The New Stars of Photography | Photos. Federico Fellini: 8 1/2 | Film. At least half of all film-makers asked about the directors they most admire include Federico Fellini in their top three. And he seems to have a particular fascination for purely commercial directors - perhaps because his was the cinema of visually expressed emotions rather than intellectual rigour. He was indeed a great director. But there's a kind of critical resistance to his work that once caused him to write to me (I was then deputy film critic for the Guardian) to ask if there was anything I could do about the carping notices that invariably flowed from the pen of Richard Roud, my predecessor. There was not. But I have to confess that the longer he worked, the more I doubted Fellini. In fact, my favourite of his films has always been his first - Variety Lights, which he co-directed with Alberto Lattuada way back in 1950. Its title refers to the fact that, up to then, Fellini had made seven features and two episodes in composite films that added up to about a half.
Useful sites: Beautiful Color Photographs of Picasso Painting with Light. Rie Munoz Gallery. Andrew Wyeth. Mary Azarian Woodcut Printmaker - Vermont.