Dalilah ( Egyptian Arabic : دليلة Daleela ) also Delia Turina (born as Adelaida Angulo Agramunt ), (7 July 1936 – 17 September 2001) was a Spanish oriental dancer.
74-535: Turina is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Delia Turina (1936–2001), Egyptian-Spanish oriental dancer Ivan Turina (1980–2013), Croatian footballer Joaquín Turina (1882–1949), Spanish classical composer José Luis Turina (born 1952), Spanish composer Luciana Turina (born 1946), Italian singer, actress and television personality Marko Turina (born 1937), Croatian cardiac surgeon [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
148-407: A docufiction both for cinema and television, based on his childhood memories of the circus and a "coherent theory of clowning." As he saw it, the clown "was always the caricature of a well-established, ordered, peaceful society. But today all is temporary, disordered, grotesque. Who can still laugh at clowns?... All the world plays a clown now." In March 1971, Fellini began production on Roma ,
222-434: A "public sinner", for La Dolce Vita , Fellini responded with The Temptations of Doctor Antonio , a segment in the omnibus Boccaccio '70 . His second colour film, it was the sole project green-lighted at Federiz. Infused with the surrealistic satire that characterized the young Fellini's work at Marc'Aurelio , the film ridiculed a crusader against vice, interpreted by Peppino De Filippo , who goes insane trying to censor
296-580: A 74-page booklet in ten chapters describing the absurd adventures of Pasqualino, an alter ego. Writing for radio while attempting to avoid the draft, Fellini met his future wife Giulietta Masina in a studio office at the Italian public radio broadcaster EIAR in the autumn of 1942. Well-paid as the voice of Pallina in Fellini's radio serial, Cico and Pallina , Masina was also well known for her musical-comedy broadcasts which cheered an audience depressed by
370-411: A billboard of Anita Ekberg espousing the virtues of milk. In an October 1960 letter to his colleague Brunello Rondi, Fellini first outlined his film ideas about a man suffering creative block: "Well then – a guy (a writer? any kind of professional man? a theatrical producer?) has to interrupt the usual rhythm of his life for two weeks because of a not-too-serious disease. It's a warning bell: something
444-507: A brief period of therapy with Freudian psychoanalyst Emilio Servadio. Fellini cast American actor Broderick Crawford to interpret the role of an aging swindler in Il Bidone . Based partly on stories told to him by a petty thief during production of La Strada , Fellini developed the script into a con man's slow descent. To incarnate the role's "intense, tragic face", Fellini's first choice had been Humphrey Bogart , but after learning of
518-557: A comedy directed by Mario Monicelli with Goldie Hawn and Giancarlo Giannini . For Eduardo De Filippo , he co-wrote the script of Fortunella . The Hollywood on the Tiber phenomenon of 1958 in which American studios profited from the cheap studio labour available in Rome provided the backdrop for photojournalists to steal shots of celebrities on the via Veneto. The scandal provoked by Turkish dancer Haish Nana's improvised striptease at
592-596: A comedy writer on Mario Mattoli 's Il pirata sono io ( The Pirate's Dream ). Progressing rapidly to numerous collaborations on films at Cinecittà , his circle of professional acquaintances widened to include novelist Vitaliano Brancati and scriptwriter Piero Tellini. In the wake of Mussolini's declaration of war against France and Britain on 10 June 1940, Fellini discovered Kafka 's The Metamorphosis , Gogol , John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné , René Clair , and Julien Duvivier . In 1941 he published Il mio amico Pasqualino ,
666-498: A consequence, Jung's seminal ideas on the anima and the animus , the role of archetypes and the collective unconscious directly influenced such films as 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Casanova (1976), and City of Women (1980). Other key influences on his work include Luis Buñuel , Charlie Chaplin , Sergei Eisenstein , Buster Keaton , Laurel and Hardy ,
740-525: A decade. In February 1950, Paisà received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay by Rossellini, Sergio Amidei , and Fellini. After travelling to Paris for a script conference with Rossellini on Europa '51 , Fellini began production on The White Sheik in September 1951, his first solo-directed feature. Starring Alberto Sordi in the title role, the film is a revised version of a treatment first written by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1949 and based on
