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Fellini - Satyricon (1969)
Before Christ After La Dolce Vita
Satyricon based by the book of Titus Petronius from the neronian era in the middle of the first century. This was Fellini tenth film in that time when he was the most acknowledged director in the European cinema. And it was his first when he little showed interest for the legatee storytelling but his visual genius glittered in his full splendor. The brilliant cinematographer, Giuseppe Rotunno (The Leopard) and Fellini made one of the most beautiful color film ever. The settings, lights and color with the sets and costumes creates an astonishing atmosphere. But the most important part of Satyricon are the strange, grotesque, frightening but sometimes beautiful faces and bodies. Just a few films (The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Name of the Rose) can be resembled in the human face representation. The most beautiful scene is the suicide of the roman patrician. The worst thing is the horrible post-synchronization. Strange, that Nino Rota wrote a beautiful main theme for Satyricon, but it never heard in the movie. 3,5/4
King of Kings (1961)
Directed by Miklós Rózsa
One of the most beautiful cinematography with heartbreaking score by Miklos Rozsa, filmed in fascinating Spanish locations, operatic choreography and narration by Orson Welles. The real author of this movie is not the great Nicholas Ray or the pretentious producer, Samuel Bronston, but the celebrated Hungarian composer Milkós Rózsa, who wrote his most memorable musics around 1960, (A Time to Love and a Time to Die, El Cid, Sodom and Gomorrah and specially Ben-Hur) but this is his perfectly best. Marvellous colors and settings illustrate the music, what like an opera, is able to tell the complete story without help. We have some feelings, the music was ready before the shooting began (like in Once Upon a Time in the West), but it was adjusted to it in the editing room (often modifying the original concept). A wonderful Jesus movie from the end of the studio system.