Published: March 28, 1986 MORE than 40 years after the height of their fame, which wasn't exactly international to begin with, Amelia (Giulietta Masina) and Pippo (Marcello Mastroianni) are brought out of retirement to reprise their ballroom dance act, 'Ginger and Fred,' on a television variety show called 'We Are Proud to Present. Marketing Plan Pro Premier 6.0 here. ' ' The occasion is a gala Christmas special featuring, among others, midget tango dancers, the on-camera marriage of a defrocked priest, the most famous kidnap victims of our era, a handsome Mafia boss with the manners of a gracious movie star, look-alikes for Clark Gable, Marcel Proust and Rita Hayworth, an ancient naval officer once decorated for heroism, and a man who has pioneered the development of edible, vitamin-enriched panties. 'Ginger and Fred,' the great Federico Fellini's latest cinema spectacle, is most entertaining in bits and pieces and, on several occasions, it's inspired. The film, opening today at Loews Tower East, is a hysterical send-up of Italian television, which looks like an LSD-induced vision of ours 30 years ago - a combination of Morey Amsterdam's 'Broadway Open House,' 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' Alistair Cooke's 'Omnibus' and the Irv Kupcinet show. At its core, 'Ginger and Fred' is a consideration of television as a universe complete unto itself, where immortality is a three-minute spot on-camera and where shadows are more real than the figures that cast them. 'We are phantoms,' says Mr. Mastroianni's Pippo.

'We arise from the darkness and disappear again.' ' Having begun as a medium designed to entertain and inform the members of its audience, television has now reversed the roles - the audience exists to serve the casting needs of television. The people milling around backstage at 'We Are Proud to Present' are souls awaiting judgment in this electronic age's only purgatory. Like all Fellini films, 'Ginger and Fred' looks and sounds like the work of no other director.

Buy Ginger and Fred (1986). The music is typically whimsical and lovely as any Fellini film. Kamus Arab Indonesia Mahmud Yunus Yahoo here. 'Fred and Ginger' will rank high on my list of favorite films. Mar 28, 1986 Like all Fellini films, 'Ginger and Fred' looks and sounds like the work of no other director. It follows its own logic. Ginger and Fred has been added to your Cart. The music is typically whimsical and lovely as any Fellini film. 'Fred and Ginger' will rank high on my list of. Directed by Federico Fellini. With Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Friedrich von Ledebur. Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades.

It follows its own logic, which is that of a flamboyant magician whose running commentary doesn't always fit the tricks he's improvising. One result is that the film is not always as much fun to watch as it is to talk about afterward. The screenplay is actually an amalgam of two quite different Fellini movies, one of which - the perfectly specific, emotionally involving tale of the reunion of Amelia and Pippo -keeps being overwhelmed by a gaudy, impressionistic film that recalls 'The Clowns' and 'Fellini Roma.'

' One longs for fewer midgets and bizarre misfits and for more of Miss Masina and Mr. Miss Masina and Mr. Mastroianni are both hugely funny and affecting when they're given the spotlight -Miss Masina as a pragmatic, sprucely dressed widow from the provinces, who's agreed to come out of retirement to please her grandchildren, and Mr.

Mastroianni as a boozy, over-the-hill womanizer who needs the money. The movie is never quite clear about what degree and type of celebrity Ginger and Fred enjoyed in their heyday. At times you might think they were only a couple of cuts above the tacky performers in the classic 'Variety Lights,' but then, why would they be remembered by 'We Are Proud to Present'? At other times you might think they were performers on the order of Veloz and Yolanda, or Marge and Gower Champion, though it's also apparent that Amelia and Pippo's entire professional life was based on their reprising - straight - the great routines of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Finally you must suspect they represent the sort of performers who, in this country, make small, comparatively obscure lifetime careers imitating Mae West or Elvis Presley.