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Feb 22, 2023 · In his final film, The Voice of the Moon (1990), the principal figures were recently released insane asylum patients whose realities set them apart from the conventional world. SC: How does Fellini’s background as a cartoonist and graphic artist influence his filmmaking style?
The scandal provoked by Turkish dancer Haish Nana's improvised striptease at a nightclub captured Fellini's imagination: he decided to end his latest script-in-progress, Moraldo in the City, with an all-night "orgy" at a seaside villa.
Dec 16, 2022 · When Fellini gives up definitively and decides to go to the Producer Angelo Rizzoli to explain that the film is no longer there, he is blocked by a Cinecittà chief engineer celebrating the birthday of a stagehand.
- City of Women (1980) Originally conceived as a joint project between Fellini and Ingmar Bergman, over a decade before it was finally made, City of Women bears similarities with 8½ as a self-reflective mid-life crisis film.
- And the Ship Sails On (1983) In his biography, I, Fellini, the director stated that And the Ship Sails On was his ode to Italian opera, a subject he had resisted previously, as he explained: “It was in later life that I came to appreciate our Italian operatic tradition.
- Intervista (1987) Set on the 50th anniversary of Cinecittà film studios, Intervista is less of the celebration it was perhaps intended to be. It’s more a melancholic abstract poem on the director’s early experiences with the Italian film industry, including comparisons to how the industry had changed over time, with Cinecittà shown as a shell of its former self, crumbling into disrepair by the late 80s.
- Ginger and Fred (1986) Following on from the theme of time passing in Intervista, Ginger and Fred tackles the same subject in greater depth. The idea for the film was conceived by Fellini’s wife and longtime muse, Giulietta Masina, who had originally envisioned the project as part of an episodic television series, with her husband directing her story.
Dec 23, 2019 · Why this might not seem so easy. Federico Fellini – even his very name conjures thoughts of grandiose, important cinema, the kind screened at university courses and talked about reverentially by cineastes. It’s become immortalised in the neologism ‘Fellini-esque’, a term now used frequently to denote the kind of flamboyant, larger-than ...
Nov 12, 2018 · Fellini has four films in BBC Culture’s poll to find the 100 greatest foreign-language films, but some critics dismiss him. They’re wrong, writes Chris Nashawaty.
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Aug 29, 2019 · Federico Fellini’s 1960 masterpiece “La Dolce Vita” is the pivot point between his gritty, early neorealist efforts like “I Vitelloni” and “La Strada” and later, phantasmagoric carnivals such...
