Ich, Fellini

Forged from the many conversations Charlotte Chandler conducted with director Federico Fellini over the course of fourteen years, and featuring a forward by Billy Wilder, I, Fellini is a portrait of one of Italy's greatest filmmakers in his own words. In the book, Fellini recounts the stories behind his classic films La Dolce Vita , 8 1/2 , La Strada , and others, describing the inspirations from which they arose and the struggles to get them filmed. He also speaks at length on actors Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, and Anna Magnani, and on directors Roberto Rossellini, Ingmar Bergman, and Michelangelo Antonioni. Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication Page 6 Table of Contents 14 Foreword 8 Acknowledgments 12 Illustrations 16 Introduction 20 Part I: Federico 24 1: Dreams are the Only Reality 26 2: Expected at the Circus 28 3: Garbo's Eyelashes 39 4: Home of the Heart 50 5: Her Best Director, but Not Her Best Husband 62 6: Funny Faces to Neorealism 77 7: The Goose and the Director 93 Part II: Federico Fellini 104 8: Making Films is Making Love 106 9: From the Street Comers of Rimini to the Via Veneto 123 10: Jung as an Older Brother 156 11: My Guardian Angel Could Only Be a Woman 177 12: Comic Strips, Clowns, and Classics 193 13: The Fragility of Life 202 Part III: Fellini 210 14: A Legend and the Small Screen 212 15: Daymares and Nightdreams 227 16: Building a Set is the Best Way to Travel 241 17: An Oscar with a Pimple on Your Nose 260 18: Interviewers Who Join the Foreign Legion 282 19: Making Films is More Exciting than Seeing Them 290 20: "That Must Be Her Husband, Fellini" 302 21: Magic and Pasta 308 22: Death is So Very Alive 321 23: The Veiled Lady of the Fulgor 332 Afterword 346 Filmography and Awards 410 Index 432 "This book - the product of interviews conducted over a fourteen-year period between Italian filmmaker Federico fellini (1920-1993) and Charlotte Chandler offers a revelatory and intimate look at the four-time Academy Award-winning director of such classics as 81/2, La strada, La dolce vita, Satyrico, Amarcord, and Juliet of the spirits. Here is Fellini in all his lusty candor and simple humanity on the subjects he knew and loved best: film, women, circuses, dreams, death, and spaghetti."--Page 4 of cover At times philosophical, occasionally engagingly self-deprecating, I, Fellini helps explain how the word "Felliniesque" was added to the language. There is generous commentary on actors Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, and Anna Magnani, and on directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Ingmar Bergman, and Michelangelo Antonioni. Most often, Fellini speaks of the enchanting Giulietta Masina, the leading lady of many of his films and of his life. Forged from the many conversations Charlotte Chandler conducted with the director of La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and La Strada over the course of fourteen years, I, Fellini is a portrait of one of Italy's greatest filmmakers in his own words.