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Оttο е Μеzzо (8½) 1963
This is my favorite Fellini film-- a close call, since there are so many great works by this man, and like anyone's, my mood as a viewer changes from time to time. But when you're hiking in rolling-hilly country, it seems like you're surrounded by hills even when you crest the top of one-- until you happen to find yourself on the highest hill within the visible horizon. Then everything suddenly falls into a perspective you have never encountered until you stood on that highest spot. One pinnacle doesn't block the view of another, and you can see where all the valleys come out, and map the convergence of streams into one interconnected veinwork. A little grandiose, but how else do you feel when you climb a hill like any other, only to discover that it wasn't really like the others?
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Αmаrсοrd 1973
This lovingly humorous retrospective of life in Rimini in the days of the Fascisti is told in such an understated style, compared to any other Fellini film, that it kind of got taken for granted as a minor work when it first came out. It's no surprise to me that Amarcord's reputation has grown, and its standing in the Fellini canon risen-- it is, after all, moviemaking perfection. I had some problems cutting it into clips, ended up watching more of it than all these other films I've prepped for uploading-- everyone should have such problems!
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Gίulіеttа dеglі Ѕрίrіtі 1965
This is an almost wholly internalized drama, made visible to the viewer through the hallucinatory projections of a woman with an inhibited, guilt-ridden heart, a sharp mind embroiled by midlife anger and grievance, and a spirit wounded by those closest to her-- an ice-mountain of a mother and a lying, philandering husband. She has intuitive glimpses of a better world, but she confuses them with Temptation, a monster she was terrorized into fearing by her Catholic upbringing. Her story is one of struggle against just about everything that makes up the life she leads, and a slow, sinuous journey out of that world, a timid but persistent quest to find joy-- and liberation. Of the major Fellini films, this one shows his sardonic penchant running a little rampant, unmitigated by hilarity and parody-- but it is weirdly entertaining in spite of the chill that runs through it, the vertigo you keep feeling as we inch toward the chasm of Giulietta's ever-threatening madness.
This all sounds very dire and dark, but there is a kaleidoscopic beauty to it all, and the serenity it finally resolves into is expansive, soaring, cathartic. Obviously I think a whole lot of this scarce movie, and will be elated to present it to you-- if it holds up against the Forces that Be, of course.
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Lа Dοlсе Vίtа 1960
What can I add to what's been said about this movie? I was 14 when I saw it in a theater, almost the day it came out-- the publicity blitz was effective, and way ahead of its time. I lived in Naples but was fortunate enough to be in Rome at the time, and that added to the experience-- I still remember wandering around the city for a couple hours afterwards, enjoying the illusion that I was still inside the film. Street lighting was not abundant back then, but the dark was punctuated by floodlit tourist sites, all of them in marble as stark as the edge of the shadows they cast-- it was a lot like being in a B&W world. I was as artsy at 14 as I was hormonal, so La Dolce Vita didn't disappoint. As I perambulated, I took on the "existential" mindset of the wounded creative spirit, and thought of Blake's Sick Rose, and yearned to make my self-indulgent mark in a pointless world. The only affront to my ego that night was the absence of paparazzi-- they were off hounding someone else.
I saw the movie again in Naples a couple weeks later with a gang of my buddies, raucous Navy brats. That second showing was much more about Anita Ekberg somehow.
[Note: Check out the version I favorited from RobinSena334455's channel. It may be more suitable if you speak Italian or are watching on YT and can enable the closed captions-- they are out of the frame, and less obtrusive. My version has embedded subtitles for those of you who are downloading-- and for purists, it also preserves the widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio.]
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