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Martin Scorsese’s recent essay on Federico Fellini makes a very important point about what cinema is
FirstpostGiven his essays for mainstream publications, Martin Scorsese hasn’t been a happy man for a while. And now, in an exquisite piece on Federico Fellini in the March issue of Harper’s magazine and “the lost magic of cinema”, he reiterates the point. But I feel there is the need to separate a well-made “product” from “cinema”, and Scorsese defines this well : What’s essential to “cinema” is the unifying vision of an individual artist. Here’s what Scorsese says about 8½: “Fellini made a film about film that could only exist as a film and nothing else—not a piece of music, not a novel, not a poem, not a dance, only as a work of cinema.” PS Vinothraj’s Pebbles, which won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam: now that’s cinema. As Scorsese says: “The cinema has always been much more than content, and it always will be…” And that’s what this is about.
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