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Fellini Satyricon
Film Review August 15, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Visually stunning and sensationalistic film is Italian master Fellini's take on the decline of pagan Rome. Filled to the brim with cautionary sights of almost-surrealistic debauchery and depravity, the film's...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Federico Fellini. Starring: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Capucine and Salvo Randone..."
La Dolce Rota
Music Blog June 22, 2007
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: The Ultimate Best of Federico Fellini & Nino Rota
"...2005’s Ipecac-sponsored Crime and Dissonance found avant-spazzmen John Zorn and Mike Patton on the compilation tip of the maestro’s universal ear, as one ripe example. Were that Morricone’s grand precursor, Milan-born Nino Rota, Federico Fellini’s musical wingman for nearly 30 years, was equally celebrated contemporarily..."
La Strada
Film Review May 13, 1994
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: This Academy Award-winner sealed Fellini's reputation as a director of international renown. La Strada represents a fertile cross-pollination of Fellini's noted tendencies toward both stark neorealism and symbolic expressionism. It stars Masina in one of her most memorable roles as the simple naïf, who is bought for a bowl of food by a roadshow strongman (Quinn) who treats her brutishly. An overwhelming humanism underscores the whole film and leaves its ultimate meaning up to interpretation.
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Federico Fellini. Starring: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart..."
Letters @ 3AM
Columns August 17, 2007
by Michael Ventura
Description: Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini: The great achievement of these film directors was to create living souls to look at, that we might know ourselves
"..."The death of an artist is quite unassailable," wrote Lawrence Durrell, adding, "One can only smile and bow." And after one has smiled and bowed? When two master directors, who once shook my life to the core -- Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni -- died on the same day, July 30, it felt as though something needed doing, some observance needed to be observed. And their deaths brought up another, Federico Fellini's in 1993..."
8 1/2
Film Review February 15, 2001
by Nick Barbaro
Description: Mastroianni plays Guido, a director who's just had a huge hit but is now struggling to come up with an idea for his next project. Between fits and starts, Guido goes back through his life and confronts all his demons. And what a cavalcade of demons!
by Nick Barbaro
"...Directed by: Federico Fellini. Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo and Barbara Steele..."
Juliet of the Spirits
Film Review
Description: This surrealistic film about a woman on the verge of self-awareness is one of Fellini's truly great films. The film stars the incomparable Giulietta Masina, the director's wife, as a...
"...Directed by: Federico Fellini. Starring: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu and Valentina Cortese..."
Cold Souls
Film Review September 18, 2009
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Paul Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti, sans soul. 
by Kimberley Jones
"...The two threads trade space somewhat awkwardly, Buñuelist oddballism bumping up against the realist grime and gaudiness of the post-Soviet black-market trade, until the film’s sparkier second half finally marries the two. Even with the light lifts from other sources (Barthes has also cited Federico Fellini and Eugène Ionesco as inspirations), the multinational writer/director’s debut feature is an original, and Giamatti is masterful, swaddled in a heavy beard and an existential slump..."
Tokyo!
Film Review April 10, 2009
by Marc Savlov
Description: This triptych of short films by directors Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho is a gorgeous, sprawling mess.
by Marc Savlov
"...Falling somewhere between the horrors of Three … Extremes and the beauties of Eros, this triptych of short films set in and underscored by the titular megalopolis is a gorgeous, sprawling mess. If I had to compare it to anything – a challenging task – I'd say it was closest to 1968's Spirits of the Dead, which united Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim under the guise of creating a film homage to Edgar Allan Poe..."
Letters at 3am
Columns August 1, 2008
by Michael Ventura
Description: The "Situation" is upon us: China and Southern Asia can support their own growth and have no more use for us
"...What could I have been thinking? On any more-or-less sane day I know power and riches are not necessary for greatness. The blacks and Creoles of New Orleans were neither powerful nor rich when they invented jazz, nor were the Wright Brothers when they gave us flight, nor was Italy when it produced the cinema of Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Luchino Visconti..."
Alan Pappé: In Memoriam
Arts Story May 16, 2008
Description: The man who gave us thousands of memorable images from Hollywood and the music scene has passed
"...Alan Pappé, who made his name in Hollywood but spent the last 14 years in Austin, died Wednesday, April 30. As a special-projects still photographer, Pappé worked with industry giants the likes of Federico Fellini, John Huston, Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Robert De Niro, Lucille Ball, and Barbra Streisand, and if you want to know why, you need only look at one of his shots – say, his portrait of Liza Minnelli in the film Cabaret that was used for the cover of Time (and earned him special recognition from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery): The drama, the character, the star wattage are all there in a single frame..."
