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HARVARD SQUARE THEATER. Fellini's Roma 1:15, 5:30, 9:40 Women in Love...
...Fellini Roma. The Fellini imagination roams through the city of his own making. A disjointed collection of documentary fantasy that can be, much of the time, an invigorating little plume in Fellini's panache...
...presumption of the interview, as of the rest of Simon's book, is that Bergman is the greatest genius the cinema has produced. The sum of his artistry, in Simon's view, surpasses all other film-makers'; the individual works are unmatched except by Fellini and Antonioni at their best. In the interview. Simon tells Bergman his judgment straight off, but the book is by no means mere obeisance, though the unsparing acidity characteristic of Simon's New York magazine theater column corrodes few Bergman frames...
Tango's explosive impact will demonstrate to a wide public what many film buffs already know: that Bertolucci, 31, is Italy's most gifted director in the generation after Fellini and Antonioni, and one of the most gifted younger directors on the world scene (see box, page 54). It will also introduce, in the role of the young girl, a striking new performer: France's sensual, baby-faced Maria Schneider, 20, whose blithely amoral charm perfectly expresses the contem porary...
...Fellini finds the decay exhilarating and embraces impending doom beneath the surface. In the final sequence a troop of goggled motorcyclists roar through the rubbish of Rome on a joyride, anonymous heralds of catastrophe. Fellini whirls his camera through the city on one last dazzling tour before speeding off, after the cyclists, out of the cuts into the darkness, greeting the apocalypse with an empty grin...