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Article: Stardust Memories.(Review)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 27, 1999
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I don't usually write about documentaries, because most of them belong under the rubric of reportage rather than art. To be sure, most feature films, too, fall very far short of art, generally aspiring only to be popular entertainments, and failing even at that. Clearly outclassing the current copycat, featureless feature films, however, is the documentary Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember, by Anna Maria Tato, whose name the press kit misspells Tato, which admittedly is nothing compared with the film's misnaming one of Mastroianni's favorite childhood movies as Flaying Down to Rio. Still, flaying alive might not qualify as excessive punishment for many in today's movie ...
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Article: MARCELLO MASTROIANNI, 72, ACCLAIMED ITALIAN FILM ...
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December 20, 1996 ;
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... ... The New York Times Marcello Mastroianni, the Italian actor ... Fellini remarked that Mastroianni's talent was not ... The legend that Marcello is indifferent or ... Monicelli, who directed Mastroianni in the role of a bumbling ...
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