Film: A Fellini Omnibus in Berkeley

Film - Short | March 4 | 3:10 p.m. |
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Sponsor:
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The three works in tonights program were originally released as parts of omnibus films. In The Marriage Agency, Fellinis contribution to the neorealist anthology Love in the City, a reporter comes into the agency pretending that he is looking for a wife for his friend who has delusions of being a werewolf. To his surprise, they have just the woman for him. The Temptations of Doctor Antonio, Fellinis episode of the three-part Boccaccio 70, mocks moral hypocrisy in the person of an aggressively prudish doctor who wages a one-man war against a giant billboard featuring Anita Ekberg voluptuously promoting milk. Toby Dammit, Fellinis part of Spirits of the Dead, is based on the Poe story Never Bet the Devil Your Head. Terence Stamp stars as an actor whose trip from a ghostly airport along a nocturnal highway is a masterpiece of modern macabre. The flavor is apocalyptic late sixties . . . an awake dream of double realities (Nathaniel Dorsky).
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Film