Word: fellini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Fellini Satyricon was reviewed, Kauffmann found the film to be a botched work of art; but he spoke of its failure in terms of Fellini's wish to depart from the autobiographical veins which he had replenished in the course of his career. The emotion expressed by Kauffmann was sympathy, only faintly supercilious...
...Fellini Satyricon, an American journalist named Eileen Lanouette Hughes strives for Rossian statement, and fails quite obviously. Hughes, a Life correspondent, has penned a six-month diary account of the production of Il Maestro's extravagant, phantasmagoric bore. As Fellini claimed, the director did most of the creative work for the project in the scripting stages; thus, the detailed production notes are particularly fruitless, except for those who hunger for glimpses of the Great Man in action. As recounted by Hughes, the sight simply isn't that inspiring...
...Strawberry Statement, both vile), the year three major studios placed their fiscal futures on the line with expensive extravaganzas (Paramount, Catch-22; 20th-Century Fox, Tora! Tora! Tora!; and MGM, Ryan's Daughter ), and the year Europe's three best-known directors came up with relatively disappointing work (Fellini, Satyricon; Antonioni, Zabriskie Point; Bergman, The Passion of Anna...
...Fellini Satyr icon. Rome, Before Christ and After Fellini, with indelible images of surrealism and horror. The master was, once again, self-indulgent. But what indulgence! And what a self...
...better one. He does champion such out-of-current mood directors as Peckinpah and Renoir; he is generally concerned with instituting fashion according to his own "impassioned" integrity rather than merely following the fashionable (though his recent 2001 recantation was curious indeed). With such developments as his labeling of Fellini as the "Busby Berkeley of metaphysics," and a latent inclination towards admirable historical research and social criticism, he seems to be mellowing into adult responsibilities. However, Confessions of a Cultist, containing reviews written between 1955 and 1969, displays the attitudes of the man as he has come to be known...