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	Wellington Film Society - I VITELLONI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is with I VITELLONI (U.K.: Spivs) the next year and La Strada in 1954 that Fellini really arrived at full maturity and mastery of his medium.
		Vitelloni are drifters, layabouts and the group of young men whose life in a small provincial town is so vividly, lovingly evoked are precisely that.
		This is, indeed, a characteristic of nearly all Fellini's films: time is appreciated as something within the characters' or the maker's head, which may speed by in a swirl and swagger of baroque effect or slow almost to a stop, entirely depending on mood and the emotional structure of the film.
	filmsociety.wellington.net.nz /db/screeningdetail.php?id=288&sy=1999 (356 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - I Vitelloni: Criterion Collection
		La Strada, is widely seen as the beginning of his unique style, the first time the visual idiosyncrasies and thematic preoccupations that would characterize his best and most famous work congealed in a single film.
		In I Vitelloni, the ugly tangle of the mother/lover dynamic is played out most explicitly in Fausto's attraction to and flirtation with the wife of Mr.
		I Vitelloni may fall just outside of Fellini's strongest period of filmmaking, from 1954's La Strada to 1963's 8 1/2, but it's a damned fine film and provides useful artistic context for his later masterpieces.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/ivitelloni.php (1848 words)

	BBC - Films - I Vitelloni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Literally translated, the "Vitelloni" are overgrown calves, which is a pretty accurate description of the heroes of Fellini's flly comic melodrama about (not) growing up.
		Rich with incident and centred around a scathing attack on the post-war generation, I Vitelloni is proof of Fellini's early genius as a storyteller.
		It's also proof of his desire to avoid the romantically attractive but ultimately pointless role of being a vitelloni himself: he crafted a film of such warmth and humanity that he would be guaranteed international recognition.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/06/10/i_vitelloni_2004_review.shtml (371 words)

	DVD Talk Review: I Vitelloni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As much as I Vitelloni is a poetic film where emotions often run rampant the film is also very much a sober look at Italy and the social problems the country faced in the early 1950s.
		What separates I Vitelloni from everything else the Maestro had filmed prior to its release in 1953 is the strikingly mature approach of a director that has captured the essence of a certainly uneasy era from Italy's political and social life.
		I Vitelloni is presented in its OAR of 1.33:1 (Black/White).
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=17748 (932 words)

	filmjourney.org : I Vitelloni, neorealism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Like Fellini's own childhood, it is set in the provinces and deals with four 20-something loafers, or vitellones, who collectively find they cannot continue living in the whimsical, self-absorbed, carousing manner of their youth, harboring the same illusions, and that life through such a lense is simply a mask keeping them from genuine self-reflection.
		I Vitelloni was Fellini's first internationally distributed film, and it's easy to see why: he smoothly transitions between its two thematic realms, creating a vivid portrait of a universally meaningful stage of human development that requires permanent personal reckonings, and Nino Rota's elegiac score gracefully intensifies its mood.
		Although the society the film describes is peripheral to its focus, the movie's simultaneously critical and compassionate attention toward its characters is rendered with the same clarity and passion for truth as the neorealist films that preceded it.
	filmjourney.weblogger.com /2004/04/02 (838 words)

	I Vitelloni (1953)
		Now, while one can draw a straight line from I Vitelloni to such later films as Mean Streets, The Wanderers, and Swingers, it's not passion that is the common bound of all the groups of friends in these movies—it's indolence.
		The leader of the group is Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), vain, charming, handsome, and the womanizer in the group.
		He no doubt knew vitelloni and maybe even admired them from afar—they may be immature, but they're also cool—but he was never one himself.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=4857&buy=closed&PID=10114751&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (923 words)

