![]() ![]() ![]() They also function as a celebrity portrait gallery. The sketchbooks, similar in format to the large comic books that Fellini said were crucial to his education, reflect his fears and activities in the film world. One sketch has the worried annotation, “Have I just let a film idea escape while engaged in my usual neurotic masturbatory fantasies?” ![]() His sketchbooks were partly a record of possible film ideas. True to his childhood self, he later was to regard his films as dreams on celluloid. He had named the four corners of his bed after four cinemas of Rimini, his birthplace on the Adriatic coast. As a child, Fellini could not wait for bedtime, when he would close his eyes and see absorbing spectacles. But the extent of that devotion has become fully evident only now, with the publication of “Il Libro dei Sogni” - “The Book of Dreams.” These sketches, mostly done with variously colored felt-tip pens, are a reminder that Fellini came to Rome in 1939 to study law but instead spent two years as a cartoonist and writer for a satirical fortnightly.Ī Jungian psychologist encouraged Fellini to record his “night work,” his dreams, and he did so assiduously from 1960 to ’68 and again from 1973 to 1990. ![]() ANYONE familiar with the films of Federico Fellini knows that he gave importance to dreams. ![]()
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