Word: fellinis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nureyev's Valentino remains a distant figure, a romantic anachronism bursting forth with panache and charisma and little else. Russell seems to persist in the belief that audiences enjoy having their senses assaulted and will consider it entertainment; grotesques and caricatures dot the screen in "Valentino," evoking some of Fellini's lesser films. The ambience of the Twenties is effectively recaptured by the film, but "Valentino" never gets around to addressing the ethos that prevailed in the America of that fabled epoch. And judging by this performance, Michelle Phillips would do well to try a comeback as a reconstructed Mama...
...Niro receives ten scripts per week from agents and producers, who know a bankable commodity when they see one. He is booked up solid for the next two years and could go for six just by saying yes often enough. "Sometimes I feel like I'm in Fellini's 8½," he says, throwing his hands in the air like a frantic juggler. "What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?" He adds quickly: "I'm in control. I am busy because I want to be busy...
...working-class people trying to make a decent living and it's damn hard," Newby, who is currently unemployed, said, gesturing towards the non-union projectionist turning on the first reel of Fellini...
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven. Now that Rainer Werner Fassbinder is being mentioned in the same breath with fellow European director-luminaries Goddard and Fellini on this side of the Atlantic, his work will attract an increasingly demanding eye, and if this latest film is any indication, that scrutiny is all for the good. For Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven alone would never earn the German director the level of status and respect his name now commands, and a final verdict on Fassbinder still seems far off in the distant future. This 1975 release relates the tale of an ageing...
...could easily pass for Socrates emerging from the water. These photographs all evoke multitudes of other images--perhaps a touchstone of worthwhile art is just this ability to reach out beyond itself. Rubinfien's beach house with a heart painted on it might be taken from Fellini's memory. And Germano's trees in Brooklyn, shading clay or plastic Madonnas, remind me of a Brooklyn "miracle" I once heard of... A statuette of the Madonna, enshrined in the hollow of a tree, began to weep. Though it was scientifically determined her tears were only sap, believers continued to trek...