Word: fellini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SHIP SAILS ON Directed by Federico Fellini Screenplay by Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
...girth and his group are emblematic of all the excesses of emotion and behavior that the gilded age has up to now permitted all of the Gloria N. 's passengers to indulge. In fact, the point Federico Fellini wants to make in the liveliest, funniest and most assured movie he has directed in years is that the time for these absurdities is over. From Sarajevo onward, he is saying, the only follies grand enough to impose themselves on the world's consciousness will be political, and far more menacing than these little cultural lunacies...
...addicted to the networks. TEC had a ten-year contract with the BBC for first rights in the U.S., and nearly 40% of its fare was composed of such British shows as the political spoof Yes, Minister and the detective series Shoestring. Besides showing distinctive foreign films (Federico Fellini's City of Women, Eric Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife), TEC had exclusive rights to such Broadway shows as Pippin and Sweeney Todd...
...were finding it harder to attract attention, especially in the American market. The "art houses" of the 1960s, where a United Nations of cinema once reigned, now play host to mainstream movies from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Critics' groups, which had regularly knighted Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, now bestow their awards on Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack. With many American critics, moviemakers and moviegoers on a slumming spree, the intellectual cachet of European films has been broken. But there is still cinematic ingenuity to be found outside the U.S., and sometimes even in U.S. movie theaters. Three...
...Hours is for the independent moderates; those of you who would be just as happy if Fellini and Bertolucci were items on the Bel Canto menu, but who are not afraid to call a schlock a schlock. Among you, 48 Hours will step up beside The French Connection as a street movie classic...