History Creator / FedericoFellini

* EveryoneComesBackFantasyPartyEnding: Sometimes.

* ''Ginger and Fred'' (''Ginger e Fred'', 1986)

Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was a famous Italian filmmaker. Today, he's most likely known for his "Felliniesque" style, that is, magical realism, but not enough to qualify. Surreal, but not too surreal. Strange, and yet highly sedate.

-->-- '''Tullio Kezich''', author of ''Federico Fellini: His Life and Work in the documentary Fellini's Homecoming''

* ''Variety Lights'' (''Luci del Varietà'', 1950) (co-credited with Alberto Lattuada)

But above all, it is generally considered that Fellini is one of the more important filmmakers to come out of the [[ItalianNeorealism neorealist]] movement, eventually abandoning those roots and moving into the world of movie artifice. Or rather he returned to his roots. Before his career in movies, Fellini worked as a cartoonist, a writer for Italian photo-novels (called ''fumetti''), which were comic-books with professionally shot photographs with models instead of panels. He also owned a gag shop in Rome which allowed him to befriend many famous comedians such as Alberto Sordi. When Creator/RobertoRossellini cast Sordi against type in his serious film, ''Film/RomeOpenCity'', he hired Fellini as a dialogue writer. Fellini worked with Rossellini on many major films, such as ''Film/{{Paisan}}'', and even acted in the controversial short film, ''The Miracle''. Eventually Fellini started directing films himself. His earlier films were more sober and realistic -- ''Nights of Cabiria'' and ''La Strada'' -- both starring his wife even recieved nominations for Oscars for Foreign Films. His career really took off with ''Film/LaDolceVita'', a worldwide box-office hit.

* BigBeautifulWoman: A trademark of many of his films. Usually they're even so imposing that they become frightening.

* AuthorAppeal: Fellini once said: "If if I would make a movie about life itself, it would still be about me in the end."

While his films are what make the artist, his life was equally fascinating, living through the time of [[UsefulNotes/FascistItaly the fascists]], becoming a journalist and cartoonist, writing scripts with the neo-realists, becoming a celebrity in Italy by creating the morally "indecent" ''La Dolce Vita'' (where [[TropeNamer the term]] {{paparazzi}} [[TropeNamer comes from]]), supposedly having many affairs (including one with his actress Sandra Milo), taking a bit of experimental LSD under supervision by Doctors and remarking that he was "unimpressed" with the experience, surrounding himself with clairvoyants and mystics, adopting the principles of Carl Jung, improvising large chunks of a movie even when there was a script, mistreating Donald Sutherland on the set of ''Casanova'' (apparently, he claimed to have gained rights to film the story by having a seance with the spirit of the great lover himself), and shooting a movie on a cruise boat with almost no water [[StylisticSuck where the ocean was made of plastic and characters remark that the sun looks so beautiful it must have been painted on the wall]].

* TheCasanova: Fellini directed a film about him.

* CultSoundtrack: Nino Rota's music turned every Fellini film into this.

* UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}: Fellini adored Rome so much that he dedicated an entire movie to it: ''Roma''. The city also returns in most of his other movies.

But above all, it is generally considered that Fellini is one of the more important filmmakers to come out of the [[ItalianNeorealism neorealist]] movement, eventually abandoning those roots and moving into the world of movie artifice. Or rather he returned to his roots. Before his career in movies, Fellini worked as a cartoonist, a writer for Italian photo-novels (called ''fumetti''), which were comic-books with professionally shot photographs with models instead of panels. He also owned a gag shop in Rome which allowed him to befriend many famous comedians such as Alberto Sordi. When Creator/RobertoRossellini cast Sordi against type in his serious film, ''Film/RomeOpenCity'', he hired Fellini as a dialogue writer. Fellini worked with Rossellini on many major films, such as ''Film/{{Paisan}}'', and even acted in the controversial short film, ''The Miracle''. Eventually Fellini started directing films himself. His earlier films were more sober and realistic -- ''Nights of Cabiria'' and ''La Strada'' -- both starring his wife even recieved nominations for Oscars for Foreign Films. His career really took off with ''Film/LaDolceVita'' a worldwide box-office hit.

But above all, it is generally considered that Fellini is one of the more important filmmakers to come out of the neorealist movement, eventually abandoning those roots and moving into the world of movie artifice. Or rather he returned to his roots. Before his career in movies, Fellini worked as a cartoonist, a writer for Italian photo-novels (called ''fumetti''), which were comic-books with professionally shot photographs with models instead of panels. He also owned a gag shop in Rome which allowed him to befriend many famous comedians such as Alberto Sordi. When Creator/RobertoRossellini cast Sordi against type in his serious film, ''Film/RomeOpenCity'', he hired Fellini as a dialogue writer. Fellini worked with Rossellini on many major films, such as ''Film/{{Paisan}}'', and even acted in the controversial short film, ''The Miracle''. Eventually Fellini started directing films himself. His earlier films were more sober and realistic -- ''Nights of Cabiria'' and ''La Strada'' -- both starring his wife even recieved nominations for Oscars for Foreign Films. His career really took off with ''Film/LaDolceVita'' a worldwide box-office hit.

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* ''FellinisCasanova'' (1976)

* ''Il Casanova di Federico Fellini'' (1976)

* EarWorm: Nino Rota's melodies will never leave your head again.

* ''Roma'' (1972)

* ''Satyricon'' (1969)

But above all, it is generally considered that Fellini is one of the more important film-makers to come out of the neo-realist movement, eventually abandoning those roots and moving into the world of movie artifice. Or rather he returned to his roots. Before his career in movies, Fellini worked as a cartoonist, a writer for Italian photo-novels (called ''fumetti''), which were comic-books with professionally shot photographs with models instead of panels. He also owned a gag shop in Rome which allowed him to befriend many famous comedians such as Alberto Sordi. When Creator/RobertoRossellini cast Sordi against type in his serious film, ''Film/RomeOpenCity'', he hired Fellini as a dialogue writer. Fellini worked with Rossellini on many major films, such as ''Film/{{Paisan}}'', and even acted in the controversial short film, ''The Miracle''. Eventually Fellini started directing films himself. His earlier films were more sober and realistic -- ''Nights of Cabiria'' and ''La Strada'' -- both starring his wife even recieved nominations for Oscars for Foreign Films. His career really took off with ''Film/LaDolceVita'' a worldwide box-office hit.

Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was a famous Italian film-maker. Today, he's most likely known for his "Felliniesque" style. That is, magical realism, but not enough to qualify. Surreal, but not too surreal. Strange, and yet, highly sedate.

Some of his works are included here: