Federico Fellini

Not a Travel Film: Fellini's Roma

Network Awesome | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Italy, Film, Roma, Foreign Films, Federico Fellini, Federico Fellini Films, Fellini Films, Rome Films, Fellini Roma, Video, Entertainment News
Network Awesome

It is an idea that Fellini sticks to when putting his vast, multi-colored spotlight on his home city. But like any major metropolitan city, it is only one facet of its massive whole.

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Salvador Dali's Favorite Supermodel

Ben Arogundade | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Black Models, William Claxton, Kate Moss, Donyale Luna, Diana Vreeland, Lucien Freud, Salvador Dali, Paco-Rabanne-Dress, Vogue Magazine, Helmut Newton, African American Women, Jourdan Dunn, Andy Warhol, Art, Harper's Bazaar, Federico Fellini, Paco Rabanne, Black Beauty, Richard Avedon, African American Beauty, Damien Hirst, African Americans, First Black Supermodel, Hair & Beauty, Hair-Beauty-Beauty, Black Voices News
Ben Arogundade

The renowned surrealist painter Salvador Dali's meeting with seminal African-American supermodel, Donyale Luna, at his hideaway in the Spanish fishing village of Cadaqués, Catalonia in 1966 marked an amazing moment where art and beauty collide.

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25 Foreign Films Even Subtitle Haters Should See

John Farr | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Yasujiro Ozu, Francois Truffaut, Abbas Kiarostami, Academy Awards, Arthouse, The Lives of Others, Gael Garcia Bernal, Leo Tolstoy, Best Movies by Farr, War and Peace, Akira Kurosawa, Alfonso Cuaron, Marcello Mastroianni, Florian Henckel Con Donnersmarck, Jean Renoir, Wong Kar Wai, Claudia Cardinale, Federico Fellini, Foreign Films, Louis Malle, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Fritz Lang, Subtitles, Zhang Yimou, Satyajit Ray, Ulrich Muhe, Werner Herzog, Anna Magnani, Walter Salles, Best Movies on DVD, Jean Gabin, Best Movies, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Peter Lorre, Klaus Kinski, Entertainment News
John Farr

Reading subtitles is a lot like riding a bicycle. Practice not only makes perfect, soon enough it's second nature so you don't even notice you're doing it. This particularly holds true when you're watching something great.

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Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Jim Jones Revue, Back to School, Martin Scorsese, Edwards Scissorhands, Akira Kurosawa, Dimitri Tiomkin, Carlos Chaivez, Rob Zombie, Pierre Yuksek, The Drums, Marilyn Manson, Steven Spielberg, Pavement, Rush, A Clock Orange, Bernard Herrmann, Kinky, Dick Tracy, Daft Punk, Werner Herzog, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ariel Pink, Devo, Richard Craft, Lincoln Center, Slayer, The Voyage of Sinbad, Tim Burton, Max Steiner, John Huston, Russ Meyer, Gerry Casale, Woolite, A Perfect Circle, Harlem, Kii Arens, U2, Phoenix, Comedy Central, Jell-O, Slipknot, Broadway Danny Rose, Weird Science, Forbidden Zone, The Lords of Salem, Joni Mitchell, Army of Darkness, Danny Elfman, Sebastien Teller, Stanley Kubrick, Jeffrey Miller, Jason Trucco, Beetlejuice, Paul Simon, Seb Caudron, Alice in Wonderland, Big Fish, Alfred Hitchcock, Silverchair, The Pixies, Jason & the Argonauts, Federico Fellini, Tom Papa, Ginger Fish, Gus Van Sant, Smith Westerns, Franz Waxman, Alexandre Desplat, Roman Polanski, Richard Prior, Carny, Midnight Run, Oingo Boingo, Stephen Colbert, Gary Busey, The Cars, Batman, The Static Revenger, Steve Martin, John Williams, Iron Maiden, Allison Krause, White Zombie, The Bewitched Hands, Jon Stewart, Twyla Tharpe, Soundgarden, Aaron Sorkin, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Nono Rota, Air, Paul Reubens, Peatport, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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La Dolce Vita, More Dolce Than Ever

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rome Film Festival, Film, Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Rome, Cinema, Entertainment News
Sam Wasson

Fifty years after La Dolce Vita's original release, the film has been restored from its original widescreen negative for the clean up of a lifetime.

