Federico Fellini: 10 Essential Films

In a directorial career spanning four decades, Federico Fellini became Italy's most celebrated filmmaker, but in recent years, while the critical stock of his contemporaries Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni has remained high, you get the feeling that Fellini's has taken a bit of a dip. This might seem odd, especially when you consider that La dolce vita (1960) and 8½ (1963) remain cinephile staples. It could be that the many films he made either side of this golden diptych haven't been fully appreciated – especially those from the 1970s and 80s – but there can be little doubt that his ever-playful, loose, carnivalesque approach (both in terms of sound and image) has produced some of cinema's most breathtaking moments.

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