City of Women
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Movie Reviews of City of Women
Movie Review: Fellini's most underrated film....and completely insane (creatively, anyway)
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this film. I think it's as good as the great Fellini films (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita). There are moments of incredible magic throughout, and it's vividly cinematic. Some of Fellini's greatest sequences (like the one when Snaporaz goes down the slide into an "amusement" park) are pure Fellini magic. The cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno is magnificent. It is one of Fellini's most inventive and surreal pictures (which, for him, is really saying something). The 138 minute running time just flies by. Many critics said that Fellini never made a good film after Amarcord, but they are so wrong. Almost every latter day Fellini film (even The Voices of the Moon, which never got a proper release in this country) has some elements in it that could only be brought out by the great Maestro. This film (along with And the Ship Sails On and Intrevista) are amongst Fellini's forgotten films, which is a shame, since they are well worth watching. See this one. It's amazing filmmaking...
Movie Review: Surreal Fellini Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
City of Women is a wonderful surreal film. The film itself plays very much like a dream. Each scene falls into the next with no logical purpose, but, like a dream, it does seem to make sense. There is a confusion about the role of feminism and the militant women in them, but it really isn't enough to stop the enjoyment. The visuals are fabulous, as you would expect in a Fellini film, and the music soundtrack seems to be rifs on the opening theme of the song "Mona Lisa." The DVD is impressive as well. The quality of this late 70s film is as good as can be expected, but to see it in widescreen is amazing. The documentaries that accompany the movie are fascinating, if very humorous. In the 20 minute documentary, two film historians and one director (Paul Mazursky) cannot agree on the most important moment in the film, and it is different from the Fellini interview printed in the inner flier. It is a great package all together
Movie Review: Great movie, good transfer
Summary: 5 Stars
City of Women is probably the most complete culmination of Fellini's dreamlike film-language aspirations. The DVD is slightly disappointing because the color saturation is slightly low. Also, I had problems with the dvd because I view on a computer screen. I believe this transfer was made from a tape master: scanline artifacting can be seen here and there and it's a bit distracting. But the image is pretty sharp, and what images...! Also, it's nice to be able to turn off the subtitles for once and watch just those potent, dreamlike, dancelike, painterly images play out before your eyes. They could have done a better job with the transfer, but if you love Fellini this is a must have DVD!Movie Review: Baroque, incisive and devastating satire about beliefs and disbeliefs!
Summary: 5 Stars
"City of women" is another fantastic journey, a surrealist portrait of what the bizarre mind of Fellini is capable to make.
The initial sequence of the train entering into the tunnel is much more than a simple metaphor or explicated allusion, a genial lobby before this messy universe crowded of women makes its appearance, a demolishing and controversial film that simply is beyond any label you try to search.
Watch the genial sequence in the room surrounded by monitors of women of all kind. It's possible the jewel of the crown.
Another hallucinating fantasy of the great Fellini the freest of all the directors ever born.
Movie Review: A DVD delight for Fellini fans
Summary: 5 Stars
Fellini fans out there: Don't be put off by negative reviews about this DVD... it's one of the best Fellini movies, and theDVD anamorphic (16x9) video transfer is just fine! I've had to watch this movie on VHS tape before (and on the PAL standard to boot, which is as good as it gets for VHS tape!) and I can tell you that saying the new DVD transfer is no better -or even worse- than the VHS tape is just poppycock. Viewed with a 16x9 TV, the transfer, while not reference quality, is certainly good enough. I saw none of the artifacts that were mentioned in the other reviews.
So, Fellini fans, get the DVD and enjoy the adventures of Snaporaz!