	Vitelloni, I (1953) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Somewhere on his way from neo- to sur-, young Federico Fellini had made a "I Vitelloni" (1953), lighthearted, unconventional, bold, and above all entertaining film that tells the story of hopes and miseries of four friends, four young men, "I Vitelloni" in a small seashore province town.
		I think of "I Vitelloni" as more realistic and sober "Amarcord" in B/W. One of scenes was absolutely stunning -the carnival - the music, the dancing, the camera's rapid but fluid movements - simply breathtaking.
		It is without doubt that Fellini influenced a lot of directors, and there are similarities between "I Vitelloni" and George Lucas' "American Graffiti" and Barry Levinson's "Diner".
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0046521 (419 words)

	I Vitelloni - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Federico Fellini's neglected treasure "I Vitelloni" (1953) exemplifies the Italian cinema in transition.
		"I Vitelloni" is a joy to (re-)discover partly because it anticipates several Fellini masterpieces and of mid-20th century Italy in its depiction of Italian provincial life, of tempers and tears and of a respect for parental authority that overrides all else.
		The young men at the center of the film may be aimless, but they're part of volatile, loving families and tightly entwined societies with a decorum that has a purely Mediterranean feel.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_187049.html (464 words)

	i Vitelloni
		But it’s undeniable that Fellini is a major talent, and he made some of the most memorable and creative films of the 1950s and 1960s.
		"I Vitelloni" is not one of his very best films, but it is a key film in his early development.
		The word "vitelloni" means young calves and it refers to the sometimes-oafish animalistic behavior of the boys.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/I/i_vitelloni.htm (425 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| I Vitelloni
		I Vitelloni (the best sense of it is “the idlers”), Fellini’s third film, includes some of his most subtle filmmaking and most personal material.
		Paradoxically, I Vitelloni is also an insightful and accurate representation of Italy in the immediate postwar period, full of references to the massive social changes underway.
		The five vitelloni are provincial archetypes, the outside world primarily the source of sexual and heroic fictions — as when they imagine a Hemingway-style safari with Esther Williams.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /41/vitel.htm (978 words)

	Festa Fellini - I VITELLONI
		I Vitelloni were the slackers, dreaming their lives away in a small Italian village, that Fellini loved and understood so well.
		The final film in Fellini’s "Trilogy of Illusion" (prints of The White Sheik and Variety Lights were not available for this series) deals with maturity: The maturity of the five characters that Fellini portrays and of Fellini himself as filmmaker.
		I Vitelloni was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
	www.laemmle.com /series/fellini03/i.html (82 words)

	DVD Times - I Vitelloni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The young boy who Moraldo befriends in I Vitelloni also serves a similar function to the young girl at the end of La Dolce Vita, here representing an innocence lost, a youth that must be left behind and the opportunity to be born again to a new way of living.
		Fellini shows the purity of these characters in all their glory, but shows life in the provinces for what it is and what it can do to all those hopes, talents and dreams, all of them destined to slowly age and fade in the closed and suffocating environment they live in.
		I Vitelloni is a wonderful film, full of all the neorealist themes that characterise the best Fellini films of the period - The White Sheik, La Strada, Nights of Cabiria - and it is one of the essential building blocks that would lead to Fellini’s first masterpiece, La Dolce Vita.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=58042 (2011 words)

	notcoming.com \| I Vitelloni
		Responsibility is in the vocabulary of maturation, and the vitelloni believe it is a trait that may be assumed if not avoided entirely.
		I Vitelloni is the first of Fellini’s films to include his trademark characterization: the privileged and cheerless male, speculatively one modeled after his own appearance and class and one exemplified in the roles acted by Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2.
		I Vitelloni, however, is not replete with the embellished periods of fantasy Fellini is perhaps best renowned for.
	notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=272 (550 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Review - I Vitelloni
		"Vitelloni" is regional Italian dialect that literally means "calf," but is often used to refer to young punks.
		In "I Vitelloni, Fellini begins to be concerned with a major theme, which would crop up in his later films, such as the metaphor of everyday life as a social circus.
		For the most part, "I Vitelloni" it is a typical neo-realist film of its era.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=548 (328 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: I Vitelloni Review
		What remains so staggering about I Vitelloni within Fellini's pantheon is that while the majority of his works point toward what could be (or what could have been); I Vitelloni plainly shows us what was.
		In peeking back at the lifestyles Fellini knew from childhood and his own blossoming adolescence, he gives us a deft perspective into the endearing commonality of the contemporary Italian man, and why - for one reason or another - he would never be able to fully participate in it.
		Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1, this transfer of I Vitelloni is similar in quality to the treatment Criterion afforded Fellini's The White Sheik the previous year.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_11/ivitelloni.html (574 words)