814-471: A living. The crisis came to a head in April when, sitting in his Cinecittà office, he began a letter to Rizzoli confessing he had "lost his film" and had to abandon the project. Interrupted by the chief machinist requesting he celebrate the launch of 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 , Fellini put aside the letter and went on the set. Raising a toast to the crew, he "felt overwhelmed by shame… I was in a no exit situation. I
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#1732801877846888-447: A new Fellini, no longer just a screenwriter, working and sketching at his desk, but a filmmaker out in the field". The apolitical Fellini was finally freed of the draft when an Allied air raid over Bologna destroyed his medical records. Fellini and Giulietta hid in her aunt's apartment until Mussolini's fall on 25 July 1943. After dating for nine months, the couple were married on 30 October 1943. Several months later, Masina fell down
962-523: A nightclub captured Fellini's imagination: he decided to end his latest script-in-progress, Moraldo in the City , with an all-night "orgy" at a seaside villa. Pierluigi Praturlon 's photos of Anita Ekberg after an evening spent with the actress in a Rome night club provided further inspiration for Fellini and his screenwriters. Changing the title of the screenplay to La Dolce Vita , Fellini soon clashed with his producer on casting: The director insisted on
1036-655: A period of six months between January and June 1973, Fellini shot the Oscar -winning Amarcord . Loosely based on the director's 1968 autobiographical essay My Rimini , the film depicts the adolescent Titta and his friends working out their sexual frustrations against the religious and Fascist backdrop of a provincial town in Italy during the 1930s. Produced by Franco Cristaldi , the seriocomic movie became Fellini's second biggest commercial success after La Dolce Vita . Circular in form, Amarcord avoids plot and linear narrative in
1110-490: A seemingly random collection of episodes informed by the director's memories and impressions of Rome. The "diverse sequences," writes Fellini scholar Peter Bondanella , "are held together only by the fact that they all ultimately originate from the director's fertile imagination." The film's opening scene anticipates Amarcord while its most surreal sequence involves an ecclesiastical fashion show in which nuns and priests roller skate past shipwrecks of cobwebbed skeletons. Over
1184-834: A small town on the Adriatic Sea . On 25 January, at the San Nicolò church he was baptized Federico Domenico Marcello Fellini. His father, Urbano Fellini (1894–1956), born to a family of Romagnol peasants and small landholders from Gambettola , moved to Rome in 1915 as a baker apprenticed to the Pantanella pasta factory. His mother, Ida Barbiani (1896–1984), came from a bourgeois Catholic family of Roman merchants . Despite her family's vehement disapproval, she had eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents' home in Gambettola. A civil marriage followed in 1918 with
1258-426: A treatment based on a film adaptation of Mario Tobino 's novel, The Free Women of Magliano . Set in a mental institution for women, the project was abandoned when financial backers considered the subject had no potential. While preparing Nights of Cabiria in spring 1956, Fellini learned of his father's death by cardiac arrest at the age of sixty-two. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Giulietta Masina,
1332-434: A way similar to The Clowns and Roma . The director's overriding concern with developing a poetic form of cinema was first outlined in a 1965 interview he gave to The New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross : "I am trying to free my work from certain constrictions – a story with a beginning, a development, an ending. It should be more like a poem with metre and cadence." Organized by his publisher Diogenes Verlag in 1982,
1406-464: Is blocking up his system." Unclear about the script, its title, and his protagonist's profession, he scouted locations throughout Italy "looking for the film", in the hope of resolving his confusion. Flaiano suggested La bella confusione (literally The Beautiful Confusion ) as the movie's title. Under pressure from his producers, Fellini finally settled on 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 , a self-referential title referring principally (but not exclusively) to
1480-412: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Delia Turina From the age of 3 she began her career as a dancer with instructors like Miss Karen Taft (Ballet), La Quica and Regla Ortega (Flamenco), José Luis Udaeta (Spanish Classical Dance) and Luisa Perice (Bolero School). In 1954, she traveled to Egypt for the first time with her Spanish dance partner Jose Molina. Entertaining on
