Why in the name of all that is holy do people like Federico Fellini?

also of Ebert's changing view of the film over the years:

"Movies do not change, but their viewers do. When I saw "La Dolce Vita" in 1960, I was an adolescent for whom "the sweet life" represented everything I dreamed of: sin, exotic European glamour, the weary romance of the cynical newspaperman. When I saw it again, around 1970, I was living in a version of Marcello's world; Chicago's North Avenue was not the Via Veneto, but at 3 a.m. the denizens were just as colorful, and I was about Marcello's age. When I saw the movie around 1980, Marcello was the same age, but I was 10 years older, had stopped drinking, and saw him not as a role model but as a victim, condemned to an endless search for happiness that could never be found, not that way. By 1991, when I analyzed the film a frame at a time at the University of Colorado, Marcello seemed younger still, and while I had once admired and then criticized him, now I pitied and loved him. And when I saw the movie right after Mastroianni died, I thought that Fellini and Marcello had taken a moment of discovery and made it immortal"

don’t think if I’ve ever seen Nico as an actress outside of this film

*don't know

of all of the ‘greatest films of all time’, 8 1/2 is the one I have the hardest time relating to, or even understanding

it seems like a whole movie made up of beautifully-filmed interstitial sequences and hectoring party scenes

Juliet of the Spirits is beautiful as his first film in color, but it doesn’t quite have the magic of 8 1/2

I have rewatched most of his films now. Need to see Nights of Cabiria and Satyricon again.

I admire 8 1/2 and especially La Dolce Vita, but I think that La Strada is the Fellini film I love the most. It is neorealism that has been transcended to include expressionist dreams and fantasies (although not the explicit ones of later films, and better for it).

I think it is fascinating and really moving. Anthony Quinn as Zampano gives one of the greatest ever performances, which doesn’t seem to have been acknowledged at the time

having not seen any of these in more than 20 years, La Strada is the one that has stuck with me because of Giulietta Masina and Anthony Quinn's absolutely amazing performances.

I like Fellini’s description of Satyricon as “science fiction of the past”. There’s not much of a story but it is such a surreal, grotesque spectacle and is so out of time that it remains interesting

with Roma I can really see how Fellini's chaotic party sequences and crowd scenes evolved into spectacle

I loved the motorcycles tearing through Rome at the end

2020 is his centennial year, so there'll be a lot of re-evaluation.

8 1/2 - WHY does everyone love this movie

I don't.

filmmakers and people who wish they were

watched Amarcord this week. It’s interesting to see a film a second time 30+ years later and to compare the impressions it made then vs now

Happy 100 to Il Maestro. The haters and naysayers can continue hatin'.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6780-celebrating-fellini-at-100