Fellini then and now
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Federico Fellini was born a hundred years ago this January. From the mid-1950s on, Fellini made some of the greatest films in the history of cinema. He began work in the ruins of post Second World War Italy and his best films came across the next 20 years as Italy recovered from the long catastrophe of fascism and kick-started its economy while producing some of the most powerful and liberating cinema the world has known. When we celebrate the man, we actually celebrate several Fellinis: there is the young man who co-writes the scripts of Rome, Open City and Paisa with Roberto Rossellini, contributing to the beginning of the Italian neo-realism movement; there is the novice director who...