Word: satyricon
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...Satyricon--A vile Fellini phantasmagoria based on Petronius but lacking the wit and lightness of the epicurean's touch. With Marat Sade, Peter Brook's sensational and sensationalistic production of the finally incoherent Peter Weiss play. CINEMA 733 (Thurs. and Fri.) Call 266-0342 for times...
...until finally the follies and the Follies merge into one surrealistic nightmare. The play within the play (titled "Loveland") is as depressing as anything I've seen in the recent months (and that says a hell of a lot). It is roughly a combination of No, No Nanette! and Satyricon. The costumes are out-of-this-world in their vulgar beauty, to the point of becoming eerie; female chorines turn out to be men; a sprightly tap-dance number turns out to express one character's perception of how he hates himself...
When Fellini Satyricon was reviewed, Kauffmann found the film to be a botched work of art; but he spoke of its failure in terms of Fellini's wish to depart from the autobiographical veins which he had replenished in the course of his career. The emotion expressed by Kauffmann was sympathy, only faintly supercilious...
...Fellini Satyricon, an American journalist named Eileen Lanouette Hughes strives for Rossian statement, and fails quite obviously. Hughes, a Life correspondent, has penned a six-month diary account of the production of Il Maestro's extravagant, phantasmagoric bore. As Fellini claimed, the director did most of the creative work for the project in the scripting stages; thus, the detailed production notes are particularly fruitless, except for those who hunger for glimpses of the Great Man in action. As recounted by Hughes, the sight simply isn't that inspiring...
...least the sycophants during Huston's heyday were Runyon-esque characters, always possessed of a half-funny story to heal the pain of compromised filmmaking. In On the Set of Fellini Satyricon, the sycophants pretend to be intellectuals. Tragically that is how they are sometimes accepted...