Watch two exclusive clips from 'The Last Fellini' below, which PiperPlay has boarded for international sales Martin Scorsese recalls his last conversation with Federico Fellini in “The Last Fellini,” a new documentary about the final decade of the Italian auteur’s life premiering at Rome Film Festival on Saturday. Scorsese is well known to be huge Fellini fan and has cited “8½” as one of his all-time favorite films. His film foundation was also involved in restoring Fellini’s masterpiece, “La Dolce Vita.” Though much has been told about Fellini, the final chapter in his life remains largely unexplored.
In “The Last Fellini,” he details how he and Fellini almost teamed up on what he affectionately calls a “crazy” documentary series about different aspects of film production. In a humorous twist, Fellini also told Scorsese that, for a producer, the most important role was that of the location manager. The plan was for the first one-hour segment of this Fellini documentary series to be on the actor.
Scorsese, who had a deal with Universal at the time, had secured $1 million to finance it. But then Fellini became ill and died in October 1993. As the doc’s narrative reaches 1993, his final year, it shows Fellini receiving an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in Los Angeles.
The day after the ceremony, he had his last phone conversation with Scorsese, which he recalls in the below clip. You know, I’ll see you soon. Yeah, I hope so.'” Scorsese then goes on to speculate on what Fellini was thanking him for, since they hadn’t spoken directly about the fact that he had found the financing.
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