JULIET OF THE SPIRITS

RETURNING SUN & MON, DECEMBER 16 & 17, 2001
AS PART OF GREATEST HITS FILM SERIES

HALLUCINATORY, RAVISHING...extraordinary pictorial beauty! -- The New
Yorker

starring Giulietta Masina

RESTORED 35mm PRINT!!

NEW TRANSLATION & SUBTITLES!

Scene from Giulietta degli Spiriti (Giulietta degli Spiriti, 1965) As a back-shot and silhouetted Giuletta Masina, after flipping through wigs and checking the decor for her candlelit anniversary dinner, finally emerges into well-lit closeup (a star entrance as part of Fellini's gift to wife Masina, then at a rocky passage in their marriage and her career), abashed hubby Mario Pisu brings in the raffish - what else? - guests he's invited: medium Friedrich Ledebur leads a shadowy, table-rapping séance; indeterminately sexed "Indian" seer (German dance legend Valeska Gert in her first film since 1931's Threepenny Opera) dispenses sibylline advice; a smiling, clerically-disguised detective gives Masina the bad news about her husband via the latest in high tech; and voluptuous neighbor Sandra Milo shoots the chute into her bordello-inspired mansion's pool in her birthday suit. A phantasmagoria of dreams, spirits, and memories (including Masina's childhood star turn as an incinerated martyr), Juliet is in a sense Fellini's distaff 8 1/2, and was viewed even at the time as a metaphor for his own marriage (although he called it "the least biographical of my films - my wife just happens to be in it"), with the production featuring on-set battles because Fellini wanted Masina "to play herself" (the final homage to Cabiria's famous smile called for multiple takes) and a decisive split with longtime co-scripter Ennio Flaiano over the price of an airline ticket. Dazzlingly shot by the great Gianni di Venanzo in hues ranging from delicate pastels to garish primaries, this was Fellini's first color work, and he used it to full effect to make what he called "a fantasy that is developed through colored illuminations." Seen for decades only in faded and battered prints, this new 35mm restoration returned to the original camera negative to bring back the most dazzling of the Maestro's dreams. "Could lay claim to being Fellini's best." - Georges Sadoul.
Showtimes: 1:30, 6:30

A Rialto Pictures Release. Special thanks to Janus Films.

Showing With:

NIGHTS OF CABIRIA

(1956, Federico Fellini) Giulietta Masina - in her Cannes award-winning performance - as the dreamy Roman streetwalker in the Fellini masterpiece (complete with 7-minute sequence restored in 1998), winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
Showtimes: 4:10, 9:10

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Scene from Giulietta degli Spiriti
Links:

Rialto Picture's JULIET OF THE SPIRITS Page
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA Fan Site
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA Movie poster is available from POSTERITATI
The Internet Movie Database Federico Fellini Page
More information about Fellini
Fellini links page - links to every Fellini page on the Internet!!
Federico Fellini website
Spotlight on Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini Multimedia Server website
A Federico Fellini interview on Brightlightsfilm.com
MoviesUnlimited.com Federico Fellini Film database
The films of Federico Fellini on Cinemaitalia.com

Limited edition poster
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Selections from Amazon.com:

I, Fellini
by Charlotte Chandler (Editor), Billy Wilder

The Cinema of
Federico Fellini
by Peter E. Bondanella,
Federico Fellini

Conversations
With Fellini
by Costanzo Constantini

Fellini's Films:
From Postwar
to Postmodern
by Franke Burke

Fellini on Fellini
by Federico Fellini,
Isabel Quigley (Translator)

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I, Fellini by Charlotte Chandler (Editor), Billy Wilder	The Cinema of Federico Fellini by Peter E. Bondanella, Federico Fellini
Conversations With Fellini by Costanzo Constantini	Fellini's Films: From Postwar to Postmodern by Franke Burke	Fellini on Fellini by Federico Fellini, Isabel Quigley (Translator)