Analysis & Commentary and Federico Fellini Rick on 06 May 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 — [...]
Federico Fellini and Reviews Rick on 05 Apr 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 [...]
Federico Fellini Rick on 12 Feb 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 [...]
Federico Fellini Rick on 11 Feb 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) [...]
Analysis & Commentary and Federico Fellini Rick on 16 Dec 2007
Fellini kind of grows on you, I think. Not only between movies, as you learn more about what makes him tick, but as each individual film unspools before your eyes. The first one of his films I saw was La Strada, and I didn’t get it. At least not at first [...]
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