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Federico Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’ to get a remake

“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should love each other outside of time… detached.” That’s a line from Federico Fellini’s art house classic La Dolce Vita, a movie that’s pure ’60s but is so freeing and whimsical in so many regards that it too exists …

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Inside Out 2012: ‘Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean’; or if Fellini made a Dolce & Gabbana commercial instead of La Dolce Vita

Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean Written and directed by Matthew Mishory USA, 2012 Let’s posit a hypothetical – what if the iconic James Dean was gay? Well, let’s answer one hypothetical question with another – what if Fellini made a Dolce & Gabbana commercial instead of La Dolce Vita? What does one …

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Catching Up with a Classic: ‘La Dolce Vita’

Had I seen La Dolce Vita at an earlier age I would not have appreciated it the same way I do now. I’m sure I would have gotten caught up in the wild ride main character Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) takes. The spiralling mix of booze, women, and empty pleasure, the endless nights of loud music boxing one’s ears, and the mumbling alcohol dreams of a blonde that couldn’t possibly exist. This all would have been delightful to the younger, more irresponsible me. It meant nothing to feel nothing, and any hauntings of a void could be squashed with a smirk and a wry word of expression.

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