna-be. Well, it doesn’t quite begin there . . . there’s a prologue that shows the charmingly inept musical-comedy troupe Checco “headlines” doing their thing, to not very [...]

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) [...]