Olivia Laing
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Aug
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So there's that sense that Fellini's competing with everybody, whereas Pasolini respects the people he works with.
And then the final thing, I think, is Pasolini is intensely political, especially at this mid-'70s period, where he is at the height of his political engagement in terms of communicating about fascism and anti-fascism.
He's writing a lot.
His films are really not a vehicle for that, but a way of thinking about that.
And Fellini, on the other hand, is interrogating the landscape of dreams.
He's a Freudian to his core, and his cinematic project was very dope.
It's such a, it's such a,
Sort of sad story, Donald Sutherland in this book.
And by the way, he died just before I started writing it.
And I was really aware, I don't think I could have written it while he was still alive.
Not that I think he would have minded, but there was something about engaging with that sort of humiliating process that kind of required the person not to still be there.
So this is Donald Sutherland, one of the greatest actors of all time, I think.
At the greatest period in his career, he's making Clute, he's making Don't Look Now.
He's just absolutely at the pinnacle of his perfection.
He is an incredibly cerebral, technical actor.
He's a very brainy intellectual.
When he turned up on the set of Novichento, he brought the complete works of Wilhelm Reich with him.
At least she was like...
No, please put those down.
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