the video store here has Nights of Cabiria, I'm going there today and will check it out if it's not rented atm.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 February 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
Seeing the film of the bastardized Broadway musical version (Sweet Charity) just reminded me of how great Nights of Cabiria was.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
Probably his best. Just about the only one I want to see again anyway.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
I don’t hate Fellini. I just like a few hundred directors better.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link
I don't hate him but La Strada is one of the "arthouse classics" I loathe the most
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
Giulietta didn't melt ya heart in that one, eh?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
I Vitelloni, y'all
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
stylistically La Strada certainly doesn't fit with a lot else in his oeuvre. It seems in part an effort to channel Chaplin.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
The real outlier is Il bidone--it's practically a Film Noir!
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 February 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
hadn't ever seen his first film Variety Lights (co-directed with Alberto Lattuada) before, it was interesting
― Dan S, Friday, 1 November 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
has elements that he made into a signature: the toughness, the focus on memorable faces, the tawdry-world loneliness
― Dan S, Friday, 1 November 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
I Vitelloni and Il Bidone have similar themes
― Dan S, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
seeing these two films it is clear he is really good at orchestrating and choreographing extended, chaotic, crowded party sequences - the carnival scene in I Vitelloni and the con man's New Year's Eve party in Il Bidone
― Dan S, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
both are about men who are living an idle life, in one case corralled by family and in the other tending towards crime
― Dan S, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
in both films the loneliness of outsiders feels like the heart of it
― Dan S, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
My students will write about Amarcord next weekend.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 November 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
I dismissed it as too sentimental when I saw it in college but think I will appreciate it much more when I watch it this time around
― Dan S, Monday, 18 November 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
it was my second Fellini film after Satyricon, which I was really impressed by at the time. I wonder how I will feel about that film now
― Dan S, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
I've warmed to Fellini over the years. I really love La Dolce Vita, its fantastic.
― Dark Mavis (Michael B), Monday, June 4, 2018 9:30 AM (one year ago)
I have too. La Dolce Vita is spectacular
― Dan S, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
I wonder if the seven episodes in this film were partly a reference to this being his seventh feature film, like 8 1/2
I like that all of the episodes are centered around amazing night-time set pieces
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 November 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
seeing it again I have a better understanding of the Robert Richardson's term “aesthetic of disparity”, between what life was or could be and what it actually is
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 November 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
also of Ebert's changing view of the film over the years:
"Movies do not change, but their viewers do. When I saw "La Dolce Vita" in 1960, I was an adolescent for whom "the sweet life" represented everything I dreamed of: sin, exotic European glamour, the weary romance of the cynical newspaperman. When I saw it again, around 1970, I was living in a version of Marcello's world; Chicago's North Avenue was not the Via Veneto, but at 3 a.m. the denizens were just as colorful, and I was about Marcello's age. When I saw the movie around 1980, Marcello was the same age, but I was 10 years older, had stopped drinking, and saw him not as a role model but as a victim, condemned to an endless search for happiness that could never be found, not that way. By 1991, when I analyzed the film a frame at a time at the University of Colorado, Marcello seemed younger still, and while I had once admired and then criticized him, now I pitied and loved him. And when I saw the movie right after Mastroianni died, I thought that Fellini and Marcello had taken a moment of discovery and made it immortal"
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 November 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
don’t think if I’ve ever seen Nico as an actress outside of this film
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 November 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
*don't know
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 November 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
of all of the ‘greatest films of all time’, 8 1/2 is the one I have the hardest time relating to, or even understanding
― Dan S, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
it seems like a whole movie made up of beautifully-filmed interstitial sequences and hectoring party scenes
― Dan S, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
Juliet of the Spirits is beautiful as his first film in color, but it doesn’t quite have the magic of 8 1/2
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 December 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
I have rewatched most of his films now. Need to see Nights of Cabiria and Satyricon again.
I admire 8 1/2 and especially La Dolce Vita, but I think that La Strada is the Fellini film I love the most. It is neorealism that has been transcended to include expressionist dreams and fantasies (although not the explicit ones of later films, and better for it).
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 December 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
I think it is fascinating and really moving. Anthony Quinn as Zampano gives one of the greatest ever performances, which doesn’t seem to have been acknowledged at the time
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 December 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
having not seen any of these in more than 20 years, La Strada is the one that has stuck with me because of Giulietta Masina and Anthony Quinn's absolutely amazing performances.
― akm, Sunday, 8 December 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
I like Fellini’s description of Satyricon as “science fiction of the past”. There’s not much of a story but it is such a surreal, grotesque spectacle and is so out of time that it remains interesting
― Dan S, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
with Roma I can really see how Fellini's chaotic party sequences and crowd scenes evolved into spectacle
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 December 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
I loved the motorcycles tearing through Rome at the end
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 December 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
2020 is his centennial year, so there'll be a lot of re-evaluation.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 December 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
8 1/2 - WHY does everyone love this movie
― flappy bird, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
I don't.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
filmmakers and people who wish they were
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 December 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
watched Amarcord this week. It’s interesting to see a film a second time 30+ years later and to compare the impressions it made then vs now
― Dan S, Friday, 10 January 2020 01:45 (four years ago) link
Happy 100 to Il Maestro. The haters and naysayers can continue hatin'.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 20 January 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6780-celebrating-fellini-at-100
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link