Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
Essential Fellini
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51m
Federico Fellini made this hour-long "documentary" for producer Peter Goldfarb and NBC in 1969. A meditation on his films-including those he had abandoned and those he had not yet made-it follows the path laid out by 8½ and leading to such later self-reflexive films as FELLINI'S ROMA and ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL.
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Directed by Federico Fellini • 1953 • Italy
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