Saw the new Fellini documentary this weekend, Fellini: I’m a Born Liar. The film didn’t adequately celebrate the maestro’s life or work. Nor did it offer any juicy details about Fellini’s personal life that lovers of his films would be superficially interested in, since he was very much about the eclectic and the façade. Instead we’re exposed to Fellini through clips of a 1993 interview and from the films we already know. If his films stand on their own, why create a documentary at all? Give us the peeps.

Liar is nothing more than a series of interview clips and film clips, fluctuating back and forth for two hours without any real investigation. Interesting bits included juxtaposed quotes of Fellini contradicting others, like when he says he got along great with the actors, then cuts to Donald Sutherland claiming he was a tyrant with the actors. Misquoting Fellini, “The actors don’t mind being puppets as long as they have a good puppeteer.”

Another amusing clip was Terence Stamp talking about the shooting of Spirits of the Dead (which, after seeing the clips, is next on my Netflix list), on his first day in Rome, his first day on the set, his first scene in front of the camera, he got up there and demanded some direction from Fellini. Fellini took him aside and said something close to: “Imagine you were at a party last night where you had whiskey, marijuana, cocaina, whiskey, and you had a whorgy, fucking everyone—it was a whorgy. A black man comes and caresses your hair and you fuck him. You did this all night and right as you get here, someone puts a tab of LSD on your tongue, and then you walk on stage.” They roll the clip, and that was it, exactly.