Intervista
Directed by Federico Fellini • 1987 • Italy
Starring Sergio Rubini, Antonella Ponziani, Maurizio Mein
Something of a late-career companion to 8½, Federico Fellini’s penultimate film is a similarly self-reflexive (and self-deprecating) journey through both the director’s dream life and his cinematic world—which are, here as always in Fellini’s work, inextricably entwined. In Rome to make a documentary about the great filmmaker, a Japanese camera crew follows Fellini on a tour through his longtime home studio of Cinecittà as the maestro’s memories and fantasies unfurl in a dizzying, dazzling, time-bending love letter to the art and spectacle of moviemaking. The film’s sprawling vision even makes room for an appearance by Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg who, in an unforgettable bit of movie magic, relive their iconic Trevi Fountain scene from LA DOLCE VITA, lent new poignancy by the tacit acknowledgement of time’s passing.
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Intervista
Directed by Federico Fellini • 1987 • Italy
Starring Sergio Rubini, Antonella Ponziani, Maurizio MeinSomething of a late-career companion to 8½, Federico Fellini’s penultimate film is a similarly self-reflexive (and self-deprecating) journey through both the director’s dream life and his cinema...
Extras
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At Home with Federico Fellini
In this 1987 interview for Italian television, director Federico Fellini discusses the importance of Franz Kafka’s novel “Amerika” to the making of INTERVISTA.
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Fellini Racconta: Passeggiate nella memoria
This 2000 documentary features extensive interviews with a late-in-life Federico Fellini looking back on his career.
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Marcello Mastroianni on Federico Fellini
In this audio interview with Marcello Mastroianni, conducted circa 1963 by film historian Gideon Bachmann, the actor talks about how he met Federico Fellini and how his relationship with the director deepened over the years.
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Fellini's TV Advertisements
Immediately preceding INTERVISTA, director Federico Fellini made GINGER AND FRED (1986). For that film, Fellini created a number of comically exaggerated television advertisements, but most ultimately went unused and unseen until they were presented in this 2003 collection for Italian television.
