Word: fellini
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...THIS IS FELLINI'S Rome, no one che's, and it is no place you can go. Roma may have the trappings of documentary but it has the flesh of sheer fantasy. It has no more to do with the public, historical Rome than Fellini Satyricon had to do with Petronius...
...Fellini's Rome is his hallucination, constructed out of studio parts on a million dollar budget. It is to be the city of his imagination, something mythic, and anything so conventional as reality is drastically out of place. So the documentary surface is mere bare-faced pretence. The film moves in a sequence of discreet setpieces--imaginative sashays from bordello to palazzo, now nostalgic, now futuristic--a self-conscious patchwork of familiar imagery in a new extravagance. Fellini is banking on the strength of his own sensibility to hold all the elements together, and the film is as interesting...
CHERI COMPLEX Fellini's Roma, 1:30, 3:35, 5:30, Across 110th Street, 11:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, Jermiah Johnson...
Bergman loathed parties and was averse to travel outside his usual working orbit of Fårö and Stockholm. Once when he did venture to Rome to see Federico Fellini, his favorite film director, Liv could barely budge him from the hotel room. He insisted that they return every day to the first restaurant they had tried; luckily for both they had not stopped at a snack bar. At dinner he always ordered for both of them. When she recently dined at a restaurant with Bergman and his new wife, Ingrid, Liv watched curiously to see if the pattern...
...deserted platform and confronts a raucously singing spike-heeled floozy who throws open her fur coat to reveal a chintzy Miss America costume. Then four creatures who look like skid row relics show up with battered horns and even more battered music. Not only is it imitative of Fellini, but it is totally irrelevant...