After such early works as I vitelloni, Fellini broke away from neorealism’s political strictures with the beloved La strada, and from there boldly explored his obsessions with the circus, societal decadence, spiritual redemption, and, most controversially, women, in such films as Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, and And the Ship Sails On.

In his early career, Fellini was both a screenwriter for neorealist pioneer Roberto Rossellini and a newspaper caricaturist in postwar Rome, competing influences he would bring together with startling results. It is also Fellini's most cohesive and straightforward film - despite its episodic framework and multifarious cast of characters - as well as the film that made Marcello. While his most popular-and accessible-film, the darkly nostalgic childhood memoir Amarcord, is a great entryway into his oeuvre, 8½, a collage of memories, dreams, and fantasies about a director’s artistic crisis, is perhaps his masterpiece. Legendary Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita not only ranks as a landmark of Italian cinema but stands as one of the essential films of the 20th century. One of the greatest films of all time, the great masterpiece of Italian cinema and the best movie in the amazing filmography of Federico Fellini. One of Italy’s great modern directors, Federico Fellini was a larger-than-life maestro who created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique.

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