Federico Fellini and Review Rick on 17 Jul 2008
When Fellini goes bad . . . sounds like one of those old Discovery Channel programs, doesn’t it? But when Fellini goes bad, it can be an unmitigated disaster. Take Satyricon — please! Or City of Women, a film that only Fellini’s mother could love (or a dedicated Fellinista like Vincent Canby, [...]
Tags: Fellini, Ginger and Fred, Masina, Mastroianni
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 — [...]
Tags: Dance, Fellini, La Dolce Vita, Nights of Cabiria
Review Rick on 19 Feb 2008
Note: this is part of a series which began here.
My wife and I have this huge disagreement over Fellini. She thinks he’s an over-the-top hack who’s never met a plot he liked. She’s seen pictures of painted dwarves, overweight, dancing whores, and strange conga-lines snaking about under a patently fake, Italian moon. [...]
Tags: Fellini, Italian Film, neo-realism, White Sheik
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) [...]
Tags: 8½, Fellini, Masina, Variety Lights
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