list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Juliet of the Spirits on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Juliet_of_the_Spirits/18423/default.aspx Title: Juliet of the Spirits
Year: 1965
Director: Federico Fellini
Plot: Juliet of the Spirits is a fantastical showcase for Federico Fellini's vibrant imagery, starring his wife, Giulietta Masina, as the titular leading character. Juliet is a wealthy housewife who constantly fears her husband, Giorgio (Mario Pisu), is cheating on her. While she yearns for a peaceful intimate evening on the night of their 15th anniversary, the egotistical Giorgio has forgotten about it and instead arrives home with his eccentric friends. After a trip to a séance, Juliet is haunted by images from the spirit world, including obsessions from her past involving religion and her late relatives. With her sisters and mother prying into her life, Juliet seems to be seeking an inner peace amidst all the sexual temptations surrounding her. She meets her neighbor, Suzy (Sandra Milo), a showy pleasure-seeker who lives in a sensual playhouse. It appears that all of Juliet's family, friends, and fantasies demand that she loosen up and embrace sexual freedom, yet she remains chaste and dowdy, lamenting over her unfaithful husband. The reasons for Juliet's repression are not clearly defined by the narrative, despite glimpses into her supposed imagination. Forced to endure the constant bombardment of sexually charged imaginings, the demure Juliet retreats on her own. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:12:29 GMTJuliet of the Spirits1965Federico FelliniJuliet of the Spirits is a fantastical showcase for <a href="/players/P____89547/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Federico Fellini</a>'s vibrant imagery, starring his wife, <a href="/players/P____46201/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Giulietta Masina</a>, as the titular leading character. Juliet is a wealthy housewife who constantly fears her husband, Giorgio (Mario Pisu), is cheating on her. While she yearns for a peaceful intimate evening on the night of their 15th anniversary, the egotistical Giorgio has forgotten about it and instead arrives home with his eccentric friends. After a trip to a séance, Juliet is haunted by images from the spirit world, including obsessions from her past involving religion and her late relatives. With her sisters and mother prying into her life, Juliet seems to be seeking an inner peace amidst all the sexual temptations surrounding her. She meets her neighbor, Suzy (<a href="/players/P____49417/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sandra Milo</a>), a showy pleasure-seeker who lives in a sensual playhouse. It appears that all of Juliet's family, friends, and fantasies demand that she loosen up and embrace sexual freedom, yet she remains chaste and dowdy, lamenting over her unfaithful husband. The reasons for Juliet's repression are not clearly defined by the narrative, despite glimpses into her supposed imagination. Forced to endure the constant bombardment of sexually charged imaginings, the demure Juliet retreats on her own. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide10Taggedy Taggged (6-10)10413http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t16669cn4jm.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Juliet_of_the_Spirits/18423/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/11/25/37611.aspx Post By: Karina
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Body: The Criterion Collecton has opened up an online streaming shop, where twenty films can currently be watched online for $5. Your five dollars gives you the right to watch the film as many tines as you like for a week, and for a full year after that they’ll apply a $5 credit to the purchase of that DVD from their online store. Titles available now include Juliet of the Spirits, Cleo From 5 to 7, and Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. Also — and this may be old news, but it’s new to me — Criterion is curating a “festival” of free films every month in partnership with The Auteurs. This month’s festival focuses on “Cruel Stories of Youth,” and includes such films as Sweetie, Ratcatcher, and Fat Girl. More here. Via Fimoculous Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:01:05 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog11/25/2008 11:01:05 AMThe Criterion Collecton has opened up an online streaming shop, where twenty films can currently be watched online for $5. Your five dollars gives you the right to watch the film as many tines as you like for a week, and for a full year after that they’ll apply a $5 credit to the purchase of that DVD from their online store. Titles available now include Juliet of the Spirits, Cleo From 5 to 7, and Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. Also — and this may be old news, but it’s new to me — Criterion is curating a “festival” of free films every month in partnership with The Auteurs. This month’s festival focuses on “Cruel Stories of Youth,” and includes such films as Sweetie, Ratcatcher, and Fat Girl. More here. Via Fimoculous Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/11/25/37610.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: The Criterion Collecton has opened up an online streaming shop, where twenty films can currently be watched online for $5. Your five dollars gives you the right to watch the film as many tines as you like for a week, and for a full year after that they’ll apply a $5 credit to the purchase of that DVD from their online store. Titles available now include Juliet of the Spirits, Cleo From 5 to 7, and Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. Also — and this may be old news, but it’s new to me — Criterion is curating a “festival” of free films every month in partnership with The Auteurs. This month’s festival focuses on “Cruel Stories of Youth,” and includes such films as Sweetie, Ratcatcher, and Fat Girl. More here. Via Fimoculous Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:00:53 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com11/25/2008 11:00:53 AMThe Criterion Collecton has opened up an online streaming shop, where twenty films can currently be watched online for $5. Your five dollars gives you the right to watch the film as many tines as you like for a week, and for a full year after that they’ll apply a $5 credit to the purchase of that DVD from their online store. Titles available now include Juliet of the Spirits, Cleo From 5 to 7, and Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. Also — and this may be old news, but it’s new to me — Criterion is curating a “festival” of free films every month in partnership with The Auteurs. This month’s festival focuses on “Cruel Stories of Youth,” and includes such films as Sweetie, Ratcatcher, and Fat Girl. More here. Via Fimoculous Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemarian/archive/2008/5/14/29128.aspx Post By: CinemaRian
