Top Fellini Movies to Watch on Satellite TV

Top Fellini Movies to Watch on Satellite TV

Federico Fellini is an Italian film director who is widely considered one of the most important movie makers of all time. He was born in Rimini in 1920, a small seaside down on the Adriatic sea, and grew to become one of Italy's most renowned artists. He initially moved to Rome to attend law school, but then eventually started writing screen plays for other directors. He immersed himself in international literature, and soon developed a desire to make his own features, blending surreal elements and fantasy sequences with universal philosophical questions. After surviving World War II, he began to make movies in the 1950s. He went on to have a long, fruitful career, and is now revered around the world by film aficionados, artists, and Italophiles alike. A recent American film entitled "Nine" starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Kate Hudson, and Marion Cotillard was made based on one of his works (although the film itself did not receive high reviews). If you have a satellite TV package, you can catch his work on foreign film channels or indie flicks networks alike. Here are some of the best ones to look out for when you are surfing the channels on your brand new high definition television.

1. 8 1/2

This 1963 film is actually one of Fellini's most famous, and was the inspiration for the aforementioned 2009 film, "Nine". In it, a quasi-autobiographical famous Italian director named Guido cannot figure out the script for his upcoming film. His love life is simultaneously rocky, and he recounts all of the women who have inspired him both in real life, and in his fantasy world. These women include his wife, Luisa, his mistress, the starlet who stars in all of his films, his mother, and an old woman in his village who he got in trouble for watching dance provocatively when he was a young schoolboy. He has both real encounters with these women, and surreal fantasy sequences that involve all of them and more. If you have satellite TV, you might be able to catch this film and then watch "Nine" and do a comparison. All but the most peculiar film lovers would choose "8 " any day as the winner in the side-by-side comparison.

2. La Dolce Vida

This 1960 film is another one of Fellini's masters. It is Italian for "the Good Life" or "The Sweet Life". It is about a journalist who spends a week in Rome, and is divided into a prologue, seven vignettes, and an epilogue. Some film critics argue that each of the seven vignettes is supposed to form consecutive days in this journalist's journey, while others argue that they are unattached.

3. La Voce Della Luna

This is Fellini's last film before his death in 1993. It is interesting to compare this to his black and white films of the earlier period in the 60s and 70s. The brilliant colors of this philosophical examination of his life are brilliant to watch in high definition.

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