	Program Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I Vitelloni's attitude informs an American "new wave" movie like Sidney Lumet's Bye Bye Braverman, but it came into its own as an influence with Mean Streets, American Graffiti, and especially Diner; descendants could legitimately include Seinfeld.
		Like most Fellini films, I Vitelloni is best taken as a succession of set pieces—the sudden storm that wreaks confusion on a boardwalk beauty pageant—and interpolated variety acts.
		The works that followed from 1953 to 1956, from I Vitelloni to Le Notti di Cabiria, were to develop further...[an] esoteric appeal to the unconscious and...a baroque form of expression all his own.
	www.ammi.org /film_programs/program_notes/v/vitelloni.html (835 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: I Vitelloni: The Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The father is Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), the ladykiller of the vitelloni, and, rather than honorably face his dishonorable parental obligations, he endeavors to run.
		Meanwhile, Leopoldo is eventually presented with an opportunity to hand his play off to a legendary Italian actor passing through town, only to discover, horrified, that the old man's interest in his work is less ardent than his interest in him sexually.
		Finally, I Vitelloni is Fellini's putting away of childish things through a phenomenon observed rather than experienced, and its slight coldness (despite it being the warmest of his works) presages the cultured, cynical, better Fellini to come.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/v/vitelloni_cc.q.shtml (939 words)

	Metromix. Movie review: 'I Vitelloni'
		"I Vitelloni," one of the screen's great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men in their 20s, hit Italy like a comic thunderbolt when it was released there in 1953 - and it struck the American art-house audience in much the same way when it premiered here in 1956.
		The "vitelloni" (the title means "big calves" or "slobs") keep playing at games and failing at life.
		From 1956, when both "I Vitelloni" and "La Strada" were released here to huge critical acclaim, Fellini has been the Italian movie name to reckon with.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-040219-movies-review-mw-ivitelloni,0,5251383.story?coll=mmx-movies_top_heds (848 words)

	Fellini's unfanciful `I Vitelloni' ages well - The Boston Globe
		Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni" may have just turned 50, but its story of men who refuse to relinquish their adolescence is one of cinema's most enduring.
		However, "I Vitelloni," which has been restored and re-subtitled in a delicious fl-and-white print, precedes the artist's Technicolor psychosexual dream weaving.
		Largely episodic, "I Vitelloni" opens with a nighttime beauty pageant that ends in a thunderstorm.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2004/01/02/fellinis_unfanciful_i_vitelloni_ages_well (709 words)

