Directed by Federico Fellini; screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tulilo Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi; cinematography by Gianni di Venanzo; edited by Ruggero Mastrolanni; production and costume design by Piero Gherardi; starring Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisuand Sylva Koscina. Color, 137 mins....

George Plimpton's The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair and Other Excursions and Observations (Random House, $24.95) is being released a year after the author's death, and, like many other posthumous collections, it includes both very strong segments and weaker ones. A piece titled...

Last week, I did something incredibly rash and intrepid. My actions backfired horribly, and my life will never be the same.Impulsively, and without consulting my husband Jonathan, I bought us two tickets to see Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words. "Surprise! We're off to B.A.M. tonight!"...

[Juliet of the Spirits] is specious and hollow, in addition to being very boring; and its failures bring into focus what has been bothering me about Fellini's more celebrated successes: they are indebted less to true perception than to carnival showmanship…. In La Dolce Vita Fellini revealed himself to be deeply attracted by the very things he was pretending to ridicule or expose (upper-class orgies, intellectual parties, Catholic ritual and pageantry, Anika Ekberg's chest); and in �...

[Taken by themselves the] reels of dazzling visual images [in Giulietta degli Spiriti] may well come to seem gratuitous and even tiresome. A terribly earnest and pathetically ingenuous wife makes her psychological journey through facts and hallucinations in sequences of astonishing exoticism. The scenes are often not so much in color as coloristic, and the settings, both actual and hallucinated—with no particularly insistent demarcation—are not so much extravagant as extravaganza-ed. Virtually...