{"id":17590,"date":"2025-06-03T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17590"},"modified":"2025-06-01T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:57:23","slug":"city-of-women-1980-federico-fellini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17590","title":{"rendered":"City of Women (1980, Federico Fellini)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mastroianni plays our director&#8217;s stand-in <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8263\">again<\/a>.  Following a hot woman off a train in the middle of nowhere, he stumbles into a hidden hotel hosting a theatrical feminist convention. The women drive him into the night in a crazed caravan until he&#8217;s rescued by a dude with plenty of weapons and dogs&#8230; sees a telekinetic performance&#8230; descends a giant slide while reminiscing about various hot chicks&#8230; then the women put him on trial for sexism, ho hum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/citywomen1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>No part of this is realistic, all dream-logic.  Does it play circus music whenever things get zany?  Sure as hell it does.  We love Marcello, and Fellini is good at filming beautiful people and things, but it&#8217;s a <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14741\">Petrov&#8217;s Flu<\/a><\/em> situation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/citywomen2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastroianni plays our director&#8217;s stand-in again. Following a hot woman off a train in the middle of nowhere, he stumbles into a hidden hotel hosting a theatrical feminist convention. The women drive him into the night in a crazed caravan until he&#8217;s rescued by a dude with plenty of weapons and dogs&#8230; sees a telekinetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,494,330,666,294],"class_list":["post-17590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-dreaming","tag-federico-fellini","tag-feminism","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17614,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590\/revisions\/17614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}