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Federico Fellini Rick on 12 Feb 2008

Fellini’s First 8½: Variety Lights

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 [...]

Tags: Fellin, Giulietta Masina, Variety Lights

Federico Fellini Rick on 11 Feb 2008

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) [...]

Tags: 8½, Fellini, Masina, Variety Lights