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Fellini's waif and strongman on the road; Giulietta Masina's face does the rest.

A director with nothing to say makes a film about that; Fellini's masterpiece.

A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.

A year in Fellini's Rimini under Mussolini: peacocks in snow, the ocean liner at night.

Five young men idle away their twenties in a seaside town; the film Scorsese keeps remaking.

A wife's visions in Fellini's first colour film, made for Giulietta Masina.

Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.

Donald Sutherland as a mechanical seducer in a Venice built entirely in the studio.