Federico Fellini News

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.

Staggering across the square a ' beloved for its cobblestone streets, magnificent church and 17th century fountain a ' are a Hollywood star and several other well-known actors in period costume.

The Venice Film Festival announced Tuesday that it would name its sidebar competition for budding young film essayists in honor of Tullio Kezich, the venerable Rome-based critic who died on Monday at the age of 80.

Tullio Kezich, a prominent film critic for the daily Corriere della Sera who befriended and collaborated with Italian directing greats Federico Fellini and Ermanno Olmi, died Monday.

When comparing " G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra " to that awful fellow Hasbro monstrosity " Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ," "Joe" plays out like a goddamn Federico Fellini film.

When comparing " G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra " to that awful fellow Hasbro monstrosity " Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ," "Joe" plays out like a goddamn Federico Fellini film.

When comparing " G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra " to that awful fellow Hasbro monstrosity " Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ," "Joe" plays out like a goddamn Federico Fellini film.

Penelope Cruz has revealed that the audition for Nine was the hardest one she's ever done.

Federico Fellini must be turning in his grave. Rome's Cafe de Paris, symbol of his "La Dolce Vita," captured in his classic pic as the sweet and swanky Via Veneto hangout for stars, glitterati and paparazzi, was raided last week by Italian police, who have traced its ownership to one of Italy's most evil mob syndicates.

A bar in Rome that was featured by Federico Fellini in his 1960 film La Dolce Vita is under investigation for alleged links to the Calabrian Mafia.