Post by london777 on Mar 28, 2021 3:35:51 GMT
8½ (1963) dir: Federico Fellini is many people's favourite film, and appears in many Top 10s, Top 100s, etc. Film-makers especially pay homage to it. (My own view is that its cinematic influence exceeds its intrinsic quality as a movie).
What other directors created their own equivalent?
My question arises from having just watched All That Jazz (1979) directed, choreographed, and co-written by Bob Fosse. From my previous posts you may know that I generally despise musicals, putting them on the same low level as westerns. Fosse's film is terrific, however. I guess it is to musicals what The Searchers is to westerns.
Woody Allen, obviously, with Stardust Memories (1980), which is both an homage to and at times a parody of the Fellini film.
The nearest equivalent to 8½ which I have seen is Everything for Sale (1969) dir: Andrzej Wajda. Wajda many times denied the influence of the Fellini film, but he is deluding himself. It jumps out at you. This is not to say that his film is not very worthwhile in its own right, It may become one of my favourite Wajdas and it is very "meta". The narration jumps back and forth in time, and sometimes we do not know if we are watching real-life, or scenes from a film about the same events and characters or, indeed, actors acting out the events for an unseen camera. I need to watch it again to make more sense of it. Once I have done that I will try to write about it in our "Films About Making Films" thread, because it is a prime example.
What other examples can you think of? A straight autobiopic won't qualify. The director's life or career must be intertwined with the plot of the film we are watching. What I call a "meta" film,
What other directors created their own equivalent?
My question arises from having just watched All That Jazz (1979) directed, choreographed, and co-written by Bob Fosse. From my previous posts you may know that I generally despise musicals, putting them on the same low level as westerns. Fosse's film is terrific, however. I guess it is to musicals what The Searchers is to westerns.
Woody Allen, obviously, with Stardust Memories (1980), which is both an homage to and at times a parody of the Fellini film.
The nearest equivalent to 8½ which I have seen is Everything for Sale (1969) dir: Andrzej Wajda. Wajda many times denied the influence of the Fellini film, but he is deluding himself. It jumps out at you. This is not to say that his film is not very worthwhile in its own right, It may become one of my favourite Wajdas and it is very "meta". The narration jumps back and forth in time, and sometimes we do not know if we are watching real-life, or scenes from a film about the same events and characters or, indeed, actors acting out the events for an unseen camera. I need to watch it again to make more sense of it. Once I have done that I will try to write about it in our "Films About Making Films" thread, because it is a prime example.
What other examples can you think of? A straight autobiopic won't qualify. The director's life or career must be intertwined with the plot of the film we are watching. What I call a "meta" film,