History Creator / FedericoFellini

* HongKongDub: Some of his later films are very badly dubbed, mostly because Fellini thought up new dialogues for the actors to say even after every scene was already shot.

* {{Neologism}}: The word "paparazzo" was derived from his film Film/LaDolceVita.

* SurrealHumor

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

* ''Film/SpiritsOfTheDead'' (1968)

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, ''Rome, Open City'', he hired Fellini as a dialogue writer. Fellini worked with Rossellini on many major films 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.

* ''Literature/TheSatyricon'' (1969)

* ''Satyricon'' (1969)

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.

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 Soldi. When Creator/RobertoRossellini cast Soldi against type in his serious film, ''Rome, Open City'', he hired Fellini as a dialogue writer. Fellini worked with Rossellini on many major films 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.

* ''LaStrada'' (1954)

* ''Juliet of the Spirits'' (''Giulietta degli Spiriti'', 1965)

* ''LaDolceVita'' (1960)

* ''IVitelloni'' (1953)

After he switched to color in the mid-60's, Fellini stopped suppressing his imagination and made a bunch of "What on Earth is going on right now?" movies. At the time, most of them were dismissed by critics and several fans, his universally-loved semi-autobiographical masterpiece ''Film/{{Amarcord}}'' being the exception. Many of his fans, however, heartily and readily agree that his color films are important; in recent times, some such as ''Juliet of the Spirits'', ''Satyricon'', his version of ''Casanova'', ''And the Ship Sails On'', and ''Intervista'' are gaining stature as being the most mature works. There are a very high number of movie critics and historians who would argue that his "weird" period is the best of his career.

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.

* ''NightsOfCabiria'' (''Le Notti di Cabiria'', 1957)

* ShoutOut: Shout-outs to classic 1930s movie icons like MaeWest, LaurelAndHardy and TheMarxBrothers are not uncommon.

* GrotesqueGallery

After he switched to color in the mid-60's, Fellini stopped suppressing his imagination and made a bunch of "What on Earth is going on right now?" movies. At the time, most of them were dismissed by critics and several fans, his universally-loved semi-autobiographical masterpiece ''{{Amarcord}}'' being the exception. Many of his fans, however, heartily and readily agree that his color films are important; in recent times, some such as ''Juliet of the Spirits'', ''Satyricon'', his version of ''Casanova'', ''And the Ship Sails On'', and ''Intervista'' are gaining stature as being the most mature works. There are a very high number of movie critics and historians who would argue that his "weird" period is the best of his career.

Many of his fans, however, heartily and readily agree that his color films are important; in recent times, some such as ''Juliet of the Spirits'', ''Satyricon'', his version of ''Casanova'', ''And the Ship Sails On'', and ''Intervista'' are gaining stature as being the most mature works. There are a very high number of movie critics and historians who would argue that his "weird" period is the best of his career, his universally-loved semi-autobiographical masterpiece Amarcord being the exception.

Many of his fans, however, heartily and readily agree that his color films are important; in recent times, some such as ''Juliet of the Spirits'', ''Satyricon'', his version of ''Casanova'', ''And the Ship Sails On'', and ''Intervista'' are gaining stature as being the most mature works. There are a very high number of movie critics and historians who would argue that his "weird" period is the best of his career.

There are critics who are usually divided into two camps: those who love his early, black and white 'realist' movies, and those who who love this early, black and white 'realist' movies, with his universally-loved semi-autobiographical masterpiece ''Amarcord'' being the exception.

Very few heartily and readily agree that his color films are important, though in recent times, some such as ''Juliet of the Spirits'', ''Satyricon'', his version of ''Casanova'', ''And the Ship Sails On'', and ''Intervista'' are gaining stature as being the most mature works. Indeed, today there are a number of movie critics and historians who would argue that his "weird" period is the best of his career.

Very few heartily and readily agree that his color films are important, though in recent times, some such as ''Juliet of the Spirits'', ''Satyricon'', his version of ''Casanova'', ''And the Ship Sails On'', and ''Intervista'' are gaining stature as being the most mature works.

* BigBeautifulWoman (the most famous examples can be found in ''Film/EightAndAHalf'' and ''Film/{{Amarcord}}'')

While his films are what make the artist, his life was equally fascinating, living through the time of [[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]].

* FetishRetardant

* NightmareFuel

* BigBeautifulWoman (the most famous examples can be found in ''Film/EightAndAHalf'' and ''{{Amarcord}}'')

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

* ''{{Amarcord}}'' (1973)