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...Diane Keaton) to see a film. Behind the couple is an obnoxious pseudo-intellectual (who we later find out is a professor at Columbia) mindlessly nattering on and on about every topic imaginable. The professor's knowledge knows no bounds: we are subjected first to criticism of Federico Fellini's oeuvre, then to a savage diatribe against Samuel Beckett. Names are dropped with impunity, including that of media theorist Marshall McLuhan...
When Stone finally got around to discussing the role of personal vision in film, he shuffled through a few more cliches before revealing his ultimate desire: an intensely personal film with the director as subject, a la Fellini's film-on-film...
...armpit; in Sigismondi's clip for The Beautiful People, we see writhing worms, rows of stomping fascistic boots and Manson's mouth pushed open by some cruel dental device. The songs themselves are dumb and brutal, but the videos have a ghastly playfulness that evokes David Lynch and Federico Fellini...
...defender of America's "junk culture," but I can't help feeling patronized by your article "Fellini, Go Home!" Face it, subtitles turn a movie into a job. Dubbing just sounds phony. If writers and directors choose to work in languages other than English, fine. But don't belittle me for staying home. GORDON ELY Richmond, Virginia...
...older, world-weary image--a touch of gray at the temples, a wistfulness for waylaid innocence--that made Mastroianni a worldwide star. As the Dolce Vita gossipist, the moviemaker in Fellini's great 8 1/2 (1963) and the writer in Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte (1961), he moved like a man in perpetual postcoital ennui, elevating spiritual passivity to a metaphysic and a fashion statement. "Mastroianni" became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who's been...