The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, February 17-23
Courtesy Film Forum via Photofest.
City of Women (1980)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Fellini made La città delle donne in 1980, once again returning to The Woman Question. Here, Marcello Mastroianni (aging well) is Snàporaz, a middle-aged Federico stand-in who follows a femme from a train, and is drawn into a series of fantastic encounters: with big and small women, old and young women, women in torch-bearing mobs and women alone, at the ends of long hallways. Between one lady who turns out to be a hot-air balloon and another who’s only a marble Mommy bust, a lot of lively flesh cavorts—but Fellini cares little for satirizing second-wave feminism, teen drug culture, or the machismo of a guy named Dr. Superdick. His true quest is still for pleasure—discovered in moments like the thunder of a train, the sunlight in a field. Elina Mishuris (February 19-25 at Film Forum; showtimes daily)
