Federico Fellini News

Daniel Day-Lewis, left, as Guido in "Nine;" Marcello Mastroianni as Guido in "8 1/2." Who is more debauched, who's existential crisis is more pressing? While watching Rob Marshall's Nine , his movie based on the 1982 Broadway musical itself based on the 1963 Federico Fellini semiautobiograpy 8 1/2, I thought of the other movies that owed a debt to ...

Let's play word association: Federico Fellini. Italian movies. Beautiful women, womanizing men.

With La dolce vita in 1960, Federico Fellini created a new kind of personal fantastical movie to deal with the corrupt, newly affluent Italy.

WHEN the infamous Italian director, Federico Fellini, claimed that people live in fantasy worlds, he clearly had some idea what it would be like to meet the cast of Nine.

Federico Fellini's 1963 pap classic has spawned more films than numbers in its title - including Rob Marshall's new musical, Nine.

Daniel Day-Lewis has said that he was nervous about singing for his role in Nine .

Federico Fellini was the undisputed king of Italian cinema during the post-war era of the 1950s and '60s when foreign filmmakers began to reach worldwide audiences.

Title-wise, the musical ``Nine'' registers half a digit higher than ``8 1/2,'' the Federico Fellini masterpiece that inspired the stage show that was the source for this new movie version.

Federico Fellini, an Italian film director said, "Life is a combination of magic and pasta." Those who don't appreciate it every day often overlook food.

We will, no doubt, get our share of Federico Fellini between now and Christmas -- with the prestigious release of "Nine," the all-star musical version of Fellini's classic "8 1/2." Short of renting the original "8 1/2" at your local video store , the best way to brush up on your Fellini is to check out the re-release of the master's kaleidoscopic ...

Italian cinema has never lacked for style, especially with directors like Federico Fellini and the mastery of costume design savants like Piero Gherardi.

As a huge fan of Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini , it's great to see such a vibrant trailer for Rob Marshall's Nine , a musical based on the original musical of the same name , which was derived from an Italian play by Mario Fratti which itself was inspired by Federico Fellini's autobiographical film 8½ . Much like Marshall's Chicago , ...

By the end of World War 2, much of Europe lay in ruins. The pre-war creative spirit that had flowered into German Expressionism and France's Poetic Realism was dead.

Rome, October 28 - American director Sidney Lumet will be the recipient of this year's Fellini Prize, a lifetime achievement award given by Italy's prestigious Federico Fellini Foundation.

Federico Fellini would have loved it. A flock of nuns and a friar demurely did red carpet duty at the Rome Film Festival.

This season's Broadway musical transplant is "Nine," derived from the Tony Award-winner of 1982 and directed by Rob Marshall, who has a short but impressive track record for such endeavors.

At 10:30 p.m., after a drive upstate to look at colleges, I returned a borrowed car to Greenwich Village, threaded my way through reeling and raucous revelers, and boarded the subway for home.

Iconic by the name alone, Giacomo Casanova lived in a fantasy world. And in a perfect marriage of subject and visionary, Casanova's story received sound treatment via the legendary director Federico Fellini.

Marc Stevens , the adult film star, memoirist, and erotic dance performer, was one of the pioneers of the adult film industry in the 1970s, the so-called "Golden Age of Porn." His 1975 biography, which some claim was ghost-written by his mother, was called 10 1/2 in an homage not only to Federico Fellini but to his male member.

This morning's Peter Filichia: [ TM ] The Flurry with the Fringe The good, the bad, and the bizarre at the just-completed New York International Fringe Festival.