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Checco’s company is peopled by more likeable and innocent figures like the American trumpet player Johnny (John Kitzmiller), the Brazilian street singer (Vanja Orico), and the gunslinging cowboy Pistolero Bill (Joseph Falleta). For you Fellini completists out there, check out Variety Lights.
With Variety Lights, we see the beginnings of Fellini’s fascination with carnivalesque characters and poor, down-on-their-luck people, which have become a signature mainstay in Fellini movies like Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, and La Dolce Vita.
The Criterion Collection presents Variety Lights in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-layer DVD. It’s unfortunately an interlaced transfer and this presents a lot problems. Jagged edges, shimmering, ghosting, and more are all present because of this.
I started my review of Fellini's "White Sheikh" by correcting the personal assumption that he debuted with neo-realism but after experiencing "Variety Lights" his first directorial and producing debut with the collaboration of Alberto Lattuada, it's like the titular light hitting me.
Variety Lights (1950): SPOILERS AHEAD: [SEEN ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL]: Federico Fellini’s first movie (well, technically he co-directed and co-wrote…
Nov 11, 2000 · Rating: 1.5 of 5. If Variety Lights weren't Fellini's first film I doubt it would ever have made its way onto DVD.
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Variety Lights. Made in collaboration with Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini’s directorial debut unfolds amid the colorful backdrop of a traveling vaudeville troupe whose quixotic impresario (Peppino De Filippo) is tempted away from his faithful mistress (Giulietta Masina) by the charms of an ambitious young dancer (Carla Del Poggio).