1554-474: Is not memory that dominates my films. To say that my films are autobiographical is an overly facile liquidation, a hasty classification. It seems to me that I have invented almost everything: childhood, character, nostalgias, dreams, memories, for the pleasure of being able to recount them. In 1937, Fellini opened Febo, a portrait shop in Rimini, with the painter Demos Bonini. His first humorous article appeared in
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#17328018778461628-540: Is soon demolished by his wife's obsession with the White Sheik. Highlighting the music of Nino Rota , the film was selected at Cannes (among the films in competition was Orson Welles 's Othello ) and then retracted. Screened at the 13th Venice International Film Festival , it was razzed by critics in "the atmosphere of a soccer match". One reviewer declared that Fellini had "not the slightest aptitude for cinema direction". In 1953, I Vitelloni found favour with
1702-753: The Avanguardista , the compulsory Fascist youth group for males. He visited Rome with his parents for the first time in 1933, the year of the maiden voyage of the transatlantic ocean liner SS Rex (which is shown in Amarcord ). The sea creature found on the beach at the end of La Dolce Vita (1960) has its basis in a giant fish marooned on a Rimini beach during a storm in 1934. Although Fellini adapted key events from his childhood and adolescence in films such as I Vitelloni (1953), 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 (1963), and Amarcord (1973), he insisted that such autobiographical memories were inventions: It
1776-400: The I Ching and keep a record of his dreams. What Fellini formerly accepted as "his extrasensory perceptions" were now interpreted as psychic manifestations of the unconscious. Bernhard's focus on Jungian depth psychology proved to be the single greatest influence on Fellini's mature style and marked the turning point in his work from neorealism to filmmaking that was "primarily oneiric". As
1850-527: The 30th Academy Awards and brought Masina the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance. With Pinelli, he developed Journey with Anita for Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck . An "invention born out of intimate truth", the script was based on Fellini's return to Rimini with a mistress to attend his father's funeral. Due to Loren's unavailability, the project was shelved and resurrected twenty-five years later as Lovers and Liars (1981),
1924-514: The Marx Brothers , and Roberto Rossellini . Exploiting La Dolce Vita ' s success, financier Angelo Rizzoli set up Federiz in 1960, an independent film company, for Fellini and production manager Clemente Fracassi to discover and produce new talent. Despite the best intentions, their overcautious editorial and business skills forced the company to close down soon after cancelling Pasolini's project, Accattone (1961). Condemned as
1998-702: The Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita in 1960, two times the Moscow International Film Festival in 1963 and 1987, and the Career Golden Lion at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival in 1985. In Sight & Sound ' s 2002 list of the greatest directors of all time, Fellini was ranked 2nd in the directors' poll and 7th in the critics' poll. Fellini was born on 20 January 1920, to middle-class parents in Rimini , then
2072-471: The Sapienza University of Rome to please his parents. Biographer Hollis Alpert reports that "there is no record of his ever having attended a class". Installed in a family pensione , he met another lifelong friend, the painter Rinaldo Geleng. Desperately poor, they unsuccessfully joined forces to draw sketches of restaurant and café patrons. Fellini eventually found work as a cub reporter on
2146-496: The fotoromanzi , the photographed cartoon strip romances popular in Italy at the time. Producer Carlo Ponti commissioned Fellini and Tullio Pinelli to write the script but Antonioni rejected the story they developed. With Ennio Flaiano , they re-worked the material into a light-hearted satire about newlywed couple Ivan and Wanda Cavalli ( Leopoldo Trieste , Brunella Bovo) in Rome to visit the Pope. Ivan's prissy mask of respectability
2220-642: The surname Turina . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turina&oldid=1235238022 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of Croatian origin Surnames of Italian origin Surnames of Spanish origin Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from July 2024 Articles with short description Short description
2294-455: The "Postcards to Our Readers" section of Milan's Domenica del Corriere . Deciding on a career as a caricaturist and gag writer, Fellini travelled to Florence in 1938, where he published his first cartoon in the weekly 420 . According to a biographer, Fellini found school "exasperating" and, in one year, had 67 absences. Failing his military culture exam, he graduated from high school in 1939. In September 1939, he enrolled in law school at
