Word: fellinis
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...there room in modern cinema for individual vision and talent? Can a film ever be a wholly personal project? Not within this paradigm. Even if one looks at the films of the "auteurs" of the last century, one will find collaboration as a foundational ingredient. Fellini, Bergman, Hitchcock, Scorsese, etc.: all have been able to create collaborations between artists of singular vision (What would Fellini be without Giulietta Masina? What would Scorsese be without the great screenplays of Schrader and Pileggi?) The genius of these directors comes from their powers of orchestration and coordination. In general, films are mass conglomerations...
...dreamed that America turned into a Fellini movie...
...speech with emphatic gesticulations, and in my dream, I think to myself: They have, by this fanatical spiritual politics, metamorphosed the Boy into the Dictator. The Boy's video speech is a parody (simultaneously innocent and sinister) of the Beard's famously fervent and empty orations. Nice touch, Fellini...
...Fellini shows me an elevator at a university building in Boston. A crowd enters the elevator. One person mentions the Boy's name. By the time the elevator reaches the sixth floor, a sectarian argument of unexpected heat has erupted among these strangers...
...ashamed to be associated with pop culture this week. In fact, these past seven days might just drive me to become... edgy. I should go out and buy horned-rimmed glasses and a matching smoking jacket, start hanging out at the Signet, watch Fellini in my spare time and invite discussions of Goethe instead of Cher--because, lord knows, I can't even begin to defend anything that happened this week in entertainment. (Maybe it's because I missed "Dawson's Creek"--the only thing that can possibly temper my spirits.) So what prompted such drastic disillusionment? A couple nights...