AMARCORD d: Federico Fellini

Amarcord (1973)
Direction: Federico Fellini
Screenplay: Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
Cast: Bruno Zanin, Magali Noël, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi, Gianfilippo Carcano, Josiane Tanzilli, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi , Giuseppe Ianigro, Ferruccio Brembilla
 

 

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Federico Fellini’s Amarcord has often been linked with Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny & Alexander as films made by old men looking back on their youth. While this is true, Amarcord has a loose narrative structure in which the lives of many characters are detailed in comic vignettes whereas Fanny & Alexander is a straight drama.
In fact, Amarcord shares a deeper affinity with another work that was obviously influenced by it: Woody Allen’s grossly underrated Radio Days. Which of [...]

by Dan Schneider | January 24, 2007   
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LENNY – Dustin Hoffman – d: Bob Fosse

by Andre Soares | October 16, 2004   
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A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE d: John Cassavetes

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Direction and screenplay: John Cassavetes
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Eddie Shaw
 

Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence

 
IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WIFE
Steven Spielberg is a respected film director. Many will even call him an auteur. When you watch a Spielberg film, you know it’s a Spielberg film — or at least one made by his myriad imitators. John Cassavetes is a respected film director. No one will deny the fact that Cassavetes is a film auteur. When you watch a Cassavetes film, you know it’s a Cassavetes film — or at least a Henry Jaglom imitation of a Cassavetes film.
Now, apart from self-important works [...]

by Andre Soares | October 15, 2004   
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