In Print
Screens Review December 14, 2007
by Spencer Parsons
Description: Cinematic storytelling and technique naturally get plenty of play, but all these long-form interviews roam through detours and diversions that lend a tremendous sense of character
"...Cinematic storytelling and technique naturally get plenty of play, but all these long-form interviews roam through detours and diversions that lend a tremendous sense of character. Federico Fellini offers his own personal take on Catholicism as beautiful for its embrace as it is frustrating in the convenience of its male chauvinism, while Orson Welles talks trash about other directors and offers a tall tale of eating lunch next to Hitler, and the Coen brothers very entertainingly and assiduously offer nothing..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review September 1, 2006
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Three new Criterion titles demonstrate how far fascism's castor-oil cocktail will travel down the throat of its native filmmakers before it comes back up twice as Azzurri.
Film News
Screens Column August 11, 2006
by Joe O'Connell
Description: Local intrigue abounds; plus, SXSW 07 is ready for your best shot(s)
"...Bruno is now at work on a script for a musical.Fellini Fun for Fort Worth Film purists, rejoice. A complete retrospective of Federico Fellini's films in immaculate prints from Italy's Cinecittà International is slated at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth..."
In Print
Screens Story March 31, 2006
by Spencer Parsons
Description: 'Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute'
"...Enter Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute, with a title possessed of many words and nary an ounce of poetry, even as its covers enclose a veritable gold mine. George Stevens Jr.'s excellent collection of master classes with some of old Hollywood's greatest directors, writers, producers, and cinematographers (not to mention guest stars Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, and Satyajit Ray) ably fills out the bonus discs in that ideal Criterion Collection of the mind, with everything from James Wong Howe's reminiscence of fights with the Technicolor lab over low-light photography to Fritz Lang's idiosyncratically sweet take on Deep Throat as "a crime against youth" (young people should discover oral sex with each other, he persuasively argues, rather than "see it for the first time in a motion picture and say, 'Oh, let's try that'")...."
Letters at 3AM
Columns February 20, 2004
by Michael Ventura
Description: In the world of Charlie Chaplin chaos reigns … and is celebrated: The Little Tramp turns 90
"...Instead, the Sennett Chaplins revel in the Tramp's incredible excitement at simply and suddenly coming to life. And there are strange moments of anarchic beauty when you feel, "This film is behaving very like my mind!" And moments when the chaos seems to wink at you, saying what Federico Fellini (a passionate Chaplin devotee) once said: "People are worth much more than reality."..."
Holiday Bonuses
Screens Story December 5, 2003
by Nick Barbaro
"...Delicious. Criterion's typically robust package features a gorgeous new digital transfer, plus extras including an RAI-TV documentary, Federico Fellini's Autobiography, and an optional English-dubbed soundtrack with the voices of Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart..."
Omaggio a Tropicalista
Music Story October 18, 2002
by Mike Quinn
Description: Putting Brazil's musical poet laureate in his place.
"...Never content to record the predictable, in the last few years Veloso has released a disc of Spanish language classics, Fina Estampa, as well as the fascinating Omaggio a Federico e Giulietta, a tribute to Italian film legends Federico Fellini and his favorite actress (and spouse) Giulietta Masina. Omaggio features a healthy dose of Veloso originals alongside tunes from classic Fellini films, recorded live in Italy..."
Run Away With the Circus
Food Story July 12, 2002
by Virginia B. Wood
"...In Federico Fellini's 1954 classic film La Strada, small-time circus performers Zampano and Gelsomina travel the Italian countryside entertaining villagers. On Thursday, July 18, the poignant film will be the centerpiece of a great evening's entertainment sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse, the Austin Museum of Art, Siena Ristorante Toscana, The Austin Chronicle, and Austin RentAll Party to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank..."
Exhibitionism
Arts Review July 5, 2002
by Rob Curran
Description: Ronnie Larsen's play Making Porn dramatizes the making of Cops, a gay porn movie, from casting calls to the spin-off calendar, and in Naughty Austin's production, director Blake Yelavich realizes the comic potential of the script and the world of porn. But a tragic subplot undermines the show's success as a satire on the adult movie industry.
"...Proscribed as pornography during Ireland's censorship era of the 1920s-50s: James Joyce's Ulysses, Federico Fellini's films, The Threepenny Opera. If art can be viewed as pornography, asks writer Ronnie Larsen, can pornography be viewed as an art form?..."
Eat, Drink, Watch "La Strada"
Food Story July 5, 2002
by Virginia B. Wood
"...The Chronicle joins the Austin Museum of Art, the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Siena Ristorante Toscana, and Austin RentAll Party to bring you another great dinner-and-a-movie evening on Thursday, July 18, benefiting the Capital Area Food Bank. Tickets are now on sale for La Strada, Italian director Federico Fellini's poignant film about traveling circus performers..."
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