Word: fellinis
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...Back then Hollywood was Doris Day and Jerry Lewis on the low side, Tennessee Williams and biblical spectacles on high. Meanwhile, artists in other countries were leading film to a robust maturity: Ingmar Bergman in Sweden, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard in France, Akira Kurosawa in Japan, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni in Italy, Luis Bunuel in Spain. As each director found a constituency, U.S. distributors would pick up his earlier films, as well as other movies from the same country. Americans got an informed sampling from the world's film banquet...
...allure of foreign-language films was twofold: they had class and they had sex. Ritzy Manhattan soirees were spiced with debates about what was real and what fantasy in Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad or Fellini's 8 1/2, about Antonioni's seductive use of existential ennui. And when foreign films didn't tax the brain, they stirred the loins. In pouty Brigitte Bardot, in statuesque peasant Sophia Loren, in the knowing rapture of Jeanne Moreau, Americans saw ideals of glamour more complex than Jayne Mansfield. Even Bergman gave you bosoms along with the angst. These films were invitations...
...Federico Fellini [director of “8 ½”] is a hero. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi [Indian physicist who helped introduce transcendent meditation to the world] is a hero...
DIED. TONINO DELLI COLLI, 81, prolific Italian cinematographer whose adaptive nature and masterly use of light allowed him to capture the moods of such noted directors as Federico Fellini and Roman Polanski; in Rome. Delli Colli gave a distinct look to every film he worked on--choosing supersaturated hues for Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and unadorned black and white for his collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini on The Gospel According to St. Matthew. He retired his camera after shooting Life Is Beautiful...
...movement was not merely confined to music. The Tropicalists extended their reach into literature and cinema, with Gil citing influences from intellectuals such as Heidegger and Nietzsche, as well as filmmakers Godard and Fellini. The Tropicalists even made their way onto to the television screen, with a short-lived experimental show, “Divino, maravilhoso,” showcasing the group and all of its facets...