The Magic Of Fellini

Description: The Oscar RT nominated director of Raging Bull (1980) and Goodfellas (1990) is just one of the usual suspects (along with Woody Allen and Paul Mazursky) rounded up to pay homage to the great Italian director in The Magic of Fellini (2002), a 55-minute documentary written and directed by Carmen Piccini now on DVD. While there have been several films on Fellini's art over the years - including Scorsese's own tribute in his acclaimed film essay, My Voyage to Italy - there has yet to be a definitive documentary on Italy's most internationally famous filmmaker. Most of them have been anecdotal like the recent Fellini: I'm a Born Liar or biased (Paquito del Bosco's Federico Fellini's Autobiography) or promotional (the director's own Fellini: A Director's Notebook). And this recent addition to the collection is more like a scrapbook juxtaposing photographs, home movie and behind the scenes footage, sketches, talking head interviews and film clips (the visual quality varies from scene to scene based on the source materials available).