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In reading about Fellini's film 8 1/2, I thought of Francis Ford Coppola's new film "Megalopolis" which the NY Times described as a "bursting-at-the-seams hallucination of a movie—it's wonderfully out there." Coppola is a fan of Fellini, but I don't know if Megalopolis will stand out the way 8 1/2 did. I think audiences today, marinating in the quick dopamine hits of short and mostly shallow social media distractions, lack the patience or focus for post modernist kinds of sprawling and eclectic stories/films. But maybe I'm wrong?

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…sounds worth watching…8 1/2 was transformative for my brain when i watched it two decades (and two weeks ago)…interestingly enough just saw I SAW THE TV GLOW and it inspired me to write and make about it…big rec in similar yet different ethers in that it is a movie about watching (ala rear window but way way different)…great article man…

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