Posts Tagged with "Fellini"

Roger Ebert on La Dolce Vita

Monday, April 12, 2010

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Roger Ebert on La Dolce Vita

I’m in one of my Fellini Fhases, watching Amarcord (which I have always liked) on Friday and Juliet of the Spirits (which I always haven’t) on Saturday. It just comes upon me, you know? And then I’m back in a world of big-breasted women in heavy eye makeup. Anyway, I was browsing around looking for [...]

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Judging a “book” by its cover

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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I’m taking a break from writing (blogging in particular) for the summer and maybe longer. But there is a controversy afoot, a tiny little tornado in a teacup that, like the ringing of Pavlov’s bell, has wrung an inevitable response from me. I’m just as God made me, folks, a simple satirist and ex-magazine person [...]

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Newsbreaks for Friday

Friday, February 16, 2007

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Podcast now available! Thanks to pressure from the NCAA, the University of Illinois will finally retire its mascot, Chief Illiwek. However, the NCAA plans to keep its mascot, the dollar bill. Lawyers for the estate of Federico Fellini are suing a New York-based pornographer who has used the name “La Dolce Vita” for two gay [...]

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I love postwar Italian cinema…

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

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…so it made sense that I adored Martin Scorsese’s A Trip to Italy, a multi-hour documentary celebrating the films of Rosselini, De Sica, Antonioni, Fellini, and the guy who did “Senso,” whose name I can’t remember. Fellini is the BEST. When I grow up, I want to be played by Marcello Mastroianni.

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La Dolce Vita…

Sunday, May 4, 2003

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I watched Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita last night, and as usual found it to be an incredibly rich experience. Every damn time I watch it, I come up with one or more insights into my own life–things to do, not to do, patterns recognized, temptations resisted or embraced and the consequences of each…This, along [...]

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