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Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life, by Federico Fellini, who directed La Strada (TIME...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life, by Federico Fellini, who directed La Strada (TIME...
Vitelloni (API-Jamus). A dying art, like a rotting fruit, may hold the seed of a new birth. In Italy, as the so-called realistic cinema has decayed, a vital new talent has emerged: Federico Fellini. Last summer La Strada (The Road) revealed him to U.S. audiences as an artist of uncertain means but of startling sensibility. Vitelloni, completed in 1953, a year before La Strada, secured Fellini's fame in Europe. It is a finer piece of work than La Strada in every way. Technically, it is an elegant exercise in cinematic diction. Literarily, it is a murderous...
...Strada is a haunting journey along little-travelled roads. Dealing with the problem of tragic loneliness and with the idea that everyone on earth has a particular place and purpose is not a new project for a film, but to illustrate his themes the director Federico Fellini has chosen singular characters in unusual places and situations...
...permit for his .38-cal. Smith & Wesson, serial number 242332. "What do you use a revolver for?" gasped one of the reporters. "Fortunately, I haven't had to use it at all," replied John Foster Dulles. He explained that Costa Rica's President (1917-19) Federico Tinoco had given him the pistol in 1917, when Dulles was traveling on horseback through the jungles of Central America. It turned out that Dulles on this ride had indeed used his Smith & Wesson, to kill a wildcat...