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I'm something of a Fellini fanatic, but I've never seen his last movie. Was it ever released in the States? Any word of DVD possibilities?
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Re: La Voce Della Luna
Thu, November 27, 2003 - 12:33 AMI've never seen it either. With certain authors and film directors that I love I find myself -less- interested in seeing or reading everything they've made. I want to leave a little bit undiscovered for a rainy day.
I don't even see a region 2 version of it on dvd, so no luck. I'm sure you are set up to view PAL VHS? (Considering Dolce Vita isn't even out in region 1 until next year, little hope of lesser known films on dvd...). -
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Re: La Voce Della Luna
Tue, December 2, 2003 - 1:01 AMSpeaking of Fellini, did you get the La Strada from Criterion yet? Looks pretty good. The second disc had an hour documentary on him (from Italian TV) that was unfortunately pretty bad. Had some amusing moments though felt like a very long hour. -
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Re: La Voce Della Luna
Tue, December 2, 2003 - 5:29 PMI heard it was out, but I haven't gotten a hold of it myself yet. What made the documentary so bad? -
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Re: La Voce Della Luna
Wed, December 3, 2003 - 1:37 AMIt wasn't horrible, but it had no form. A collection of video and film clips over the years, lots of press conferences and premiere footage. Gets dull after an hour. Not worth an entire second disc for.
I just rented another documentary about Fellini that just came out called "I'm a Born Liar." It was much longer (105 minutes) and much better, featuring a long, original interview with Fellini shortly before he died. Also interviewed are some of the people/actors he worked with. It's a bit slow, Fellini seems old, sad and tired in the interiew at times. And they used excessive clips from 8 1/2 - made me think I should have just watched it again. Overall it's definitely worth seeing... -
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Sono un Gran Bugiardo (or something like that)
Thu, December 4, 2003 - 7:02 PMI saw it. I really liked it, but I thought the choice of interviewees (aside from Fellini himself) was kind of odd. It was great to hear Donald Sutherland talk about "Casanova" and Terence Stamp talk about "Due Passi whatever-it's-called" but where were people like Anouk Aimée and Sandra Milo (who might be dead for all I know) and Anthony Quinn (who I think was alive at the time)? It seemed the doc only concentrated on a few films (like "8 1/2") and gave the impression that they were his only representative works. It never showed a single clip from "La Dolce Vita" (maybe they couldn't get the rights?).
Like you said, it's definitely worth seeing and the clip of him directing the poor extra in "Casanova," telling her to spread her legs, etc. was priceless angry-demanding-director footage. But I felt like it was sort of incomplete at the end. -
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documentaries
Thu, December 4, 2003 - 8:15 PMYeah I totally agree. A strange mix. And it felt very incomplete - yet it was an hour 45 minutes. Not short.
Fellini telling Sutherland to keep the tit in his mouth was also one of those moments. It's so funny how sour Sutherland was in the interview, you'd think he could laugh it off after 30 years, but then they cut to Fellini telling him to suck the tit wearing that funny costume with the forehead shaved and you think: maybe I would be sour after 30 years too.
One of the best "director in action" moments was during a scene for Satyricon (I think) with the 2 men and the woman on the bed. It was interesting how close he was, how precise, like they were puppets and then they cut to the clip of the finished film and while it was obviously careful, you would never know he was inches away ordering them around. I guess part of this has to do with the fact that wasn't using direct sound and could yell and talk to them while the scene is in progress.
The clips is probably all about rights and legal. I would like an Anouk Aimee interview about her career in general, as she is one of my favorites. Regarding Sandra Milo, you have to see the bonus disc of 8 1/2 as there is a lengthy interview with her (probably from 1999-2000). She's funny, has aged fairly well and discusses how -she- was Fellini's soul mate. Good stuff, the kind of stuff that should have been in the documentary. And not the only gem on that bonus disc - it's a must own DVD.
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