Fellini On Fellini

Informative and poetically write

This book is a bible of sorts for the person who wants to live a different kind of life, one in which the imagination forever leads. You may learn to love mendacity. You may even decide that you are really a clown. Hopefully, you will want to watch Fellini movies. I read it once a year as a touchstone. Fellini is to us as Shakespeare was to the late Renaissance. Reading this book may change your life; don't say you weren't warned!

Come on, it's Fellini in his own words. What more could you want? This book consist of his essays, interviews and even responses to some critics who slammed his movies. A must for Fellini fans.

It sure did!This is an awesome book. I had been looking for it for so long. Thank you for your service

Fellini is the best.

Whatever I thought of Fellini’s films—and I was weaned on them—you always have it in the back of your mind that the persona of the films was a composite of creative writers and a bit of Fellini. I now officially ask Frederico’s forgiveness, because it seems quite evident from this writing that Fellini’s gifts went far beyond the cinema. He might just as easily have become a famous writer. And even more, I am grateful that the humor and intellect in the films is indistinguishable from the words in this slim volume. Brava, Frederick! Always the master!

At first I didn't understand as to why I couldn't put this novel down. I won't lie there is a 40 page slightly confusing introduction by Fellini that jumps back and forth from different periods down memory lane. However it's exactly that which makes you realize these words are Fellini's and only his. We get his insight into basically every film he ever made just with the introduction; and then he gives us the dish on how they all came to be. I have read a few of these "on" books and this is the first that truly interested me. Fellini was a genius and saw the world in a way we could only try to understand through his films. Thankfully to those resposible for trascribing all of his writings and materials this book will also help.

I bought this as a gift for y wife, a big Fellini fan. She loved it!

This slim volume contains a collection of Fellini's writings over the years about cinema and life. Not all cineastes are brilliant writers but Fellini's skill with the pen is palpable from the first page. Here one can find astute and far-ranging reflections on his films along with vigorous and amusing answers to his critics. In one essay he tells us about the genesis of La Dolce Vita, in another he reflects (with incomparable erudition) on the history of clowns and circuses. And so on - there is a vast range of reference. Everything he touches is imbued with the same witty and kind-hearted modesty. I would say Fellini on Fellini is a classic to go on all film lovers' books shelves, along with those other indispensable memoirs by Bunuel, Kurosawa, and Bergman. Books such as these teach you more about the history and art of cinema than a library of worthy academic treatises.

Vermutlich weil er sie den Interviewbänden vorzog. Die Zeit sollte man besser in die Re-Lektüre der Filme selber investieren. Dort habe ich mehr gelernt, als in diesem Band.

Very insightful book into Fellini's life and inspirations. Would highly recommend to anyone.