Word: satyricon
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...Strawberry Statement, both vile), the year three major studios placed their fiscal futures on the line with expensive extravaganzas (Paramount, Catch-22; 20th-Century Fox, Tora! Tora! Tora!; and MGM, Ryan's Daughter ), and the year Europe's three best-known directors came up with relatively disappointing work (Fellini, Satyricon; Antonioni, Zabriskie Point; Bergman, The Passion of Anna...
...months later one could say it. It didn't work. Elvis gives us an hour of Elvis in rehearsal, and the International in preparation, and then an other hour of Elvis performing before a tiered dining room of 2000 jeweled and mantanned manikins, a scene worthy of Fellini's Satyricon...
...paleness of pallid flesh, are demonically spell-binding. In fact, the succession of images-a giant stone head of Mussolini dragged across a bridge by two motorcycles, the fire-lit nude body of a homosexual eating dead cats amid the ruins of the Forum, Trintignant's eyes-recalls Fellini Satyricon in their bizarre intensity. It's a perverse film, as perverse as Fascism, and that analogy is in many ways the point of the movie...
...Sloane (Peter McEnery) is a blond thug cursed with bisexual charm. In the Satyricon, he would have been one of the boys in Fellini's band. Still, if one cannot have pre-Christian Rome, contemporary London will do. Sunning himself in a graveyard one afternoon, Sloane is taken in-in every sense-by Kath (Beryl Reid). She is a bloated harpy who will never need silicone or estrogen. Enter two gentlemen who provide complications and multiply laughter. Kath's father Dadda (Alan Webb) is a senescent buzzard; her brother Ed (Harry Andrews) is a lantern-jawed caricature...
...what is wrong with the Western World in the 20th century). In Juliet of the Spirits, which was also somewhat confusing, one did have a feeling that beneath the strange faces and events was a statement that was worth the time unravelling. I have no such confidence in Fellini Satyricon...