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Federico Fellini: Directors
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September 2003: Rome, Italy, marks the 10th anniversary of Fellini's death with a festival called "Romacord," which features exhibits of memorabilia and screenings of the director's films. Source: Associated Press, http://customwire.ap.org, July 28, 2003.
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Synopsis: Intervista has been termed a semi-documentary: This is in fact the filmed autobiography of Italian director Federico Fellini, framed in the form of an interview conducted by a Japanese film crew. As the interview progresses Fellini's mind wanders to his earliest days (the reenacted events conflictRead More
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In 1992, Fellini worked in close collaboration with Canadian director Damian Pettigrew on a long final interview for the cinematic portrait (2002) that has been described as the maestro's "spiritual testament" by Fellini biographer Tullio Kezich. [11]
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Fellini is the great film director about whom much is said and little is understood. BIOGRAPHY® sets the record straight with this insightful profile of the imaginative and passionate master of cinema.
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While neorealism may have been Fellini's postwar cinematic context, individualism was the prevailing ideological current as he emerged as a scriptwriter and director. Individualism, of course, has a long history in Western culture. However, in the last 200 years, it has become synonymous with American ideology--and Fellini was heavily influenced in his youth by the American popular-culture promise of individual freedom . . . .
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His interest in Jung had encouraged Fellini totally to abandon realism, and he kicked over the traces of his minor casting. After telling Rondi that 'actors dressed up as emperors, directors, magicians and priests fit in well with this story', he went in the opposite direction and dressed writers, restaurateurs, salesmen and businessmen as actors.
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