Curated List
A Fellini Primer
Three films, Fellini from 1954 to 1963
Three Fellini films, made between 1954 and 1963 and arranged by date. La Strada and Nights of Cabiria both star his wife Giulietta Masina, and those two films and 8½ each received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; Fellini won it four times in all.
- 01
The Road
La strada · 1954
Federico Fellini
From 1954, the start of Fellini's move away from neorealism, and an early film in his long working relationship with the composer Nino Rota.
- 02
Nights of Cabiria
Le notti di Cabiria · 1957
Federico Fellini
From 1957, and the film for which Masina took the acting award at Cannes. It is the last of Fellini's films set among the poor of Rome.
- 03
8½
Otto e mezzo · 1963
Federico Fellini
From 1963, and the first time Fellini took film-making itself as his subject, with Mastroianni as a director named Guido. Juliet of the Spirits and Roma continue in the same direction.