Word: fellinis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joyce," said George Bluestone in Novels Into Films, "would seem as absurd on film as Chaplin would in print." Chaplin is probably not the most apt comparison to Joyce--Fellini or Bergman are more appropriate. One would be hard put to translate 8 1/2 or Persona into print and still maintain any semblance of the original. Yet, in 1967 Joseph Strick and Fred Haines courted disaster by writing a screen adaptation for James Joyce's Ulysses. The absurdity of the undertaking provides a perfect example of the irreconcilable differences between the two media. Ulysses, published in 1922, was hailed...
...Fellini Roma...
There are some other good films showing in Cambridge this week--though, compared to most weeks, this one is almost dismal. The documentary festival and the two Fellini films at Brattle are the main attractions...
CURRIER HOUSE DINING HALL, Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits...
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) is a fantasy by Fellini that doesn't look like a Fellini film. Fellini made this film about a crumbling marriage because, he said, marriage "has been made into a myth, told in an inexact and treacherous manner...