I watched La Strada in my freshman year in college 1966. The university theatre charged ten cents! I paid next to nothing to see one of the most powerful, unforgettable, compelling & frightening films ever. One watches in horror as the brutality & abuse continue, yet it’s impossible to turn away. Absolutely amazing, both the movie and the emotions one feels while moving forward thru it. .
That very last moment, on the beach, at the end of LA STRADA: here Zampano, all by himself..suddenly sees where he is..and how completely alone he is. Shattering, and for me, an amazing moment as a film goer...
I thought of Chaplin the first time I saw Giulietta and was surprised to see everyone else saw same thing. Cabiria is my fav but love la Strada too. My dad resembled Marcello as a young man so he will always hold a special place. No one comes close to Nino Rota.
8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita are more visually impressive than La Strada but I would say overall La Strada is probably Fellini's best film. Therefore it's probably one of the 10 greatest films ever made.
That is exactly my opinion, because La Strada is an universal movie, it tells us a story of love, struggle, meaning of life, sacrifice, loneliness, discrimination. 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita talk too much instead of showing. When filmmakers let characters talk too much i think they lose the correct perspective and become pretentious, pretending to teach the audience. Cinema is not literature, it is mainly a visual art and should stick to what it is, tell stories without trying to educate the audience. It could seem strange but i put "La strada" togheter with "Forrest Gump", "Everything Everywere All At Once" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", because these four movies are history the best examples in the movie of universal movies, facing the main issues of human's life. Both finding a solution in a single word: LOVE.
@@brandedtotroll9153 nope, i do not like pretentious movies who pretend to teach audience. My top four movies (i have to add one which i forgot) are: "La Strada", "Forrest Gump", "Everything Everywere All At Once" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", which in my opinion are the four "universal" movies in movie history. By "universal" I mean movies who face the real, most important issues of human life, telling stories in a visual way, as a movie should be. With not too much words, without pretending to teach or give solutions. Telling beautiful stories from an human point of view and not from God's point of view. When the filmmaker assumes "God perspective" we are in a big trouble. "Everything Everywere All At Once" , towards which i am really enthousiastic (it is the only movie i saw three times in a row), is in some sense and probably in the intention of the Daniels, the final syntesis of all movies history and of the other three movies. It is sort of an hyper-movie. Unbeliavable.
No it's obviously not his best film. It lacks the virtuosity and depth of a number of his other works - such as La Dolce Vita, or Nights of Cabiria. Although, it is one of his most charming and beautiful films as it is really more of a fable.
I saw this movie on TV when I was about 7 years old...about 1957. I couldn't stop watching it. I knew it was different from anything I had ever seen.... Zampano scared the heck out of me. I always stayed away from Zampano's in my life.
Martin is a great intellectual, before being a good Director; the influences of "La strada" on his "Raging bull" are apparent: LaMotta destroys his emotional life as Zampano' does ...
One of my favourite films of all time, I discovered in a Film History course I took many years ago, and was completely enthralled and moved to the point of tears by the end of the film. I came across this video, Martin Scorcese on La Strada, interestingly enough because I'm so curious as to what Robert DeNiro's opinions and take on the film may be, presuming of course he has seen the film, for whatever reason I can't imagine he hasn't. The internal character struggle shares many similarities with that of his role in Raging Bull.
Martin Scorsese opened my eyes on one aspect of La Strada which I never thought about: the "fransiscan" aspect of the movie! If you know anything about St. Francis of Assisi, you'll understand! This is where the compassion in the film takes a special meaning. And btw, did you notice how Scorsese pronounces Zampanó?
English speaking people seem to have some trouble pronouncing words with accents in the Italian language. A good example is how they pronounce the island of Capri: "Caprí" accentuating the final vowel. With Zampanó however they tend to do the opposite like Scorsese does in this interview.
When I first watched La Strada I was a child and I didn't like the movie at all : not only did I find Gelsomina stupid but I wouldn't understand how she could stay with such a brutal man, to me such a submission was absolutely revolting. More than ten years later I watched it for the second time and it moved me much more. Now I intend to watch it with my children, and I hope Martin Scorsese's clever analysis will help me to understand the main aspects and to explain them to my children.
Did you end up watching the film with your children? I would recommend you don't. My father made my brother and I watch this film with him, we were too young to understand the complexity of the film and it even kind of traumatized us, until this day I don't understand why we watched this at such a young age. I will watch it again now that I am 26 years old, but watching this at 8 and 9 years old was simply not logical in my opinion. No child will totally understand the message of the movie.
