La Dolce Vita (1960)

I believe that there are very few films that can change your life. They entertain, inform, impress, give pause and a variety of other influences and effects. But it takes the collision of a point in time in your life, being in a particular frame of mind, in some random location, thinking ideas of little consequence when a series of frames comes onto the screen and burn themselves into your synapses. Suddenly, you are different. This happened to me the first time I watched La dolce vita and it has shaped my life ever since. I won’t go into details (they are best left to my posthumous memoirs) but don’t discount the effects movies can have on your life.

Director:  Federico Fellini Writer:  Federico Fellini; Ennio Flaiano; Tullio Pinelli; Brunello Rondi; John Francis Lane; Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast:
Marcello Mastroianni -  Marcello Rubini Anita Ekberg -  Sylvia Anouk Aimee -  Maddalena Yvonne Furneaux -  Emma Magali Noel -  Fanny Alain Cuny -  Steiner Annibale Ninchi -  Marcello’s father Walter Santesso -  Paparazzo		Valeria Ciangottini -  Paola Riccardo Garrone -  Riccardo, the Villa Owner Ida Galli -  Debutante of the Year Audrey McDonald -  Jane Polidor -  Clown Alain Dijon -  Frankie Stout Enzo Cerusico -  Newspaper photographer Giulio Paradisi -  Newspaper photographer