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...Federico Fellini happily plunked down in front of his television set one night recently. Italy's government-run TV network was showing I Vitelloni, a vintage Fellini film that examined a quintet of Roman loafers. Basta! Gone was a scene−"a decisive scene"−where the hero is refused a job with a comedy troupe because he is not a homosexual like all the others. "Cutting an indispensable part of a film like this offends me deeply," wrote Fellini to the television network, "and so from now on I'm never letting one of my films...
Boccaccio '70 claims, ingenuously or disingenuously, to be the sort of thing the great Florentine would have written had he had to add an Eleventh Day to the Decameron in Italy in 1970. But Directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, each contributing a story to this motion picture triptych, give moviegoers not so much the unself-conscious bawdry of Boccaccio as the neopagan body worship that a witty Vatican editorialist recently styled "erotic vagrancy...
...Italy tomorrow, the first thing after I leave the plane, I call Federico Fellini, and he invites me to his house and we sit up maybe all night talking. You know, when he was making La Dolce Vita, he told me, 'Mario, I can't do this job without you here...
...Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) directed the billboard fantasy, making three-fourths of the Ekberg visible beneath the surface. Vittorio De Sica (Two Women) directed Sophia Loren in a tale about a girl who works in a traveling circus. At each town, a raffle is held and the winner gets Sophia. In one village, Sophia meets and falls in love with a local lad. To cleanse her name and clear her future, she gives the winner of that day's raffle all the money but no honey...
Moreno-Tórroba: Sonatina, Nocturne, Suite Castellana (John Williams, guitar; Westminster). A remarkable young (20) Australian guitarist in three nice pieces by Spanish Composer Federico Moreno. The tones are water clear, the style one of caressing delicacy, and the whole reminiscent of a precocious Segovia, who in fact taught Williams at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena...