Intervista

#18 in my ranking of Federico Fellini's films. I ended up with the opposite reaction I've had over the last few movies with Intervista. I was deliriously in love with everything until the ending when I felt like it just petered out. Each of the disparate pieces was wonderful as I waited for Fellini to…

Ginger and Fred

#9 in my ranking of Federico Fellini's films. Federico Fellini's two most frequent actors, his wife Giulietta Masina and the star Marcello Mastroianni, come together for the first time in a Fellini picture, and the result is a rather wonderful little gem of a film late in Fellini's career. It's about getting old and reflecting…

And the Ship Sails On

#13 in my ranking of Federico Fellini's films. It seems odd for Fellini to have picked the Belle Epoque to be the subject of his satirical eye. Ending more than seventy years before And the Ship Sails On's production and ending six years before Fellini's birth, La Belle Epoque was a Franco-centric period marked by…

Wonder Woman 1984

#8 in my ranking of the DCEU franchise. This movie was awful. I really wasn't a big fan of the original Wonder Woman, but it was competent enough to sustain two hours. This feels like a workprint, the first cut of a movie made from all the footage shot and with any inclination to keep…

City of Women

#8 in my ranking of Federico Fellini's films. With about thirty minutes left in Fellini's City of Women, I was convinced that I was going to give this a much lower rating, that the collection of weird sights and sounds that Marcello Mastroianni weaved through, all involving women, was going to amount to little more…