Quick, Mike! You know we’re doing a Fellini film this week, as we re-enter our “Cuz It’s Good For You” series! That means we have to be classy, elegant, refined! This is an art film! One of the greats, apparently! Get your Prada suit on! Get your Gucci loafers ready! I’ve got the Chianti bottle with a melty candle in it, and I just opened a nice bottle of Casa di Velours for us to enjoy. I’m not freaking out, you’re freaking out! I just want everything to be nice and Fellini-esque before we start! Oh, good, the stately procession of pale Archbishops is here. And here come the little people dressed as members of the various branches of the Italian military . . . dammit, where are the disapproving nuns with umbrellas?! How can we discuss Fellini without disapproving nuns with umbrellas? Wait, where are your Gucci loafers? What?! No, Keds is NOT the same thing! Oh god, now I’m hallucinating my grandmother playing badminton with Emperor Franz Joseph in a cemetery! . . . wait, that means everything IS perfect for a Fellini discussion! Molto bene! Give a listen!
Poll question: is there a film that you can’t decide if you like it or not?
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Tough question! I usually have a feeling one way or another about films, including “meh.” One film, the 1941 film “Ladies in Retirement,” I watched as a joke when a friend and I were preparing to retire. I chose it on the title alone and read it was a comedy. Visually, it is stunning and has a good cast, but I still can’t decide if it was good or not. If it’s a comedy, it’s a very dark one, and the only character that I had any sympathy for is killed by the main character, who we are supposed to somehow root for and feel bad for at the end. I just can’t decide if it’s a good movie I had the wrong expectations of or a bad movie with some good elements that is tricking me into thinking it’s better than it is.
ANOTHER one I’ve never heard of, and one that sounds intriguing! A 1941 dark comedy . . . that’s unusual. Thanks, Vince!