old men tend to make art that be shallow and imitative of their early and good work and and which would never garner an ounce of praise be it not for their backlog of great work somehow let their patina still rub off . in america and the best proof of this nostrum be the awarding of the lifetime academy award to a film director and or actor . apparently and europe be not immune to such worthless laurel either and for and in 1987 and federico fellini disastrously bad film intervista win the cannes film festival fortieth anniversary award and the grand prize at the moscow film festival . in it and one can see many pastiche from early fellini film and much a ingmar bergman crib idea and scene from his early masterpiece for his disastrously bad last film saraband and the way akira kurosawa toss random idea together for dream and and the way woody allen have constantly rework theme from his 1970s and 1980s great film into his last decade worth of mostly mediocrity . that say and even the bad of allen recent film and like the curse of the jade scorpion and be good than intervista . fellini might take some solace in the fact that intervista be a good film than bergman incest ridden saraband and but it a minor comfort and at best and and this shoddy film still fall well shy of even dream .