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Fellini

Fellini

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An Italian film director and writer who makes creative, dreamlike movies
  • proper noun
  • /fɛˈliːni/
: Federico Fellini
  • My favorite Federico Fellini film is "8½," which showcases his unique storytelling style.
  • Federico Fellini

You looked like like a hot, androgynous, like femme dude from like a Fellini film.

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Examples

  • It's a Fellini movie.

  • What about classical art films, like Fellini or Buñuel?

  • Like the cast of a Fellini movie.

  • We saw the Fellini film last Tuesday.

  • No, not "9 1/2", 8 1/2, the Fellini film.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • The survey is like asking people if they would rather watch a Fellini film or a Michael Bay movie.

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  • Have you ever sat for an entire Fellini film in your life?

  • I Kinda wish we'd gone to that Fellini movie instead.

  • If it weren't for you and Gene, I would have never heard of Fellini or Bergman.

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  • I often wondered what happened to all those extras from Fellini's movies once the shooting was done.

    Fiction book (1999)

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Etymology

Fellini is an Italian family name, best known from the director Federico Fellini. A helpful way to remember it is to think 'Fellini' as 'Italian cinema' and 'dreamlike' images, because his name now often stands for that imaginative film style.