Fellini: I'm a Born Liar R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 2, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Alchemy / Millennium
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | Donald Sutherland, Terence Stamp, Roberto Benigni & Italo Calvino | |
Directed by | Damian Pettigrew | |
Screenwriting by | Damian Pettigrew & Olivier Gal | |
Subject: | Federico Fellini | |
Director of Photography: | Paco Wiser |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Aficionados will be enthralled by the master's ramblings and ruminations, thrilled at behind-the-scenes glimpses of his working methods and delighted to sample snippets of his movies, once famous and obscure...
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
If you know little about Fellini, this is not the place to start. Begin with the films.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...In a world of larger-than-life cinema tyrants, he was the un-control freak...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
Pettigrew's movie functions nicely as a posthumous couch trip, with Fellini explaining the soulful puppetry of his art without pulling the curtain up far enough to let you catch him pulling the strings.
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Boston Globe
Rating: B+ --
Fellini came close to painting his thoughts directly onto the screen. Born Liar honors this approach by putting lyricism ahead of clarity. You get the feeling that the maestro would appreciate the results.
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Dallas Morning News
Rating: 3/4 --
A strange beast, but one lifelong Fellini fans will find irresistible.
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Boston Herald
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A disappointment, not to mention a squandered opportunity.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description:
Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini created one of cinema's most distinct, influential, and lasting bodies of work over the course of his legendary career. Fellini's films explored the director's innermost fears, dreams, and desires with uncompromising originality, and forever changed cinema in the process. In this documentary from Damian Pettigrew, audiences get to hear from the director himself, who was interviewed just months before his passing in October 1993. Fellini isn't a theorist, and that's what makes his discourses so entertaining. He proves that his films were true expressions of the subconscious, without the over-intellectualizing that plagued the work of so many of his peers. In addition to clips from 8 1/2 and LA DOLCE VITA, Pettigrew presents behind-the-scenes footage of Fellini directing SATYRICON and AMARCORD. This footage provides greater insight into the director's almost comically two-dimensional view of actors, who he treated more like puppets than actual human beings. Corroborating this are several actors who worked with Fellini on different projects, including Donald Sutherland, Terence Stamp, and Roberto Benigni. A must-see for film aficionados, I'M A BORN LIAR only adds to the director's already boundless mystique and charm.
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