Photo of Nino Rota
Photo of Nino Rota

Nino Rota

Rota once said he felt it unfortunate that a film score was, usually, only a secondary element of a film, subservient to the visual images, a mere tool, used to recall and give credence to the images and the emotions those images try to evoke. —Suzanne Thomas

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    ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL

    FEDERICO FELLINI Italy, 1978

    Cinema maestro Federico Fellini gleefully satirizes the ivory tower of classical music in this playful late work, where the rehearsal of a Nino Rota piece erupts into a cacophony of sore egos. Brilliantly self-referential, the structure of a TV documentary forms a meta critique of the medium itself.

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