The Italian film director Federico Fellini (1920-1993) began as an exponent of poetic neorealism and later became the cinema's undisputed master of psychological expressionism and surrealist fantasy. Federico Fellini was born of middle-class family on...

Italian film director Federico Fellini helped bring the cinema to a mature state of expressive quality, introducing an eye-opening kaleidoscope of psychological symbolism and sometimes bawdy imagery to popular audiences and art-house denizens alike....

Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI[1] (January 20 1920 – October 31 1993) was an Italian film director. He is considered to have been one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the 20th...

A fire on the set of "Rome," a completed HBO series on the ancient empire, has damaged part of the famed Cinecitta film studios. No one was reported injured.The blaze, which started late Thursday, burned through about 32,000 square feet, firefighters said. The sprawling complex...

A man threw a bucket of red paint or dye into Rome's Trevi Fountain on Friday, coloring the waters of the 18th-century monument bright red in front of a crowd of astonished tourists and residents.The man escaped, leaving the fountain, which normally runs on a...

The good name and dignity of the classic 1960s film "La Dolce Vita," directed by Federico Fellini, is being stripped away by two pornographic movies using the same name, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.International Media Films Inc. accused New York filmmaker Andrei Treivas Bregman...

The Rome Film Festival opened its second edition Thursday, harkening back to the Eternal City's 1960s cinematic heyday.Featuring premieres such as Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in a decade, "Youth Without Youth," the Rome event is gaining status in a country best known for the...

In the following essay, Burke discusses how Fellini's major works reflect key issues in literary and film theory, namely the notions of authorship and identity.

In the following essay, originally published in Italian Journal in 1990, Lawton discusses the unifying motifs of Fellini's oeuvre.

In essence, the whole of Fellini can be found in [the first] sequence from La Strada [which ends with Gelsomina following the circus band after leaving Zampano]. His thematic centre is here. To begin with, reinforced by the title itself, there is the sense of life as a journey, as a constant tearing away from things known and a plunging into the unfamiliar. Unlike Bergman, however, whose allegoric wanderings are generally from place to place … in Fellini, there is seldom any sense of direction or eve...