♠ Federico Fellini


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my favorite movies of my 2nd favorite director and best italian director, also allot of times in my list of 10 most realistic movies.

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Amarcord (1974,  R)
Amarcord
Amazing, magnificant, Fellini's best movie ever! a true masterpiece. In my top 20 of my list of 50 best movies ever made!!

Directing: Its a diffrent style of directing he uses like in his other movie and it really doesnt dissapoint me. Filming one year in one town, based one Fellini's hometown Rimini, which looks almost like paradise. the atmosphere in this movie is top! with the superb storytelling like always, the comedy, everything... . Every scene in this magnificant movie is perfect.

Acting: I didnt really look at the acting because i was reading the very small subtitles and looking at the wonderfull locations, but from what ive seen from it, it looked pretty good.

Top 5 directors:
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Federico Fellini
4. David Lean
5. Francis Ford Coppola.

Top 5 Fellini movies:
1. Amarcord
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Il Bidone
4. Le Notti di Cabiria
5. La Strada
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La Dolce Vita (1960,  Unrated)
La Dolce Vita
The best Federico Felllini movie i have seen, its almost perfect in every way.

Directing: This movie is on number 8 of my list of 10 Best Directed movies. And everything about the directing is perfect to, the camera angles, the locations, the style expecially, Fellini is also n°2 on my list of 5 best directing styles, right after Hitchcock.

Acting: Excellent performance by Marcello Mastroianni, it was more then just acting, it feeled like he was a method actor like Al Pacino and Marlon Brando. He is probaly perfect casted for that role in that movie.

Cinematography: The best ever !!!! i never seen better camera work than in this movie, of all positions and angles you can put a camera in a scene this movie got it all perfect. Expecially the car scenes. the black and white comes thru perfectly to, you'll never see better cinematograhpy then in this movie.
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8 1/2 (1963,  Unrated)
8 1/2
Without a doubt one of the most intresting films ever made! Watching this movie once is not enough, its so intresting, so much style init that you automaticly want to see it again and everytime you watch you'll learn something new about it.

Federico Fellini, one of my favorite directors, the director of the most reallistic movies and the ones with the biggest imagination. 8 1/2 was the movie for him that made him change styles, from his neorealism classics like La strada, Il Bidone and Le notti di Cabiria to his more 'magical' movies like the nostalgic Amarcord and the dreamword of City of Woman. Fellini never really dissapointed me with his movie, even his lesser movie was still great (E la nave va).

That the screenplay is one of the best ones ever written is not really a secret our a suprise, like i said before everytime you watch it you'll learn something new our understand something better. You need allot of talent to write a movie like that, with such complex characters and allot of legendary scenes like the 'harem scene'.

Marcello Mastorianni as Guido, the director in the movie was an excellent choice and the most perfect one. It takes allot of acting skill to perform such a complex character like Guido.
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Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) (1957,  Unrated)
Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)
Directing: Nobody can direct this story better then Fellini himself, the story about a woman with almost no luck in life at all, but still you can cheer here up with a mambo, she keeps fighting for a better life which leads to the cruel and fascinating ending. Another Fellini masterpiece if you ask me just like La dolce vita and 8 1/2
Acting: Pretty good acting of Masina but i have seen better, she does manage to get the right looks on here face for the right times and moments, as it is a difficult character to play with what she all is going thru.
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Il Bidone (The Swindle) (The Swindlers) (1955,  Unrated)
Il Bidone (The Swindle) (The Swindlers)
Federico Fellini did it again, with this superb masterpiece of one of my favorite subjects. Also his second movie of his trilogy of redemption, after La strada
and before Nights of Cabiria.

Directing: A marvelous masterpiece
of Fellini, who made another classic with his great directing style. There's not really
much to say about it because it was all nearly perfect.

Acting: Broderick Crawford had probaly the best performance in this movie as the aging con-man Augusto. But i did expected more of actress Giuletta Masina. The rest of the acting cast where all very good to.
6
Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik) (1952,  Unrated)
Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik)
Fellini's first solo directed movie looks like the work of an experienced director, with an utterly dumb woman in the leading role, searching for her dream lover 'the white sheik' while on her honnymoon in Rome, her search turns out totally diffrently as she expected. The story sounds like something that has been done 1000 times before but the reallistic directing of Fellini makes it one of a kind. What i also love allot is that there's a small part by Giulietta Masina as Cabiria, refering to Notti di Cabiria, a movie that he still had to direct.
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La Strada (The Road) (1954,  PG)
La Strada (The Road)
my 4th and second favorite Fellini movie that ive seen.

Directing: F.Fellini uses one of my favorite directing styles, he shows us life how it is, not how it should be and he is the best director to show us that.

Acting: The best performance in this movie is the one of Anthony Quinn as Zampano the travelling depressing artist. Masina is also pretty good, but i liked here acting more in Nights of Cabiria
8
City of Women (1981,  R)
City of Women
A true masterpiece from 'il maestro' Federico Fellini
Directing: Escape to the fantasy world of Fellini. Magnificant directing, there are not really allot of movies like this, our with this subject. The movie is mainly about feminist but i wouldnt really call it a chick-movie. Its just a fantasy world of how Fellini thinks about Feminist and which is rather confusing :p. In this movie he uses a style that i would compare to his other masterpiece 8 1/2. So if you liked 8 1/2 then im sure your going to love this.
Acting: Mastroianni must be my favorite italian actor now, another great performance in this weird and exciting movie.
9
Intervista (1984,  Unrated)
Intervista
Great movie/docu of the great director Federico Fellini, i love the style which looks a bit like Roma, but better, much better, this nostalgic documentary style movie is wonderfull. With a great performance by Mastroianni, great movie.
10
Ginger e Fred (Ginger and Fred) (1986,  PG-13)
Ginger e Fred (Ginger and Fred)
With Fellini as director and Mastroianni and Masina in the leading role this movie couldnt fail and it didnt. The change of moods during the movie where great and perfect, it gave you the feeling that the actors where feeling. The story is also very intresting.
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I Vitelloni (1953,  Unrated)
I Vitelloni
Another great Fellini movie, one of his early work and not bad at all. As usual Fellini tells us a story like no one else could mixed with very great cinematography and superb acting. I do like most of Fellini his other work more but this is definitly worth watching if you like a good reallistic italian story.
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E la nave Va (And the Ship Sails On) (1984,  PG)
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Roma (Fellini's Roma) (1972,  Unrated)
Roma (Fellini's Roma)
Not one of my favorite Fellini movies, actually this is more a documentary with all diffrent takes, scenes and chapters showing us Rome in the past and present (1972). There where not allot of scenes that i really enjoyed but there where some good ones to like the one with the heartwarming atmosphere when allot of Romans where dining outside and all singing and talking and shouting our the one with the hilarious variety show.

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