When he wasn’t creating top ten lists, director Federico Fellini filled his time by creating one of the most celebrated filmographies ever. Last week, everyone’s favorite boutique home video label ...

A film such as Fellini Satyricon seems impossible today. With box office results now the prime (or only) consideration for most films, a picture so visually outrageous and daring and grotesque and ...

The maestro’s thumb-through of Petronius finds ancient Rome to be as joyless and overheated as modern Rome. Fellini described it as “science fiction of the past”. Much revelry, debauchery and ...

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LOOSELY ADAPTED from the ancient Roman satirical novel by Petronius about life under the emperor Nero, Federico Fellini brought one of his most bizarre and unsettling visions to the screen. The ...

Classic movie buffs with $200 to burn, take note: The Criterion Collection has announced “Essential Fellini,” a box set of 14 films from legendary film director Federico Fellini. The Blu-Ray set, ...

Federico Fellini had long considered adapting Petronius's Satyricon. In 1966, he announced a production with Alberto Sordi and Claudia Cardinale, but his casting ambitions soon came to encompass Mae ...

When a film’s described as “Felliniesque,” it’s usually in reference to one or more rather specific qualities. There’s a level of fantastical lyricism; eccentric escapism; and, typically, a ...

Though a common opinion, it's not really fair to say that the '70s, the decade in which Federico Fellini became most concerned with portraying decadence, coincided with Fellini's own period of ...

Not yet available for streaming. Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius’s classical ...