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Body: Juliet of the Spirits is a misfire from a great director. It features some extraordinary sequences and magnificent photography, but in the end, it doesn't add up to anything. The obsensive premise is a sort of quest for meaning, or connection, or something, by Giulietta Boldrini (played by Giulietta Masina, Fellini's wife). The movie alternates between realitivley realistic scenes (by Fellini standards), and surreal sequences meant to show Giulietta's mental state. I think. The film is a sort of cross between Nights of Cabiria and 8 1/2 with the unrelated episodes of the former and the inner mindscapes of the latter. The biggest problem with Juliet of the Spirits is that Fellini tries to have it both ways- he wants to make both a film about a woman becoming indepenant (I think) and an absurdist fantasy. The problem is that Giulietta is never developed enough as a character for us to care about her very much. The psycholgical stuff in the picture is really unfocused. However, the movie is too grounded in reality to work as an absurdist film because goes through the motions of caring about Giulietta's characters. What we are left with is neither here nor there, and neither interesting nor insightful. What the movie really has going for it is the geogrous cinematography. I am not exagerating when I say that if I were teaching a class on color photography, I could take this movie apart shot by shot and show how color works. It's that good. Taken individually, the surreal scenes work as well. They would proably work on their own as a series of avant-garde short subjects. Unfortanley, the movie lacks an appropraite structure to get us to care about them when taken as a whole. Fellini is capable of doing great character studies (I Viteloni) and wonderful comedy (And the Ship Sales On). Putting the two approches together, as he does here, was a mistake. I felt that same way watching this film as I did when I saw Orson Welles' Macbeth- a weak film by a really talented director. Oh well, we all have our off days. Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
]]>Wed, 14 May 2008 05:18:23 GMTCinemaRianCinemaRian Blog5/14/2008 1:18:23 AMJuliet of the Spirits is a misfire from a great director. It features some extraordinary sequences and magnificent photography, but in the end, it doesn't add up to anything. The obsensive premise is a sort of quest for meaning, or connection, or something, by Giulietta Boldrini (played by Giulietta Masina, Fellini's wife). The movie alternates between realitivley realistic scenes (by Fellini standards), and surreal sequences meant to show Giulietta's mental state. I think. The film is a sort of cross between Nights of Cabiria and 8 1/2 with the unrelated episodes of the former and the inner mindscapes of the latter. The biggest problem with Juliet of the Spirits is that Fellini tries to have it both ways- he wants to make both a film about a woman becoming indepenant (I think) and an absurdist fantasy. The problem is that Giulietta is never developed enough as a character for us to care about her very much. The psycholgical stuff in the picture is really unfocused. However, the movie is too grounded in reality to work as an absurdist film because goes through the motions of caring about Giulietta's characters. What we are left with is neither here nor there, and neither interesting nor insightful. What the movie really has going for it is the geogrous cinematography. I am not exagerating when I say that if I were teaching a class on color photography, I could take this movie apart shot by shot and show how color works. It's that good. Taken individually, the surreal scenes work as well. They would proably work on their own as a series of avant-garde short subjects. Unfortanley, the movie lacks an appropraite structure to get us to care about them when taken as a whole. Fellini is capable of doing great character studies (I Viteloni) and wonderful comedy (And the Ship Sales On). Putting the two approches together, as he does here, was a mistake. I felt that same way watching this film as I did when I saw Orson Welles' Macbeth- a weak film by a really talented director. Oh well, we all have our off days. Juliet of the Spirits (1965) http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmspotting/Re_Top_5_Character_Introductions/304/8576/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: alexcharner
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Body: I love that entrance. Great choice, Paul.I also love Giulietta Massina's entrance in Juliet of the Spirits http://www.spout.com/films/18423/default.aspx. She's shot from many angles, but Fellini consciously holds your intrigue for some time before you see her face.
]]>Fri, 11 May 2007 18:21:06 GMTalexcharnerFilmspotting5/11/2007 2:21:06 PMI love that entrance. Great choice, Paul.I also love Giulietta Massina&#39;s entrance in Juliet of the Spirits http://www.spout.com/films/18423/default.aspx. She&#39;s shot from many angles, but Fellini consciously holds your intrigue for some time before you see her face. http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2007/4/12/6942.aspx Post By: quint
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Body: Wolfgang's vault has a number of movie posters from the sixties for sale here. expensive, but cool to look at.
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