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2368-593: The Carlo Tonini public school two years later. An attentive student, he spent his leisure time drawing, staging puppet shows and reading Il corriere dei piccoli , the popular children's magazine that reproduced traditional American cartoons by Winsor McCay , George McManus and Frederick Burr Opper . (Opper's Happy Hooligan would provide the visual inspiration for Gelsomina in Fellini's 1954 film La Strada ; McCay's Little Nemo would directly influence his 1980 film City of Women .) In 1926, he discovered
2442-732: The Christian Democrats demanded tolerance for the film's controversial themes. The Vatican 's official press organ, L'Osservatore Romano , lobbied for censorship while the Board of Roman Parish Priests and the Genealogical Board of Italian Nobility attacked the film. In one documented instance involving favourable reviews written by the Jesuits of San Fedele, defending La Dolce Vita had severe consequences. In competition at Cannes alongside Antonioni's L'Avventura ,
2516-606: The Desert , 1942), directed by Osvaldo Valenti and Gino Talamo. Fellini welcomed the assignment as it allowed him "to secure another extension on his draft order". Responsible for emergency re-writing, he also directed the film's first scenes. When Tripoli fell under siege by British forces, he and his colleagues made a narrow escape by boarding a German military plane flying to Sicily . His African adventure, later published in Marc'Aurelio as "The First Flight", marked "the emergence of
2590-474: The Egyptian Ministry of Culture “Belly dancers dream come true”, the very first ground-breaking belly dance tour to Cairo, where American women were offered authentic oriental dance and culture from both prominent contemporary dancers, as well as from legendary professionals such as Tahia Carioca , Soheir Zaki and Samia Gamal . These tours attracted plenty of media attention and were televised in
2664-642: The Middle East and they were forced to leave, moving temporarily to Mexico. In 1974, she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she opened her dance studio and boutique. Over a ten-year period, she taught American audiences pure, authentic Egyptian oriental and folk dance. During this time, she invited Mahmoud Reda to the USA for his first exposure to American audiences, and as a team, they conducted seminars and workshops from coast to coast to thousands of Americans. Between 1977 and 1978, Dalilah organised along with
2738-511: The Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and Fellini's Casanova (1976). Fellini was nominated for 17 Academy Awards over the course of his career, winning a total of four in the category of Best Foreign Language Film (the most for any director in the history of the award). He received an honorary award for Lifetime Achievement at the 65th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Fellini also won
2812-476: The Spirits (1965), depicting Giulietta Masina as Juliet, a housewife who rightly suspects her husband's infidelity and succumbs to the voices of spirits summoned during a séance at her home. Her sexually voracious next door neighbor Suzy ( Sandra Milo ) introduces Juliet to a world of uninhibited sensuality, but Juliet is haunted by childhood memories of her Catholic guilt and a teenaged friend who committed suicide. Complex and filled with psychological symbolism,
2886-649: The United States by the ABC 20/20 show. In 1984, Dalilah retired to her home town of Madrid, Spain, where she found that belly dance had started to develop just after the rule of Franco . In 2000 she came back into the limelight to teach master classes, choreograph films, coach professionals and perform in a show called “Arabesque”. She died suddenly in 2001. Federico Fellini Federico Fellini Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni] ; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993)
2960-561: The actor to play the role of Father Giuseppe Morosini , the parish priest executed by the SS on 4 April 1944. In 1947, Fellini and Sergio Amidei received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of Rome, Open City . Working as both screenwriter and assistant director on Rossellini's Paisà ( Paisan ) in 1946, Fellini was entrusted to film the Sicilian scenes in Maiori . In February 1948, he
3034-478: The actor's lung cancer, chose Crawford after seeing his face on the theatrical poster of All the King's Men (1949). The film shoot was wrought with difficulties stemming from Crawford's alcoholism. Savaged by critics at the 16th Venice International Film Festival , the film did miserably at the box office and did not receive international distribution until 1964. During the autumn, Fellini researched and developed
