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...newsman-hero of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and the writer-hero of Luchino Visconti's La Notte. He has proved himself a masterful comedian with his current performance in Pietro Germi's Divorce-Italian Style. With credits like that, he understandably has no interest whatever in learning English. Hollywood has tried repeatedly to lure him, but young men seldom go for old tarts. "What is being done here in Italy," he says, "is far better and much more mature and advanced than anything cinematic being done elsewhere...
Further Decay. It was Dolce Vita's Fellini who exploited most fully the characteristics that had long since made Mastroianni (Mass-tro-yahn-ee) one of the most popular actors in Italy. His handsome face, young in its outlines but creased with premature wrinkles, has a frightened, characteristically 20th century look-as of a mantis who has lost faith in the efficacy of prayer. He suggests the all-round fellow of the 1960s who is the antithesis of Renaissance man-painfully aware of nearly everything, truly able at nothing. His spine seems to be a stack of plastic napkin...
...moral tone of his personality is so positive, in fact, that clever men like Federico Fellini can turn it around on film and find the negative outline of a total and final corruption...
Boccaccio '70. An Italian anthology of amore: three episodes directed by Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...
Playing Themselves. Made last year by Director Franco Rossi (The Woman in the Painting), Smog, in his words, is the story of "the future borghese [bourgeois] headed for ultimate material prosperity. I foresee this soon in Italy, and I wanted to show where we are headed." Director Federico Fellini has foreseen pretty much the same thing, and Smog is a kind of ground-fog version of Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Like Fellini, Rossi weights his work with symbolism and tells his story in round after round of parties. Like Fellini, he used actual people playing themselves...