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...Hours is for the independent moderates; those of you who would be just as happy if Fellini and Bertolucci were items on the Bel Canto menu, but who are not afraid to call a schlock a schlock. Among you, 48 Hours will step up beside The French Connection as a street movie classic...
Onward and upward with the arts. First he outsolemnized Ingmar Bergman with Interiors. Then, with Stardust Memories, he scored a modest 5 out of Fellini's 8½. Now Woody Allen has transported Shakespeare's "wood near Athens" to upstate New York at the turn of this century for A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. As might be expected, none of these homage-pastiches measures up to the original. But then, neither Bergman nor Fellini nor even Shakespeare ever tried writing a Woody Allen comedy...
Indeed, it can be said that without Tune "Nine"almost certainly would have been "Zero." Based on Federico Fellini's 1968 movie 8½, it is the story of an Italian film director who has sought refuge at a Venetian spa, where he is desperately trying to put together a film and at the same time make sense out of his disorderly life. Arthur Kopit's book is confusing, Maury Yeston's music is forgettable, and his lyrics are banal. Yet Tune's direction is so lively one tends to forget all that. Most directors would...
...Vladimir Kagan, 55, many of whose sofas, desks, chairs and bedroom furnishings are custom-made with Plexiglas, marble, bronze, leather, lacquer or textiles. Kagan's work lacks the devout simplicity of pure crafts manship and often looks as though it had been swiped from the set of Fellini's La Dolce Vita...
Adapted from Fellini's film 8½, "Nine" stars a film director with a creative block. Guido Contini (Raul Julia) is a world-renowned movie mogul whose last three movies have been flops. He now has a contract for a new film and a producer, Liliane La Fleur (Liliane Monte-vecchi), who in her barbed tyrannical needling could pass muster as Erich von Stroheim in drag...