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Federico Fellini: La Dolce Vita
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Fellini's gradual slipping away gave ample time to prepare obituaries and tributes. The flops were forgotten, and his triumphs recalled with enthusiasm. Both church and government declared theselves ready to reverse a half-century of disapproval. Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, Vatican Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, announced that, as a 'friend of the family,' he would officiate at the funeral. President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, who, thirty-three years before, had denounced La Dolce Vita in the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano for its 'scenes of perversino, prostitution, and orgiastic eroticism', confirmed he would lead the mourners.
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Eisenhauer, Robert G."Greek aliases and Roman icons : comedic motivation from the Odes of Horace to Fellini's La dolce vita." In: Parables of disfiguration : reason and excess from romanticism to the avant-garde / Robert Eisenhauer. New York : Peter Lang, c2005. Main Stack PS88.E37 2005 Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006770.html
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At other times, in discussion, Fellini would edge away from any too obvious moral meaning [for La Dolce Vita], including too close a connection with a "Christian point of view." he said he didn't want the film thought of as a kind of trial, but if taken as such, it was "not a trial sen by a judge, but rather by an accomplice."
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The two films that brought international acclaim to Fellini are the 1957 Academy Award winning La Strada and La Dolce Vita, winner of the 1960 Cannes Film Festival Award. Amarcord earned Fellini his second Academy Award in 1973.
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