Gideon Bachmann and Fellini’s Friends and Family
Essential Fellini
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59m
Critic Gideon Bachmann was a friend and intellectual sparring partner of Federico Fellini’s for over thirty years. As a radio broadcaster and then a filmmaker, he interviewed Fellini and many of those who knew him at length. What resulted is an oral biography of the great director.
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Reporter's Diary: “Zoom on Fellini”
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Intervista
Directed by Federico Fellini • 1987 • Italy
Starring Sergio Rubini, Antonella Ponziani, Maurizio MeinSomething of a late-career companion to 8½, Federico Fellini’s penultimate film is a similarly self-reflexive (and self-deprecating) journey through both the director’s dream life and his cinema...
