Federico Fellini

The great Italian director Federico Fellini had such an amazing career that HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano have plenty to talk about in this podcast episode. When  Fellini began working as a screenwriter in the 1940s, the movement known as neorealism emphasized location shooting, the use of non-professional actors, and a thematic focus on the poverty afflicting Italy in the immediate post-war years. When Fellini began directing his own movies in the 1950s, he pulled away from that movement and instead made more personally expressive films including such early classics as "La Strada" (1954) and "La Dolce Vita" (1960). Fellini's later films increasingly tap into his own subconscious mind, and so the best advice for prospective viewers is to just let the spectacular images float by as in a dream.