Great article from The Quietus about the italian director.
"For Slavoj Zizek, "Cinema is the ultimate pervert art - it doesn't give you what you want, it tells you what to desire." Yet Zizek claims to have little time for Fellini, insisting that his films "no longer function today. They are so flatly pretentious." There is a kind of willful half-ignorance towards Fellini on the part of today's film fans which places him in the curious position of being both wildly over-rated and, simultaneously, tragically under-rated. Everyone is at some point told that Fellini is this great master, and dutifully they all file off to see La Dolce Vita. At the end of the film, everyone thinks, well, that was quite cool, I suppose, a bit boring, but I can't really see what the fuss is about, and thus learns to pride themselves on having exploded this great sacred cow of classical film studies. In this glib, overhasty dismissal, the young cineaste both saves himself the effort of actually engaging with Fellini's stranger work and flatters himself as an anti-canonical nonconformist in the process, learning instead to lionize the more officially sanctioned weirdness of Jodorowsky and Lynch (neither of whom are really half as radical or peculiar as Fellini himself)."
Read the full article here.
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