FELLINI’S LANGUAGE OF DREAMS: ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW (1984)
Jonathan Cott interviews Federico Fellini for Rolling Stone magazine. The conversation took place in the director’s office in Rome, February 1984
Jonathan Cott interviews Federico Fellini for Rolling Stone magazine. The conversation took place in the director’s office in Rome, February 1984
The interview is transcribed from taped material obtained during the shooting of Nostalghia. As well, there are excerpts from conversations that were never recorded, and a brief excerpt from their first 1962 conversation, along with a few other statements made by Tarkovsky
The conversation which follows did not take place all at once. Although I had known Federico Fellini since 1956, we had not actually sat down to discuss his filmmaking ideas and his life philosophy until a few years before his death.
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