This book is an invaluable mirror with which to follow the personal and professional development of a genuine master of film, and an essential but discreet travel companion, an ironic compass to be consulted with Fellinian trust and indulgence.
Forever a circus ringleader at heart, Fellini is remembered as one of cinema's greatest storytellers. Each film of his is analyzed and examined in this collection that includes movie posters.
This major artistic biography of Federico Fellini shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature, and his encounter with the ideas of C. G. Jung, especially Jungian dream interpretation. Covering Fellini's entire career, the book links his mature accomplishments to his first employment as a cartoonist, gagman, and sketch-artist during the Fascist era and his development as a leading neo-realist scriptwriter.
The films of Federico Fellini (1920–1993) dealt equally with truth-tellers and pretenders, realists and fabulists. His colorful, surreal vision of cinema is so distinctive that the term "Felliniesque" is common among film buffs, even those who have not seen any of his films. This collection of interviews spans the director’s entire career from 1957 to 1993.
“Trenchant in its critical analysis, absorbing and sympathetic in its account of his private life, Kezich’s Fellini is a revelation. It effaces virtually everything written to date about the Italian maestro . . . This engrossing biography mirrors its subject. It’s affectionate, garrulous and often rambling, and in sudden flashes of brilliance it offers a penetrating view of Fellini’s life and art.” —Peter Cowie, The Nation“Few writers are able to approach Fellini with the privilege of intimate experience and friendship . . .
This lusty, high-spirited book was forged from conversations, conducted over the course of fourteen years, between Federico Fellini--the great master director-- and author Charolette Chandler.