Every now and then one watches a film that takes a couple days to absorb. I am not just talking about dissecting and understanding—often the better the movie, the more that is revealed by further ...

ORIGINALLY MADE FOR Italian television and shown in black and white, “The Clowns” was later released in color theatrically. Reminiscent of “Amarcord,” the film begins with one of Fellini’s childhood ...

In the wonderful opening passage of “The Clowns,” which came out yesterday on DVD, Fellini recalls the clown acts of his youth and how they reflected village life. He gets at the connections between ...

His observation that their grotesquery was in those days common in Italian small towns allows an aside into sketches of such characters: a horse-drawn carriage driver, huge like a Chaplin villain, who ...

Given the “Carnival Of Life” theme that always pervaded Federico Fellini’s work—his life as an artist almost literally takes the form of a three-ring circus in his autobiographical masterpiece 8 ...

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from ...

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from ...

At the heart of Fellini's I am a Clown is the strange and wonderful story of Peter Goldfarb, the very young American producer who in 1967 convinced Federico Fellini, the greatest Italian director, to ...

The premiere of "Old Clown Wanted" by the New Jersey Repertory Co. marks the long-awaited U.S. debut of prolific Romanian-born playwright Matei Visniec. Inspired by Federico Fellini's 1970 pic "The ...