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3108-558: The critics and public. Winning the Silver Lion Award in Venice, it secured Fellini his first international distributor. Fellini directed La Strada based on a script completed in 1952 with Pinelli and Flaiano. It starred his wife Giulietta Masina , Anthony Quinn , and Richard Basehart . During the last three weeks of shooting, Fellini experienced the first signs of severe clinical depression. Aided by his wife, he undertook
3182-452: The dailies Il Piccolo and Il Popolo di Roma , but quit after a short stint, bored by the local court news assignments. Four months after publishing his first article in Marc'Aurelio , the highly influential biweekly humour magazine, he joined the editorial board, achieving success with a regular column titled But Are You Listening? . Described as "the determining moment in Fellini's life",
3256-555: The early 1960s, accompanied by her three piece Egyptian orchestra. Her popularity was such that during one of her visits to Italy, she was asked to perform at a private gathering held by Federico Fellini for his film “La dolce vita”. After her European tour, she returned to Beirut to perform at the Hotel Phoenicia and the Casino du Liban, where she met her husband Paul King , a popular singer from London. War soon broke out in
3330-476: The feasibility of a film. After first meeting Castaneda in Rome in October 1984, Fellini drafted a treatment with Pinelli titled Viaggio a Tulun . Producer Alberto Grimaldi , prepared to buy film rights to all of Castaneda's work, then paid for pre-production research taking Fellini and his entourage from Rome to Los Angeles and the jungles of Mexico in October 1985. When Castaneda inexplicably disappeared and
3404-595: The film is set to a jaunty score by Nino Rota . To help promote Satyricon in the United States, Fellini flew to Los Angeles in January 1970 for interviews with Dick Cavett and David Frost . He also met with film director Paul Mazursky who wanted to cast him in a starring role alongside Donald Sutherland in his new film, Alex in Wonderland . In February, Fellini scouted locations in Paris for The Clowns ,
3478-473: The film took its inspiration from news reports of a woman's severed head retrieved in a lake and stories by Wanda, a shantytown prostitute Fellini met on the set of Il Bidone . Pier Paolo Pasolini was hired to translate Flaiano and Pinelli's dialogue into Roman dialect and to supervise researches in the vice-afflicted suburbs of Rome. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at
3552-485: The film won the Palme d'Or awarded by presiding juror Georges Simenon . The Belgian writer was promptly "hissed at" by the disapproving festival crowd. A major discovery for Fellini after his Italian neorealism period (1950–1959) was the work of Carl Jung . After meeting Jungian psychoanalyst Dr. Ernst Bernhard in early 1960, he read Jung's autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) and experimented with LSD . Bernhard also recommended that Fellini consult
3626-696: The first major exhibition of 63 drawings by Fellini was held in Paris , Brussels , and the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York . A gifted caricaturist, he found much of the inspiration for his sketches from his own dreams while the films-in-progress both originated from and stimulated drawings for characters, decor, costumes and set designs. Under the title, I disegni di Fellini (Fellini's Designs), he published 350 drawings executed in pencil, watercolours, and felt pens. On 6 September 1985 Fellini
3700-426: The first time he visited Cinecittà in 1939 with present-day footage of himself at work on a screen adaptation of Franz Kafka 's Amerika . A meditation on the nature of memory and film production, it won the special 40th Anniversary Prize at Cannes and the 15th Moscow International Film Festival Golden Prize. In Brussels later that year, a panel of thirty professionals from eighteen European countries named Fellini
3774-450: The maestro's cinema. Nominated for four Oscars, 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 won awards for best foreign language film and best costume design in black-and-white. In California for the ceremony, Fellini toured Disneyland with Walt Disney the day after. Increasingly attracted to parapsychology , Fellini met the Turin antiquarian Gustavo Rol in 1963. Rol, a former banker, introduced him to
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#17328018778463848-609: The magazine gave him steady employment between 1939 and 1942, when he interacted with writers, gagmen, and scriptwriters. These encounters eventually led to opportunities in show business and cinema. Among his collaborators on the magazine's editorial board were the future director Ettore Scola , Marxist theorist and scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini , and Bernardino Zapponi , a future Fellini screenwriter. Conducting interviews for CineMagazzino also proved congenial: when asked to interview Aldo Fabrizi , Italy's most popular variety performer, he established such immediate personal rapport with
