Free Preview: Film Director's Erotic Fantasies 1978
Six of the world’s great film makers portray their sexual visions for Playboy. Unfortunately, due to film censorship and other restrictions, many of the world’s foremost directors rarely get the opportunity to express their own erotic fantasies on celluloid. So we approached some of the master film makers with the notion of shooting for us what they can’t or simply haven’t put on film. The directors involved supervised the shootings much as they would a film, and two—Gordon Parks and Jerry Schatzberg—did their own photography as well. As you’ll see, the results are all fairly characteristic of each director’s particular cinematic style. Federico Fellini (<i>La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Casanova</i>) - When asked to comment on his fantasy photos, Fellini quipped, "Why do you need a comment? The picture speaks for itself." But in conversations with Playboy's film critic Bruce Williamson, Fellini explained that he simply found amusing the sight of two little priests (played by Alvaro Vitali and Luigi Leone) flying a kite at the shore and discovering a voluptuous goddess (Renata Schmidt) at the other end of the line. Fellini added that he wasn't sure what it all meant. Michelangelo Antonioni (<i>L'Avventura, Blow-Up</i>) - "When I was asked for an erotic fantasy, strangely, I kept mentally fondling the idea of mountains. I say strangely because nature is dramatic or pleasant or idyllic, not erotic. But I was thinking for a landscape in human form, mountains or dunes that might be...
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