Fellini made films about Fellini, Russell made films about anything and everything.
To be fair, I like a lot of Fellini. I sort of binge-watched La strada (1954), Le notti di Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963) a few years ago and it was great. One of my professors showed us his Satyricon (1969) in college and that was inexplicable but incredibly fun.
He's one of the towering figures of world cinema.
Having now seen The Devils rather than imagined it by reputation, I cannot figure out why it was given a midnight showing. I'm sure its history of censorship and controversy qualifies it as a cult movie, but it's that triple threat of legendary, hard to find, and actually very good: they'd have had a full house both nights if they'd shown it at an hour when non-nocturnal film buffs could get near it. It was fun to see as we did! But I wouldn't have minded having an evening afterward to talk it over. As it was—at three in the morning—we mostly went home.
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To be fair, I like a lot of Fellini. I sort of binge-watched La strada (1954), Le notti di Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963) a few years ago and it was great. One of my professors showed us his Satyricon (1969) in college and that was inexplicable but incredibly fun.
He's one of the towering figures of world cinema.
Having now seen The Devils rather than imagined it by reputation, I cannot figure out why it was given a midnight showing. I'm sure its history of censorship and controversy qualifies it as a cult movie, but it's that triple threat of legendary, hard to find, and actually very good: they'd have had a full house both nights if they'd shown it at an hour when non-nocturnal film buffs could get near it. It was fun to see as we did! But I wouldn't have minded having an evening afterward to talk it over. As it was—at three in the morning—we mostly went home.