Word: strada
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...nonexistent son suggests contemporary man's inability to distinguish fantasy from reality. The Rev. A. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Methodist Church uses movies and folk-rock songs as themes. Last year he related one sermon to a line from Fellini's La Strada-Anthony Quinn's complaint, "All I want is to be left alone." Williams then argued that this gruff individualism denies a basic fact of life, which is that men must be together...
Characters who later appear in La Strada or 8 1/2 can be found, if you care to look for them. For example, a flabby stripper in the revue later turns up as the famous Saraghina in 8 1/2. Haggard actors tramping along dusty country roads surely foreshadow La Strada. By contrast, the extended aerial shots of Rome lack only the helicopter and Christ of La Dolce Vita...
...BIDONE. Though it sometimes seems a fumbling first version of 81/2, this Italian tragicomedy about a smalltime swindler (Broderick Crawford) in bishop's clothing stirs interest as the missing volume of Director Federico Fellini's "trilogy of Solitude" begun wi:h La Strada and ending in Le Notti di Cabiria...
...were only that, II Bidone would seem no more than a fairly interesting failure. Fortunately, it possesses an extrinsic significance: it is the missing volume of Federico Fellini's famous "trilogy of solitude," the shambling and disreputable pseudo-masterpiece that started with La Strada (1954) and culminated in Le Notti di Cabiria...
...Hobo is a Japanese comedy in the Italian manner. The fine Japanese hand of Director Zenzo Matsuyama has blended the smiles-and-tears vagabondage of La Strada with the bumbling malfeasance of Big Deal on Madonna Street into a Campari and sake cocktail that may be bitter at first sip but is warm on the aftertaste...