3922-457: The man that they collaborated professionally. Specializing in humorous monologues, Fabrizi commissioned material from his young protégé. Retained on business in Rimini, Urbano sent his wife and family to Rome in 1940 to share an apartment with his son. Fellini and Ruggero Maccari, also on the staff of Marc'Aurelio , began writing radio sketches and gags for films. Not yet twenty and with Fabrizi's help, Fellini obtained his first screen credit as
3996-541: The number of films he had directed up to that time. Giving the order to start production in spring 1962, Fellini signed deals with his producer Rizzoli, fixed dates, had sets constructed, cast Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée , and Sandra Milo in lead roles, and did screen tests at the Scalera Studios in Rome. He hired cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo , among key personnel. But apart from naming his hero Guido Anselmi, he still couldn't decide what his character did for
4070-401: The postwar recession drawing caricatures of American soldiers. He became involved with Italian Neorealism when Roberto Rossellini , at work on Stories of Yesteryear (later Rome, Open City ), met Fellini in his shop, and proposed he contribute gags and dialogue for the script. Aware of Fellini's reputation as Aldo Fabrizi's "creative muse", Rossellini also requested that he try to convince
4144-598: The project fell through, Fellini's mystico-shamanic adventures were scripted with Pinelli and serialized in Corriere della Sera in May 1986. A barely veiled satirical interpretation of Castaneda's work, Viaggio a Tulun was published in 1989 as a graphic novel with artwork by Milo Manara and as Trip to Tulum in America in 1990. For Intervista , produced by Ibrahim Moussa and RAI Television, Fellini intercut memories of
4218-484: The reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to my self. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one. Fellini's hallucinatory insights were given full flower in his first colour feature Juliet of
4292-416: The relatively unknown Mastroianni while De Laurentiis wanted Paul Newman as a hedge on his investment. Reaching an impasse, De Laurentiis sold the rights to publishing mogul Angelo Rizzoli . Shooting began on 16 March 1959 with Anita Ekberg climbing the stairs to the cupola of Saint Peter's in a mammoth décor constructed at Cinecittà . The statue of Christ flown by helicopter over Rome to St. Peter's Square
4366-427: The religious ceremony held at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome a year later. The couple settled in Rimini where Urbano became a traveling salesman and wholesale vendor . Fellini had two siblings, Riccardo (1921–1991), a documentary director for RAI Television, and Maria Maddalena (m. Fabbri; 1929–2002). In 1924, Fellini started primary school in an institute run by the nuns of San Vincenzo in Rimini, attending
4440-573: The role of a vagabond rogue mistaken by Magnani for a saint, Fellini had to bleach his black hair blond. In 1950 Fellini co-produced and co-directed with Alberto Lattuada Variety Lights ( Luci del varietà ), his first feature film. A backstage comedy set among the world of small-time travelling performers, it featured Giulietta Masina and Lattuada's wife, Carla Del Poggio . Its release to poor reviews and limited distribution proved disastrous for all concerned. The production company went bankrupt, leaving both Fellini and Lattuada with debts to pay for over
4514-416: The same bill were Egyptian celebrities such as Samia Gamal , Nadia Gamal , Hoda Shams Eldin, Tahia Carioca and other dancing personalities performed. Due to artistic differences, the couple soon split. Overnight Dalilah found herself discovered and encouraged by the singer Wadih Al Safi, where she decided to give up her Spanish dancing career to follow the rhythms of the belly dance . In 1959, Dalilah
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#17328018778464588-436: The seemingly chaotic, incessant improvisation on the set, Deena Boyer, the director's American press officer at the time, asked for a rationale. Fellini told her that he hoped to convey the three levels "on which our minds live: the past, the present, and the conditional — the realm of fantasy". After shooting wrapped on 14 October, Nino Rota composed various circus marches and fanfares that would later become signature tunes of
4662-517: The stairs and suffered a miscarriage. She gave birth to a son, Pierfederico, on 22 March 1945, but the child died of encephalitis 11 days later on 2 April 1945. Masina and Fellini had no other children. The tragedy had enduring emotional and artistic repercussions. After the Allied liberation of Rome on 4 June 1944, Fellini and Enrico De Seta opened the Funny Face Shop where they survived
