La Strada is re-released in Britain

Ma de tristezza, ovviamente....

Nino Rota's soundtrack:
https://youtu.be/CKLa8j06lkw

Ooh, youtube sent me the Amarcord soundtrack too. I probably saw Amarcord three times, but the decades pass.

I have to look up where some of us talked on a2k about italian movies; I remember that Fbaezer knows a lot and that we had some of the same favorites.

I still have yet to see a single Fellini film.

I probably like Amarcord the best, still remember some scenes... you'll know them if you ever watch it. It is set in the area Fellini was born.

I hated Satyricon. Tastes differ. Mine might too by now, but I suffered, almost crawling under the theater seat to avoid my boredom (husband was still interested in it... he has a masters in theater).

To me, the actress in La Strada (who was Fellini's wife), seeing that youtube that Olivier linked, just watching those bits, she is too doll like, but I don't remember having that reaction when I saw the film - it made believable sense to me then.

If you are not very fond of the Vatican, you might like Roma: I did like it, not the Vatican, the movie - but the storyline escapes me now. Well, storyline is a word that can turn into spaces with Fellini.

I've never seen Amarcord nor 8 and half, his most oniric films as i gathered. Satyricon was a bit long but i still remember some of it foundly, a good sign. Dolce Vita is good too, if you like the city.

Gelsomima is an archetype - a female white clown if you wish. Me think she had to be a bit doll like.

I've not seen 8 1/2 either. Never saw La Dolce Vita. Yeah, I like the city.

Adds, I read up on wikipedia yesterday re Fellini and learned a lot of his history I'd not known before, and more about his film making that I'd not know before either.

There are other movie makers I like... besides several more italians: french, japanese, irish, british, american, scandinavian...