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Indeed, it can be said that without Tune "Nine"almost certainly would have been "Zero." Based on Federico Fellini's 1968 movie 8½, it is the story of an Italian film director who has sought refuge at a Venetian spa, where he is desperately trying to put together a film and at the same time make sense out of his disorderly life. Arthur Kopit's book is confusing, Maury Yeston's music is forgettable, and his lyrics are banal. Yet Tune's direction is so lively one tends to forget all that. Most directors would...
...DIED. Federico De Laurentiis, 26, son of Movie Producer Dino De Laurentiis (The Serpent's Egg, King Kong) and Italian Actress Silvana Magnano (Bitter Rice, Barabbas) and himself the producer of the 1978 film King of the Gypsies; of injuries received in the mid-air collision of two light planes while he was shooting a documentary on Alaska's annual fish harvest; over Kvichak Bay, Alaska...
...album from which it comes represent a significant change of direction for her. She talks seriously about "the new romanticism, which is very big in England right now." She has done a video presentation of Bette Davis Eyes that looks like a production number from Scaramouche as directed by Federico Fellini. In fact, her Minstrels past and her new romantic future seem equally synthetic. She has, simply, a good solid way with a ballad. She is the kind of stylist an earlier time would have called a thrush, and despite what she calls her "perpetual frog," she sings...
GOOD LUCK with the motivation behind City of Women, Federico Fellini's latest baroque-nightmare-cum-flesh-fantasy. Food for thought and conversation, perhaps, but it yields no neat, coherent conceptual summary--better just to sit back and savor...
Eighteen years ago, in 8½ Federico Fellini confessed that he was a director who had nothing to say, and despite the arresting imagery with which he made his mea culpa, one was more than willing to concede the point. In the next seven films he demonstrated it with ever more empty extravagance. Now, confronting this gaudily misanthropic survey of how feminism has tipped the balance of power in the war between the sexes, one finds that one has moved beyond outrage and impatience to simple weariness...