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Tag Archives: Frederico Fellini
satyricon: fellini and creative crudeness
Fellini’s Satyricon- a pagan spectacle as it was in Nero’s time and certainly may be in our own… All the scenes of Fellini’s Satyricon possess a nightmarish vividness. Fellini took Petronius’s account and gave it a suitably phantasmgoric story line, … Continue reading
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Tagged Frederico Fellini, Petronius Satyricon
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satyricon: angering the sex-god priapus
Did Fellini mine the original to create his own brutto spettacolo of a pagan world- as it was in Nero’s time, and as it may be in our own? … In his film adaptation of Petronius’s Satyricon Frederico Fellini created a … Continue reading
women and what men really want
One argument that will never be satisfactorily resolved concerns the rival claims of nature and nurture as cause for villainy. Are villains, like poets, born and not made? Nature and nurture must both have a part to play, and there … Continue reading
laughter in the house
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura/- nature over intellect. And the happiest tale of all is the odyssey that ends with…laughter in the house. To begin with, the Happy Ending. Aristotle calls it the … Continue reading
auctioned off: quickie sale
The night they auctioned off the Roman Empire. It was not merely an empire, it was the world. … In the second century A.D. Rome stretched across a million and a half square miles, from Scotland to the Sahara, from … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Guccione, Charleton Heston, Claudius Roman Emperor, Didius Julianis, Emperor Caligula, Emperor Nero, Emperor Tiberius, Frederico Fellini, Gore Vidal, Helen Mirren, Macro Praetorian Guard, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Ustinov, Sejanus Praetorian Guard
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unsparing visions of excess
Viridiana, a ferocious imagery that startled movie-goers at its time. The Left ethos that encapsulated everything from Le Chien Andalou ( 1929) , The Young One,The Damned, Stranger in the Room, The Roots, etc. Like Bergman and Fellini this was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bunuel Land Without Bread, Bunuel Viridiana, Chaplin City Lights, Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, Frederico Fellini, Garcia de Quevedo, Ingmar Bergman, Lazarillo de Tormes, Luis Bunuel, Perez Galdos, Salvador dali
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naples yellow: pots of peculiar gold
Italian neo-realismo. Very much a complement to, and reaction towards, the American ideological war as docu-drama that took flight in Germany after WWII and ran the gamut clunker to precursor to cinema verite. Italian realismo was not created in a … Continue reading
that was quick.
In the bat of an eye. Lightning.I caught Arturo Brachetti on television last night,on the uber-popular Quebec talk show “Tous le Monde en Parle” hosted by Guy Lepage.As circumstances had it, Brachetti was sitting beside a priest and he really … Continue reading
general rovere’s ride
Complicity and redemption… It might not be comparable to Open City, but General Della Rovere by Rossellini, for its meanings and its movements, had to be taken seriously. After the initial drive of italian neo-realimo picures poured forth in the … Continue reading
paisan: real to reel
Impressive. The Italian neo-realists encapsulated the entire postwar delapidation, nihilism and then re-birth by refusing to dodge the issues by intoxicating themselves with pretty pipe dreams and resonant extravaganzas, avoiding the temptation to money making based on the Hollywood formula … Continue reading
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Tagged David Lean, Frederico Fellini, Harriet White, Helen Levitt, klaus mann, luigi zampa, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Carne, Mario Bava, renato castellani, Riccardo Freda, roberto rossellini, sy wexler, Thomas Mann, vittorio de sica
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