#FEDERICO FELLINI MOVIES LIST HOW TO#
He claims he doesn’t know what he wants or how to achieve it, and the film proves he knows exactly, and rejoices in his knowledge.” And he knew he was damn good. “It does what is almost impossible: Fellini is a magician who discusses, reveals, explains and deconstructs his tricks, while still fooling us with them. “I have seen 8 1/2 over and over again, and my appreciation only deepens,” wrote Roger Ebert in a piece on the film. And upon reflection, putting 8 1/2 in last place looks overmodest. Then again, the director of La Dolce Vita, Satyricon, and Juliet of the Spirits could have found his distinctively grotesque and celebratory worldview realized nowhere but in his own work. Maybe the fact that he puts it at number ten scores him a humility point?
#FEDERICO FELLINI MOVIES LIST MOVIE#
He includes not one but three films, all by Charlie Chaplin, in the top spot, ranks the complete comedic works of both the Marx Brothers (whose 1928 The Circus you can watch above) and Laurel and Hardy in third place, and, in the most audacious act of all, adds a movie of his own to the list. Never a slave to restraint, Fellini bends the tacit rules of list-making in a few different ways here. Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman).2001: A Space Odyssey(1968, Stanley Kubrick).The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie(1972, Luis Bunuel).The Circus/ City Lights/Monsieur Verdoux (1928,31,47, Charles Chaplin).And then there’s one of the most interesting lists - that of Federico Fellini, which originally appeared in Sight and Sound. It runs as follows: Same with Andrei Tarkovsky, Susan Sontag and Akira Kurosawa.
Quentin Tarantino has done it. So have Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen. Yes they make their own lists of favorite films. But we can take some small measure of consolation from the fact that certain auteurs have occasionally done it too. Film fans have few stronger vices, I would submit, than the making of lists.
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