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 ...

Fellini’s Satyricon finally reaches London, plus the first film appearance of Emmanuelle 1 November 1993: Federico Fellini, giant of film, dies At last the Fellini Satyricon has hit London, dubbed in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A glacial queen, blue with pompous beauty, from Fellini Satyricon. All the men in this film are taut and glistening; all the women have beauty decomposing from within, the sickness of the Roman Empire ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visually stunning and sensationalistic film is Italian master Fellini's take on the decline of pagan Rome. Filled to the brim with cautionary sights of almost-surrealistic debauchery and depravity, ...

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 ...