	I Vitelloni - Criterion Collection DVD Review
		Federico Fellini's breakthrough film, the 1953 I Vitelloni, is one of the cinema's seminal stories about slacker males, and a highly entertaining one at that.
		I Vitelloni clicked with international audiences and remains an obvious influence on such later classics as Breaking Away and Diner.
		The ensemble comedy follows the ever-diminishing fortunes of five young men who can't define, let alone jump-start, their dreams, particularly the caddish Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), who thinks nothing of molesting the wife of his father-in-law's best friend.
	www.dvdsense.com /item/B0002DB4YQ (821 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'I Vitelloni'
		Fellini's first two films as a director, "Variety Lights" (1950), which he co-directed with Alberto Lattuada, and "The White Sheik" (1952), are comic delights, but it was this ineffably poignant semiautobiographical reverie that unleashed fully Fellini's shimmering, flowing poetic style, echoed perfectly in a plaintive score by Fellini's potently evocative collaborator, Nino Rota.
		The passing of 15 years between his departure and his making of "I Vitelloni" was crucial to the compassion and detachment with which he views the five layabouts of his film's title, fast friends who are turning 30 yet who are still living at home and still unemployed, indulged by their provincial bourgeois families.
		Possessed of varying degrees of self-awareness, all five are bored and frustrated and talk about leaving town, but their inclination to indolence is reinforced not just by their cosseting families but also by the obvious truth: As charming as seaside Rimini is, nothing much is going on.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-thomas26mar26,2,7257417.story (667 words)

	I Vitelloni - DVD Movie Central
		While we still appreciate the imagination and chutzpah that went into pictures like Satyricon or Roma, we still regard them as movies with spirit but whose hearts were crushed under the weight of their excesses.
		No matter which side you’re on, you could easily argue that I Vitelloni is the least Fellini-esque film the maestro offered, which is why it either stands out as one of his greatest triumphs or one of his frowning disappointments.
		I Vitelloni may not be every Fellini fan’s cup of tea, but I dare say it’s one of the maestro’s best and purest offerings.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/i_vitelloni.htm (1047 words)

	DVD Savant Review: I Vitelloni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I Vitelloni is an excellent show by any standard, a drama about a basic situation that will make many a young man squirm.
		I Vitelloni is no forced tragedy or an allegory for anything the way some of Fellini's early classics are.
		Criterion's DVD of I Vitelloni is a handsome presentation of the film beautifully restored and transferred - I have to admit that the 16mm prints shown back in college were so poor, I walked out.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1325vite.html (1124 words)

	MDIVitelloni
		Fellini’s second film was The White Sheik, a parody of celebrity worship, and his third was I Vitelloni, his first film to garner widespread critical acclaim, as well as international distribution.
		I Vitelloni translated as “overgrown calves,” a slang expression applied to loafing young men financially supported by their families (Fellini said he’d been called a vitelloni) or may be a variation on vaudellone, “big gut” referring to someone who would rather eat than work.
		Fellini said, “I Vitelloni is the story of adolescents who cannot see anything more in life than satisfying their animal desires—sleeping, eating, fornicating.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDIVitelloni.htm (1293 words)

	dOc DVD Review: I Vitelloni (1953)
		It seems like a cinematic corollary to the ironclad rule of demographics (every year, every member of the population gets one year older) that as long as young people are coming of age, there will be a steady stream of coming-of-age movies.
		Their quality will inevitably vary, and few if any will be as good as I Vitelloni, an early Fellini film in which you can feel the director galloping toward his mature style.
		But this is no museum piece, and is likely to strike the same emotional cords in a 21st-century audience that it did a half century ago, at its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=6341 (977 words)

	Outpost.com \| Criterion Collection-DVD
		A thinly veiled memoir by this most autobiographical of filmmakers, I Vitelloni follows the meanderings of a group of five friends -- the titular vitelloni, or layabouts -- who linger in an adolescent limbo in their parochial seaside town.
		From the cozily recognizable strains of Nino Rota's score to the festive mise-en-scene, I Vitelloni is unmistakably Fellini-esque.
		Generous and ultimately heart-breaking, I Vitelloni may well be the most big-hearted of the Italian master's movies.
	www.outpost.com /product/4140563 (567 words)

	I Vitelloni (2003) - MovieWeb
		The five vitelloni are first seen marching through the streets.
		While they are away honeymooning, the other vitelloni roam around town, shooting pool and chasing women.
		Fausto eventually finds her and declares himself a changed man. In the closing scene, Moraldo leaves town in search of a better life in the middle of the night.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/43/1743/summary.php (251 words)

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