Fellini - Satyricon
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Movie Reviews of Fellini - Satyricon
Movie Review: Weird, Wild Film
Summary: 3 Stars
The DVD is a nice copy. Sharp contrast and good sound. I would have preferred Criterion to have produced the DVD, but it's not bad overall. There aren't any extras, just chapter headings.The film: it's a very strange, exotic, "alien" experience. All of Fellini's films are bizarre, but this one is really "out there"! I wouldn't say it's as good as "La Dolce Vita" or "8 1/2", but it's good. The film is attempting to show us the utter strangeness and disorientation we might feel if we were to go back to that time (Nero era Roman empire). The film can also be seen as a sort of "Roman art film", perhaps prototype sci-fi or "fantasy" through the eyes of someone living in the Classical world.
Movie Review: Gorgeous but empty
Summary: 3 Stars
Satyricon was written during the reign of Nero. A sarcastic, bawdy novel about decadence and extravagance in Rome, it semed like an ideal vehicle for Fellini. Unfortunately, Fellini made a visually amazing film that left out the humor of the novel. We are left with a cool and detached look at pagan Rome that never quite takes off. Scenes go on too long with little purpose. Theatricality takes precedence over spontaniety and vitality. The film doesn't seem to have a center - none of the characters really matter. What we have is a series of picture postcards - a sort of diorama - of ancient Rome. Even for someone who loves ancient history, such as myself, this was difficult to sit through. Final score: visuals: 100, narrative: 60.Movie Review: Could have been a better transfer
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie does not need my praises. It's simply a must for its depiction of an exhuberantly ironic if amoral way of living as well as some of the most arresting images ever put on film. It should have received 5 stars. I rated it 3 because it does not appear that the transfer to DVD was from a pristine negative.... there is more detail than the VHS,of course, and it's in Italian, not English-dubbed, but if they are going to reissue a film like this, they could have gone the full mile. I hope that when they get to 8 1/2 they do..... in fact, I hope Criterion and not MGM puts it out.Movie Review: Bygones
Summary: 3 Stars
There is a gentleman here hoping for a better print of Satyricon. Sadly, the best print was when The Criterion Collection released it on laserdisc. I have not seen it anywhere for sale and I lost the VHS copy I made from the CAV many years ago. I sold all my laserdiscs 15 years ago. Had I known what one-of-a-kind things they were I would have saved them.Movie Review: You'd never guess...
Summary: 3 Stars
Beautiful to look at, but idiotic. The book this movie's based on is hilarious. Fellini totally misses the point, it seems. Read the Arrowsmith translation of Petronius and watch something else.