When I saw the film on TV in the late 80's I identified with the Fool because I had had a compulsion of making fun of somebody who could get violent and thought nobody else did until I saw the film.
Some critic said Masini overacted and hammed it up. She answered "What can I do with this crazy face of mine? I just smile a little or wink and its like an earthquake.
To be honest I’m not that interested in Scorsese’s own movies as I don’t tend to feel much resonance with them, but I am very impressed with how he talks here of Fellini and La Strada here with such sensitivity and insight.
It is a beautiful film, but it is hard to argue that it is Fellini's masterpiece or the only must see. Nights of Cabiria is a more mature and far greater exploration of similar themes - not to mention his actual masterpiece, La dolce Vita - by which I mean that Scorsese barely mentions it, as though it were one you could skip.
I only knew of this movie because at my first grade there was a poster titled for a local stage play called "La strada" It was then i had just learned to read so i read every sign and poster etc i could find and then i memorised it and it said "Loosely based on the movie of the same name" that is the only lines i can still remember The name stayed with me and one day i looked it up and i remember hearing people talking about how it was one of the best movies they had ever seen etc One day i found a DVD on sale online and watched it Wow I may have been around 17 at the time but ... Wow it remained with me ever since and i remember the feelings i had was kinda difficult to describe but i think it was the first time i ever was genuinely touched by a movie I started looking up all other Giuelietta Masina roles i could but only "Nights of Cabiria" came close to "La strada" for me and it didn't even come that close to La Strada Feillinis other movies was too surreal and at times weird for me But La Strada will always have a special place in my heart
Thanks, yes, love it so. One of 3 movies that start me crying just talking/thinking about it. (The other 2 are Madame Rosa, Million Dollar Baby) I would be interested to hear Mr Scorsese describe why he doesn't like circus
There are no un-dubbed version of La Strada. In both versions we hear at least two characters speaking in their native voice. IMO the "English" voice of Gelsomina is very,very good. Of course a person fluent in both English and Italian might prefer the Italian one. And I do agree with Scorsese about Zampano...an uneducated,unsophisticated man who,we find at the end,was not totally devoid of decency
I prefer the Italian w subtitles. I speak some Italian and he's right there are some amusing things said that don't translate. I think hearing Gelsomina's real voice is important. Is AQ speaking Italian?
@@stj971 I speak one word of Italian.And of course something's lost with dubbing...tones of voice,little jokes,etc. IMO Gelsomina and The Fool were the most important characters and in hearing either of them dubbed you're losing something. No it was AQ's real voice (English) that was heard in the "English" version.
La Strada is phenomenal. Giuletta Masina gives one of the best acting performances I’ve ever seen and she does much of it with her sadly smiling face.
ahh "sadly smiling face" what a way to describe it !!!
Check out Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown” for a similar performance by Samantha Morton.
She deserved an Oscar.
I adore Giulietta Masina in this film. She was wonderful.
Giuletta Messina and Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara) are two actors whom I can't take my eyes off of, even if they are in the background, doing nothing.
La Strada is one of the greatest films ever made! It is a masterpiece.
I could spend all day watching Scorsese talk about movies.
For real, I need more
He should talk about every Fellini film ever. Love how he analyses La Strada here.
Me too
We are so lucky to have Scorsese, a great film maker and an educator of art in general and film in particular. He’s a rare and indispensable American.
Idiot, it's Fellini who wrote/directed it !
I feel sadness whenever I hear the music score. What a touching movie.
I watched La Strada in my freshman year in college 1966. The university theatre charged ten cents! I paid next to nothing to see one of the most powerful, unforgettable, compelling & frightening films ever. One watches in horror as the brutality & abuse continue, yet it’s impossible to turn away. Absolutely amazing, both the movie and the emotions one feels while moving forward thru it.
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That very last moment, on the beach, at the end of LA STRADA: here Zampano, all by himself..suddenly sees where he is..and how completely alone he is. Shattering, and for me, an amazing moment as a film goer...
La Strada and Nights of Cabiria are definitely my favorite Fellini films. Love the comparison between Guilietta Masina and Charlie Chaplin.
I can't remember his exact words, but Chaplin greatly admire Giulietta Masina.
@@filmbuff2777 Really? Wow, that's awesome!
I thought of Chaplin the first time I saw Giulietta and was surprised to see everyone else saw same thing. Cabiria is my fav but love la Strada too. My dad resembled Marcello as a young man so he will always hold a special place. No one comes close to Nino Rota.