4736-411: The war. Giulietta is practical, and likes the fact that she earns a handsome fee for her radio work, whereas theater never pays well. And of course the fame counts for something too. Radio is a booming business and comedy reviews have a broad and devoted public. In November 1942, Fellini was sent to Libya , occupied by Fascist Italy, to work on the screenplay of I cavalieri del deserto ( Knights of
4810-736: The world of Grand Guignol , the circus with Pierino the Clown and the movies. Guido Brignone 's Maciste all'inferno (1925, Maciste in Hell ), the first film he saw, would mark him in ways linked to Dante and the cinema throughout his entire career. Enrolled at the Ginnasio Giulio Cesare in 1929, he made friends with Luigi Titta Benzi, later a prominent Rimini lawyer (and the model for young Titta in Amarcord (1973)). In Mussolini 's Italy, Fellini and Riccardo became members of
4884-450: The world of Spiritism and séances . In 1964, Fellini took LSD under the supervision of Emilio Servadio, his psychoanalyst during the 1954 production of La Strada . For years reserved about what actually occurred that Sunday afternoon, he admitted in 1992 that ... objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from
4958-456: The world's best director and 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 the best European film of all time. In early 1989 Fellini began production on The Voice of the Moon , based on Ermanno Cavazzoni's novel, Il poema dei lunatici ( The Lunatics' Poem ). A small town was built at Empire Studios on the via Pontina outside Rome. Starring Roberto Benigni as Ivo Salvini, a madcap poetic figure newly released from
5032-475: Was a director who wanted to make a film he no longer remembers. And lo and behold, at that very moment everything fell into place. I got straight to the heart of the film. I would narrate everything that had been happening to me. I would make a film telling the story of a director who no longer knows what film he wanted to make". The self-mirroring structure makes the entire film inseparable from its reflecting construction. Shooting began on 9 May 1962. Perplexed by
5106-587: Was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked highly in critical polls such as that of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound , which lists his 1963 film 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 as the 10th-greatest film. Fellini's best-known films include I vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of
5180-635: Was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 42nd Venice Film Festival. That same year, he became the first non-American to receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center 's annual award for cinematic achievement. Long fascinated by Carlos Castaneda 's The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge , Fellini accompanied the Peruvian author on a journey to the Yucatán to assess
5254-529: Was chosen alongside Nagwa Fouad , as dancer of the year for the grand opening of the Nile Hilton in Cairo. Conrad Hilton flew in several Hollywood celebrities for the occasion, including Martha Hyer , Jane Russell and Van Johnson . During this era, she struggled with other native dancers, but had the privilege of being the protege of Tahia Carioca, who encouraged and helped her with her advice. Dalilah
5328-581: Was given the opportunity to perform for royalty throughout the Middle East (the Shah of Persia and Queen Soraya , King Farouk , King Hussein of Jordan , King Faisal of Saudi Arabia , the Sultan of Bahrain, and other personalities from politics as Nasser , Yugoslav president Marshal Josip Broz Tito and Lebanese President Camille Chamoun ). After living in Egypt for several years, she traveled to Europe during
5402-472: Was inspired by an actual media event on 1 May 1956, which Fellini had witnessed. La Dolce Vita broke all box office records. Despite scalpers selling tickets at 1000 lire, crowds queued in line for hours to see an "immoral movie" before the censors banned it. At an exclusive Milan screening on 5 February 1960, one outraged patron spat on Fellini while others hurled insults. Denounced in parliament by right-wing conservatives, undersecretary Domenico Magrì of
5476-529: Was introduced to Marcello Mastroianni , then a young theatre actor appearing in a play with Giulietta Masina. Establishing a close working relationship with Alberto Lattuada , Fellini co-wrote the director's Senza pietà ( Without Pity ) and Il mulino del Po ( The Mill on the Po ). Fellini also worked with Rossellini on the anthology film L'Amore (1948), co-writing the screenplay and in one segment titled, "The Miracle", acting opposite Anna Magnani . To play
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