His films have become iconic, La Strada(1954), La Dolce Vita(1960), and Amarcord(1973) to name just a few, and have inspired a great number of great filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese.
His work is characterized by their fantastical nature and use of "The Fool" as his protagonist - stylistic choices that weren't well received in his own country, which was, at the time, in the throes of the neorealistic movement. His cinematic worlds of good-natured fools, early neorealist screenplays, and carnivalesque studies of society and human nature, blend and war to form the universe in which Fellini's unique sensibilities abide.įellini began his career as a screenwriter in the early 1940s, eventually writing for Italian neorealist filmmaker Roberto Rossellini - ironic considering the direction in which he took his own films. With so many classics to his name, including his masterpiece 8 1/2(1963), which covers subject matter that is often thought to be impossible to do well, making a film, the flamboyant director has become one of the most celebrated filmmakers of all time.
The term "master filmmaker" gets thrown around quite a bit, but I can say without hyperbole that Italian director Federico Fellini is in fact a master filmmaker.
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