(aka "Fellini Satyricon" or " The Degenerates")
Italy / France 1969
Federico Fellini describes his "Fellini Satyricon" as a science-fiction
film, but one in which we journey to the past rather than to the future.
Directors are notoriously unreliable as sources of opinions about their own
movies, but in this case I think Fellini is dead right.
His film is a fantastical journey to a pre-Christian Rome that resembles no
civilization that ever was, in heaven or on Earth. And it is a masterpiece.
Some will say it is a bloody, depraved, disgusting film; indeed, people by the
dozens were escaping from the sneak preview I attended. But "Fellini
Satyricon" is a masterpiece all the same, and films that dare everything
cannot please everybody.
This time, Fellini invites us into his own mind. He makes no attempt to tell a
story, although he succeeds in telling several. He makes no attempt to be
lucid, or philosophical, or to make sense. At last we are allowed to look
beneath the surface of films like "La Dolce Vita" and "Juliet of the Spirits,"
and to glimpse the horrible underworld that lurks down there.
Lurking under the stories of his 1960s movies, there seemed to be something
frightening that was not rational at all. "Fellini Satyricon" is that lower
region; it is the nightmare shared by all the haunted characters in his
earlier films, by Marcello, by Juliet, especially by Steiner.
Excerpt of Roger Ebert's review at the Chicago Sun Times located HERE
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Theatrical Release: September 3, 1969
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| Runtime | 2:09.27 | 2:04:08 (4% PAL speedup) |
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| Audio | Italian (DD 2.0 mono), English (DD 2.0 mono) |
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| Subtitles | English, French, Spanish, none | English (HOH - only), French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Greek, none |
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Interesting comparison in that it
indicates use of the same transfer for both the R1 and R2 release, with
minimal differences overall. The R2 has a more substantial bit rate but
includes two additional audio tracks that may make up that difference.
Which one you will prefer may boil down to availability, player preference
(PAL vs NTSC) and language/subtitle track.
Peter is spot-on with his comments. The Region 1 may be slightly darker and I think the PAL version may have the superior contrast. It is possible that the NTSC may be marginally sharper, but again differences are of negligible. Gary W. Tooze NOTE: the PAL edition's English subtitles are only hearing Impaired! |
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Recommended Books on Federico Fellini (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
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Federico Fellini by Christopher Wiegand |
Fellini on Fellini by Federico Fellini, Isabel Quigley |
The Cinema of Federico Fellini by Peter Bondanella |
The Films of Federico Fellini (Cambridge
Film Classics) by Peter Bondanella, Ray Carney |
I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon by Damian Pettigrew |
Fellini by Lietta Tornabuoni |
Fellini: A Life by Hollis Alpert |
I, Fellini by Charlotte Chandler, Billy Wilder |
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