woensdag, mei 21, 2003
Federico Fellini is everywhere you look in Cannes as the film festival pays tribute to the Italian maestro on the 10th anniversary of his death. Twenty of the Italian showman's specially re-mastered films are being shown, many in the magical setting of a special open-air cinema on the beach. Cineastes sing his praises at round table discussions. Documentaries abound with one even offering details of a train sequence that was planned as the alternative ending for "Otto e mezzo."
Fellini would have loved the flashy setting for he, just like the Cannes film festival, revelled in the flamboyant and the fantastic.The tribute is doubly appropriate as this playground for the rich and famous is like a magnet for paparazzi -- the celebrity photographers immortalised in "La Dolce Vita." Like movie moguls peddling their dreams at opulent parties on luxury yachts in Cannes harbour, Fellini always reveled in the dream world of the silver screen.
Fellini would certainly have loved the irony of "La Dolce Vita" being revived in this fashionable Riviera resort where the probing lenses of the paparazzi reign supreme. Fellini based a character in the film on Tazio Secchiaroli, the photographer who preyed on movie moguls, deposed kings and Italian nobility on Rome's legendary Via Veneto and captured them in candid shots. The character was called Paparazzo, a name that immortalized the prying breed who have since chased every celebrity round the world from Princess Diana to Madonna.
Bron: Reuters.
Tazio Secchiaroli
Fellini would have loved the flashy setting for he, just like the Cannes film festival, revelled in the flamboyant and the fantastic.The tribute is doubly appropriate as this playground for the rich and famous is like a magnet for paparazzi -- the celebrity photographers immortalised in "La Dolce Vita." Like movie moguls peddling their dreams at opulent parties on luxury yachts in Cannes harbour, Fellini always reveled in the dream world of the silver screen.
Fellini would certainly have loved the irony of "La Dolce Vita" being revived in this fashionable Riviera resort where the probing lenses of the paparazzi reign supreme. Fellini based a character in the film on Tazio Secchiaroli, the photographer who preyed on movie moguls, deposed kings and Italian nobility on Rome's legendary Via Veneto and captured them in candid shots. The character was called Paparazzo, a name that immortalized the prying breed who have since chased every celebrity round the world from Princess Diana to Madonna.
Bron: Reuters.
Tazio Secchiaroli
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