La Dolce Vita
Apr 29 - Apr 30, 2008
(Federico Fellini, Italy, 1960, 35mm, 174 min)
This film suits the freewheeling early 1960’s with its alternately funny, feral, sweet and seductive meditation on what is truly meaningful (if anything). Marcello Mastroianni was catapulted into superstar status as the sensitive tabloid reporter juggling the affections of several women (including voluptuous movie star Anita Ekberg, icy mistress Anouk Aimee and neurotic girlfriend Magali Noel) while making the rounds of the spirit-destroying nightlife of the Via Veneto. Mastroianni’s scene with Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain at dawn remains one of the most timeless, memorable images ever to emerge from world cinema.