Film Theory
“What’s happening in this scene is — you can be with a woman, and things can be going really well, you think it’s definitely going to happen… but then a cat shows up. And you can forget it.
“And Fellini understood this.” ~ C. McLaren.
Meanwhile, over at Limerwrecks, you can read an ode to Vampira which has perhaps the best title I ever devised.
shadowplay 
April 2, 2012 at 1:57 pm
For me La Dolce Vita is less a movie than an event in my life. I saw it in 1961 when it opened in New York as a “roadshow” (ie hard ticket) item at the Henry Miller’s theater. When it got to the Bassano di Sutri sequence where Nico took Marcello to the castle of the aristocrats I more or less fell into the movie.
And I haven’t really ever left it.
The young prince with the floppy sweater and whispy mustache who shows Marcell around became a ‘role model.’
April 2, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Anita, Marcello and the Trevi Fountain are an essential image of cinema — as absolute as Marlyn and the subway grating in The Sen Year Itch
April 2, 2012 at 1:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKN1T3K1idg
April 2, 2012 at 2:38 pm
A few years ago, when my idol Camille Paglia was writing an ‘advice to the lovelorn’ column, she wrote a reply to one reader who had a particularly traumatic love life. She began it as follows…
DEAR —— YOUR LIFE IS A FELLINI MOVIE, LACKING ONLY ANITA EKBERG WITH A CAT ON HER HEAD.
I think that says it all.
April 2, 2012 at 6:22 pm
If your life were going to be a Fellini movie, La Dolce Vita is probably a better one to aim for than Nights of Cabiria, say. But I love to walk around with Nino Rota playing in my ears and fantasizing my way into that parallel — no, that DIVERGENT reality.
April 3, 2012 at 9:20 am
Personally, I’d go for JULIET OF THE SPIRITS as my own particular lifestyle guide. Much better costumes and decor…and iridescent colour to boot!
April 3, 2012 at 9:47 am
My only concern would the static electricity from all that bri-nylon.
April 3, 2012 at 6:38 pm
And David has another limerick up today, part of our series on Lang’s SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR. I like the title on this one, too.
http://limoday.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/boudoir-and-peace.html