Tagged: federico fellini

home video hovel / reviews / scott nye / video review

January 24, 2025

Home Video Hovel: 8½, by Scott Nye

In Cocteau’s The Blood of a Poet, the protagonist – an artist – steps through a mirror, takes a surreal trip through a hotel where he witnesses unreal sights, and shoots himself but does not die. Fellini, in a sense,...

movie journal / scott nye

December 22, 2020

Scott’s Movie Journal #4

On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola, 2020) (second view; last seen two months ago) Like…every(?) film she’s made, Coppola’s latest is deeper, richer, more nuanced and textured than most of its contemporaries, and the critical consensus is wildly undervaluing its virtues....

movie journal / scott nye

December 14, 2020

Scott’s Movie Journal #3

In Name Only (John Cromwell, 1939) (first view) If anyone told me there was a 30s movie with Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, and Kay Francis, my first guess wouldn’t necessarily be a life-and-death melodrama, but here we are. Everyone is...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

July 15, 2020

Criterion Prediction #250: Fellini’s Casanova, by Alexander Miller

Title: Fellini’s Casanova Year: 1976 Director: Federico Fellini Cast: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Carmen Scarppita, Clara Algranti Synopsis: Casanova is a fantastical interpretation of Giacomo Casanova’s (Sutherland) life. Much of his trysts and philandering are recounted through his reminiscences while...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

September 5, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #30: 8 1/2, by Sarah Brinks

I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. I always appreciate movies that...