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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

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 ...

The film critic Stuart Klawans has written a fascinating book called “Film Follies,” which deals with movies so extravagant in their ambitions as to blur the boundary between artistic inspiration and ...

“Fellini: I’m a Born Liar” is a sometimes entrancing documentary of one of the 20th Century’s major filmmakers: the great Italian fabulist autobiographer and dream-weaver Federico Fellini, maker 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 ...

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, ...

A film such as Fellini Satyricon seems impossible today. Today through Sunday and on Wednesday, Rice Media Center presents a new print of this eye-jolting, eyebrow-raising masterwork that is as ...