8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita are more visually impressive than La Strada but I would say overall La Strada is probably Fellini's best film. Therefore it's probably one of the 10 greatest films ever made.
top three, in fact, in my opinion.
@@rcafiero What are your top three? Mine are Sansho The Bailiff, Citizen Kane and Awara(Raj Kapoor).
That is exactly my opinion, because La Strada is an universal movie, it tells us a story of love, struggle, meaning of life, sacrifice, loneliness, discrimination. 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita talk too much instead of showing. When filmmakers let characters talk too much i think they lose the correct perspective and become pretentious, pretending to teach the audience. Cinema is not literature, it is mainly a visual art and should stick to what it is, tell stories without trying to educate the audience. It could seem strange but i put "La strada" togheter with "Forrest Gump", "Everything Everywere All At Once" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", because these four movies are history the best examples in the movie of universal movies, facing the main issues of human's life. Both finding a solution in a single word: LOVE.
@@brandedtotroll9153 nope, i do not like pretentious movies who pretend to teach audience. My top four movies (i have to add one which i forgot) are: "La Strada", "Forrest Gump", "Everything Everywere All At Once" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", which in my opinion are the four "universal" movies in movie history. By "universal" I mean movies who face the real, most important issues of human life, telling stories in a visual way, as a movie should be. With not too much words, without pretending to teach or give solutions. Telling beautiful stories from an human point of view and not from God's point of view. When the filmmaker assumes "God perspective" we are in a big trouble. "Everything Everywere All At Once" , towards which i am really enthousiastic (it is the only movie i saw three times in a row), is in some sense and probably in the intention of the Daniels, the final syntesis of all movies history and of the other three movies. It is sort of an hyper-movie. Unbeliavable.
No it's obviously not his best film. It lacks the virtuosity and depth of a number of his other works - such as La Dolce Vita, or Nights of Cabiria. Although, it is one of his most charming and beautiful films as it is really more of a fable.
I saw this movie on TV when I was about 7 years old...about 1957. I couldn't stop watching it. I knew it was different from anything I had ever seen.... Zampano scared the heck out of me. I always stayed away from Zampano's in my life.
Martin is a great intellectual, before being a good Director;
the influences of "La strada" on his "Raging bull" are apparent:
LaMotta destroys his emotional life as Zampano' does ...
My favourite Fellini film. I love what Scorsese talks about here.
The movie hooked me in from the opening scene. One of those films I just lost myself watching mesmerized
One of my favourite films of all time, I discovered in a Film History course I took many years ago, and was completely enthralled and moved to the point of tears by the end of the film.
I came across this video, Martin Scorcese on La Strada, interestingly enough because I'm so curious as to what Robert DeNiro's opinions and take on the film may be, presuming of course he has seen the film, for whatever reason I can't imagine he hasn't. The internal character struggle shares many similarities with that of his role in Raging Bull.
Martin Scorsese opened my eyes on one aspect of La Strada which I never thought about: the "fransiscan" aspect of the movie! If you know anything about St. Francis of Assisi, you'll understand! This is where the compassion in the film takes a special meaning. And btw, did you notice how Scorsese pronounces Zampanó?
English speaking people seem to have some trouble pronouncing words with accents in the Italian language. A good example is how they pronounce the island of Capri: "Caprí" accentuating the final vowel.
With Zampanó however they tend to do the opposite like Scorsese does in this interview.
When I first watched La Strada I was a child and I didn't like the movie at all : not only did I find Gelsomina stupid but I wouldn't understand how she could stay with such a brutal man, to me such a submission was absolutely revolting.
More than ten years later I watched it for the second time and it moved me much more. Now I intend to watch it with my children, and I hope Martin Scorsese's clever analysis will help me to understand the main aspects and to explain them to my children.
Did you end up watching the film with your children? I would recommend you don't. My father made my brother and I watch this film with him, we were too young to understand the complexity of the film and it even kind of traumatized us, until this day I don't understand why we watched this at such a young age.
I will watch it again now that I am 26 years old, but watching this at 8 and 9 years old was simply not logical in my opinion. No child will totally understand the message of the movie.
Film is literature,
Cinematography, editing and acting is the poetry...
La Strada is a great film.
I also saw these films out of WOR in New York...
this is beautiful!
When I saw the film on TV in the late 80's I identified with the Fool because I had had a compulsion of making fun of somebody who could get violent and thought nobody else did until I saw the film.
Thank you for sharing this.
