La Dolce Vita ★★★★ 1960 In this influential and popular work a successful, sensationalistic Italian journalist covers the show-biz life in Rome, and alternately covets and disdains its glitzy shallowness. The film follows his dealings with the "sweet life" over a pivotal week. A surreal, comic tableaux with award-winning costuming; one of Fellini's most acclaimed films. In this film Fellini called his hungry celebrity photographers the Paparazzo—and it is as the paparazzi they have been ever since. In Italian with English subtitles. 174m/B VHS, Wide. IT Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Alain Cuny, Lex Barker, Yvonne Furneaux, Barbara Steele, Nadia Gray, Magali Noel, Walter Santesso, Jacques Sernas, Annibale Ninchi;
Director:
Federico Fellini;
Writer:
Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi, Federico Fellini;
Cameo:
Nino Rota. Oscars '61: Costume Des. (B&W); Cannes '60: Film; N.Y. Film Critics '61: Foreign Film.
