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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Secular Sermons | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Daniel J. Singal, | Title: Variety Lights | 11/16/1965 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 18, 1964 | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Devil in Diapers | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Most Humanly Hobo | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

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