Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#11 in my ranking of Federico Fellini's films. This is often talked about as Fellini's deconstruction of contemporary Italian society, and that obviously has merit. However there's something at this little television movie's center that seems so blindingly obvious to me that it feels remarkable that more people don't talk about it. Fellini was one… Continue reading Orchestra Rehearsal
#14 in my ranking of Federico Fellini's films. Fellini followed up one of his easiest films to love with one of his hardest films to love, and that has a lot to do with how the production of his Casanova came together. Dino de Laurentiis, the famed Italian producer who had worked with Fellini on… Continue reading Fellini’s Casanova
#4 in my ranking of Federico Fellini's films. Out of all of Fellini's work, this feels like the one that comes from the purest, most innocent, and most nostalgic part of Fellini's mind. Born from his memories of his childhood in Rimini, Amarcord acts as a companion piece to his previous film, Roma, as well… Continue reading Amarcord
#20 in my ranking of Federico Fellini's films. So, as I wrote in my review of Roma, the similar structure and differing opinions I had between that film and Fellini's Saryricon made me want to revisit Fellini's weird look at Ancient Rome. I got the movie with the Essential Fellini boxset, but I was torn… Continue reading A Second Look at Fellini Satyricon
#7 in my ranking of Federico Fellini's films. Watching this, and enjoying it, made me think of my review of Fellini's Satyricon and feeling bad about it because both are episodic series of events that may or may not tie together, but I was simply more entertained by Roma than by the earlier film. Since… Continue reading Fellini’s Roma
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