Archive for the tag 'Masina'

Ginger and Fred

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, [...]

Watching Fellini’s 7 & 11/28

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) [...]