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Federico Fellini: Marcello Mastroianni
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One of the most influential and popular works by Federico Fellini, LA DOLCE VITA follows "the sweet life" of a tabloid journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) who covers the glitzy show business life in Rome. In constant search for the next big scandal, he is continually seduced by the decadent life led by Rome's pampered rich.
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Federico Fellini's masterpiece boasts Marcello Mastroianni as a journalist who has put aside his serious career aspirations to report on the shallow, jet-setting denizens of Rome. While writing his tabloid stories, Mastroianni encounters prostitutes, buxom actresses, religious fervor and personal tragedy while trying make sense of the decadent lifestyle he has been seduced by. With Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Lex Barker, Yvonne Furneaux; music by Nino Rota. 167 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo, Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary; bonus shorts; interviews; photo gallery; biographies; filmographies. In Italian with English subtitles. Two-disc set.
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Intervista (1988) concentrates all the issues reflecting on cinema itself since 8½ in what Fellini called a "filmetto" - an intimate "little film." In a documentary vein, a group of Japanese journalists visit Fellini at Cinecittà for an interview while he prepares sets and screen tests for an adaptation of Kafka's Amerika. Fellini's re-creation of his first visit to Cinecittà as a young journalist to interview the diva star of the spectacle in production is the film's concurrent fictional thread. And when Marcello Mastroianni appears fresh from the set of another film (ostensibly), Fellini hijacks the actor for a visit to the home of Anita Ekberg where the much older actors screen the Trevi Fountain sequence from La dolce vita. Although Amerika is a project that was never carried out, Intervista is in an amalgam genre that considers its author's present and past, or what Fellini called a "live" film ("un film in diretta").
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Federico Fellini's imaginative voyage into the world of women - or, more accurately, into the world of male fantasies about women, set adrift in the threatening seas of middle-age and feminism. Part apocalyptic joyride, part funhouse, part dream, part vaudeville, City of Women stars Marcello Mastroianni in an outlandish work of fantasy and humor. Italian with enhanced English subtitles. Italy, 1980, 138 mins.
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Fellini once played God: he was the vagabond whom a peasant (Anna Magnani) mistakes for Jesus in Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle (1948). For Fellini... God was a goddess and woman was the world -- everything in the world that excites and frightens, forbids and enchants. To Marcello in La Dolce Vita, woman is "mother, sister, daughter, lover, angel, home." How small and sad and funny men are in comparison! At one end of the spectrum they are like the midget bluenose in Boccaccio 70 (1962) overwhelmed by Anita Ekberg as a sexual giantess -- it's the attack of the 50-ft. libido.
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