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Thread: Federico Fellini retrospective

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    La citta delle donne

    City of Women


    *WARNING*: the content of this review may offend some readers







    Fellini's masterpiece may be my favorite of his.
    It's his cinematic response to feminism, and (as a man) I can say he's right on the money. I was in the throes of cinema nirvana last night.

    Before I headed to the theatre I was chillaxin at the New Amsterdam cafe, talking to a couple from Germany.

    The woman just happened to be a Fellini fan- her favorite film of his is The Voice of the Moon (playing here sunday with Intervista). They had to leave for the airport later in the evening, and because the gestapo will take your herbs and THC delivery devices from you they gave me a beautiful purple pipe and half an ounce of devasting green. Labelled "critical mass", this was bud from Jupiter. My buddy Brent also has blitzkrieging buds known as critical mass as well, but this stuff was different- the THC seemed to be as concentrated as kif.

    If you ever decide to vacation in Vancouver search for herbal tea named "Thunderfuck" or "Juicy Fruit". "White Widow" or the common "HashPLant" will also put a dragon in your dreams, but the formers will blow you away.

    Amsterdam boasts the best herb on Mother Earth but I would challenge that. You will find herbs here that will blast you to the moon corky.

    So anyway long story short I arrived at City of Women with altered consciousness.

    Marcello is Snaporaz, some guy who enters the Twilight Zone of Titties, the Fellini Fuck Fantasy, the City of Women.

    He meets Dr. Zupercock.

    Zupercock has conquered some 10,000 women and his mansion is decorated with everything relating to him. His ego is bigger than his Zupercock, to say the least.

    We have Fellini skewering the notion that he is solely a misogynistic Italian filmmaker.

    Well, he doesn't skewer it actually. He actually confirms it.

    See the scene where a guy goes to a brothel later in the film and an eyeglasses-wearing buxom beauty takes him "upstairs".

    The woman is completely nude, her big round ass is photographed from "behind" and it fills the whole screen!
    Fellini holds on her hairy asscrack. He is avoiding nothing here- he's a filmmaker who is pulling no punches in his misogyny.

    He's saying I like big butts and I cannot lie.
    It's a monumentally erotic moment, and the ladies in the audience were audibly vocal... I'm 100% sure there was blushing, looking away and shocked little brains.

    Wow. Sexuality tackled with plain "here it is" simplicity.
    Fellini made his blue movie. It's soft porn, plain and simple.
    He may have lost some fans with this one but I don't care- it's genius thru and thru.

    I wish I could make a movie like this.

    There are great lengthy scenes with "young modern women" in 3 vehicles who pursue Snaporaz on dark roads that seems to be a direct homage to Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, the scenes where Alex is speeding thru the night with his droogs in the Durango '95.

    Also it seems that Rob Marshall has seen this movie.
    Bob Fosse may have written Chicago before Fellini's movie, but I suspect that the scenes of Roxie and Velma as a duo act were lifted from City of Women. Two nearly naked women dance just like Renee and Catherine did. (With Marcello tho).

    Hilarious and glorious from begin to fin.
    Last edited by Johann; 09-23-2005 at 02:01 PM.
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    Wow I didn't expect this to get your vote, I've seen universally bad reviews of City of Women. I honestly have stayed away from it, so I will probably check it out, but if it sucks I'm coming for you.

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    If you say it sucks it's because you don't understand Fellini.

    Come for me all you want.
    I got bandoliers and pins prepped to pull.
    "Set the controls for the heart of the Sun" - Pink Floyd

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