Word: masina
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...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 of talent and effort; cast and crew combine to produce a finished product under the direction of a guiding force...
...Italy in ravishing color. A spoonful of Italian sugar makes the thriller go down so easy that one wonders whether the ghost of Federico Fellini wasn't smiling on this one. Why not? Thomas Ripley isn't really all that different from Fellini's heroines: like, say, Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria. They are just two lost idealists looking up at the beautiful world they can't quite enter themselves. But while Masina laughs, Ripley rends. The difference is heartbreaking...
...confessional glosses on 8 1/2). Male, yes, but with a stethoscope auditing the heart of a woman. La Strada, Cabiria, Juliet and Ginger and Fred (1983) are four sympathetic diagnoses of vital women used by weak men. They are also, of course, dynamic showcases for the talents of Giulietta Masina, who for 49 years was Signora Fellini. In his films she was the average, put-upon feminine spirit, just as Marcello Mastroianni was the gallantly anguished soul of modern...
...Strada" on Oct. 28 at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. Fellini's early masterpiece and the film that brought him international acclaim, "La Strada" has been out of distribution since 1988. The timeless story of an innocent peasant girl employed and seduced by an itinerant circus strongman. Giulietta Masina is outstanding as Gelsomina the waif, and Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart's performances equal hers as the two men in her life...
Guilietta Masina is charming as the wide eyed Gelsomina, who seems unable to get angry over others' cruelty to her. Masina's Gelsomina gazes at the world with wonder, although there can be little wonderful about its realities for her. Fellini offsets her timidity, which practically amounts to a social stupidity, against her purity of spirit. The combination gives her a childlike, saintly aura...