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Ginger and Fred

By Rick, on July 17th, 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, [...]

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: The White Sheik

By Rick, on February 19th, 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. [...]

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) [...]