Great film!
lovely interpretation of la strada!
One of my all time favorite movies. It's such a beautiful dream ❤
I remember seing La Strada on TV as a kid, and bawling my eyes out.
Little known fact La Strada inspired the song Me and Bobby McGee.
Well Kris Kristofferson was a beast.
Anthony Quinn a Mexican pride 🦅🇲🇽💪
Just rewatched the film recently loved it. A great film truly great.
Some critic said Masini overacted and hammed it up. She answered "What can I do with this crazy face of mine? I just smile a little or wink and its like an earthquake.
One cinema master talking about another!!
To be honest I’m not that interested in Scorsese’s own movies as I don’t tend to feel much resonance with them, but I am very impressed with how he talks here of Fellini and La Strada here with such sensitivity and insight.
Try some of his more underrated films like Age of Innocence and Last Temptation of Christ.
Real great movie
Must see
Watching a film may be "passive," but the making of one surely is not!
Anthony Quinn was incredible in this film.
Great comments , I love this movie
Best movie I've ever seen
Pop brought me to see the opening, in Italian, profound experience.
It is a beautiful film, but it is hard to argue that it is Fellini's masterpiece or the only must see. Nights of Cabiria is a more mature and far greater exploration of similar themes - not to mention his actual masterpiece, La dolce Vita - by which I mean that Scorsese barely mentions it, as though it were one you could skip.
“His English was a little poor, but the Italian eeeehrrr… it was incredibile”!
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I only knew of this movie because at my first grade there was a poster titled for a local stage play called "La strada"
It was then i had just learned to read so i read every sign and poster etc i could find and then i memorised it and it said "Loosely based on the movie of the same name" that is the only lines i can still remember
The name stayed with me and one day i looked it up and i remember hearing people talking about how it was one of the best movies they had ever seen etc
One day i found a DVD on sale online and watched it
Wow
I may have been around 17 at the time but ... Wow it remained with me ever since and i remember the feelings i had was kinda difficult to describe but i think it was the first time i ever was genuinely touched by a movie
I started looking up all other Giuelietta Masina roles i could but only "Nights of Cabiria" came close to "La strada" for me and it didn't even come that close to La Strada
Feillinis other movies was too surreal and at times weird for me
But La Strada will always have a special place in my heart
This is a good movie.
E un commento che avrei voluto ascoltare da un regista così famoso ma neanche i sottotitoli avete messo grazie per non averli messi
Is this part of a longer interview? If so, what is it called?
Thanks, yes, love it so. One of 3 movies that start me crying just talking/thinking about it. (The other 2 are Madame Rosa, Million Dollar Baby) I would be interested to hear Mr Scorsese describe why he doesn't like circus
Fellini himself said his movies were never "neo-realism".
wish someone in the bbc would show it
7:50 sentiment and sentimental
I love Fellini's neo-realist phase, wish he'd kept going with it tbh. That said, I adore La Dolce Vita too so I'm glad it exists.
everyone in the comments crediting scorsese for this when Fellini is. the one who wrote/direct it !
Fellini has always been my fav film maker.
The movie Who also wrote by Ennio Flaiano and Tullio pagano and Fellini of course
No sound
Ganzo
There are no un-dubbed version of La Strada. In both versions we hear at least two characters speaking in their native voice. IMO the "English" voice of Gelsomina is very,very good. Of course a person fluent in both English and Italian might prefer the Italian one. And I do agree with Scorsese about Zampano...an uneducated,unsophisticated man who,we find at the end,was not totally devoid of decency
I prefer the Italian w subtitles. I speak some Italian and he's right there are some amusing things said that don't translate. I think hearing Gelsomina's real voice is important. Is AQ speaking Italian?
@@stj971 I speak one word of Italian.And of course something's lost with dubbing...tones of voice,little jokes,etc. IMO Gelsomina and The Fool were the most important characters and in hearing either of them dubbed you're losing something.
No it was AQ's real voice (English) that was heard in the "English" version.
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the dark place.
Anthony Quinn was not American, he was Mexican.
He was a citizen of this country, he was American.
He was half Mexican and half Irish by blood but American by citizenship.
@@akaraniq He had an American passport. American is not an ethnicity.
@@DeanH92 Mexican isn't either. American was his nationality as well, he was a citizen.
Mexico it in américa......i'm american too , i'm from chile 🇨🇱🇨🇱
"il matto fa male" ...(the clown is hurt) [recurring line by gelsomina]
Those are bushy eyebrows Marty.....
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