Sunday, August 30, 2009

Video interview: Federico Fellini

This is a gem: A 1965 interview with the great screenwriter-director Federico Fellini. We think of Fellini as a director, but did you know he has over 50 film-writing credits including La strada (1954), La dolce vita (1960), (1963), Giulietta degli spiriti (1965), Fellini - Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972, and Amarcord (1973).

This 7-minute excerpt from the interview Fellini talks about how immersed he can become in the story world when directing one of his movies, and in keeping with his fascination with the subconscious, dreams, and fantasy, even talks about taking LSD:



And while we're at it, here is Part One of a documentary on Fellini:

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