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First-Nighter: London's Sweet Charity Sufficiently Sweet

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park With George, Dorothy Fields, Menier Chocolate Factory, Tiffany Graves, Paul J Medford, Mark Umbers, Little Shop of Horrors, Giullietta Masina, Gwen Verdon, Bob Fosse, Josefina Gabrielle, Matthew Wright, La Cage Aux Folles, Matthew White, Tim Shortall, Stephen Mear, Neil Simon, Federico Fellini, Cy Coleman, Tasmin Outhwaite, Nights of Cabiria, Sweet Charity, Entertainment News
David Finkle

These days, the clever fabric manufacturers able to do whatever they want with a proven musical comedy are the folks at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

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Movie Review: Nine Misses the Mark

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antonio Banderas, 81/2, Tommy Tune, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Federico Fellini, Sophia Loren, Fergie, Nine Movie Review, Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Nine is a tour of Guido Contini's imagination and memory, writ large as a musical. Not a musical comedy; there aren't many laughs.

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Nine

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alfa Romeo, Movie Reviews, Daniel Day-Lewis, Musicals, Federico Fellini, Nine, Amacord, Rome, Chicago News
Michael Jones

Who can dislike a movie that allows you to dream of tooling around Roma with a beautiful woman by your side in a 1960s Alfa Romeo convertible?

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Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: Roger Corman and His Oscar

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Francis Coppola, Katt Shea, Ron Howard, Peter Fonda, Igmar Bergman, Joe Dante, Martin Scorsese, Barbara Hershey, Nancy Sinatra, Motion Picture Academy, Penelope Spheeris, Roger Corman, Sylvester Stallone, Angie Dickinson, Bruce Dern, Peter Bogdanovich, Federico Fellini, Shelley Winters, Jonathan Demme, Oscars, Curtis Hanson, Gale Anne Hurd, Jack Nicholson, Schlondorff, Kurosawa, Wenders, Truffaut, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2009-11-12-cormanoutside.jpg He is the unbearable lightness of being a director, producer, actor, mentor. He is the most effervescent of gentlemen, one who has that gene for making it all look easy.

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Nine

Charlotte Chandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlotte Chandler, 8 1/2, Daniel Day Lewis, Nine, Federico Fellini, Entertainment News
Charlotte Chandler

Federico Fellini told me that the theme of his life was "dreams are the only reality." "No one ever perceives the real world," he said. "Each person simply calls private, personal fantasies the Truth. The difference is that I know I live in a fantasy world."

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The Italian Man And His Solitudes

Marta Mondelli | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Prick, Vitelloni, 81/2, Vera Farmiga, Italy, Bachelor, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Federico Fellini, Up in the Air, Italian Man, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine, Max Ophuls, Healthy Living News
Marta Mondelli

The only good thing about Nine is that it reminded me of a figure any woman who spends some time in Italy is bound to meet: the Italian Man par excellence, the "sciupafemmine", the Fellini man.

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Joe Wright's The Soloist Exploits the Skid Row Community

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Times, Ben Hong, Safer City Inititiative, The Soloist, Steve Lopez, Poverty, Los Angeles Community Action Network, Incarceration, LA CAN, Jiulliard School of Performing Arts, Jaywalking, Downtown Los Angeles, Atonement, Los Angeles, Lamp Community, Mental Illness, Casey Huran, Skid Row, Homelessness, Federico Fellini, Gary Foster, Lawlessness, Los Angeles Times, Pride and Prejudice, Joe Wright, Nathaniel Ayers, Gentrification, Sci, Entertainment News
Linda Milazzo

Instead of telling the tales of the homeless, the film portrayed them as a Fellini-esque monolith -- a tainted Gomorrah teeming with decadence and dereliction.

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The Best City Movies by Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yasujiro Ozu, Orson Welles, Al Pacino, Burt Lancaster, Faye Dunaway, Cities, Movies, John Huston, Henry Fonda, Marcello Mastroianni, Michael Caine, Jules Dassin, Sidney Lumet, Federico Fellini, Shelley Winters, Best Sidney Lumet Movies, Richard Widmark, Classic Movies, Great City Movies, Jack Nicholson, Elia Kazan, Tony Curtis, Entertainment News
John Farr

For those of you who love cities, movies, and by extension, cities in movies, here's a batch of capital DVD titles, and the capitals that inspired them.

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