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La dolce vitaOther

by Federico Fellini

Who uses, recommends or left La dolce vita, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

5 people

Max Richter
German-born British composer of Sleep and The Blue Notebooks, and of film scores including Arrival.
loved

But of course there are films that you remember by their scores, like La dolce vita, whose images are suffused with Nina Rota’s extraordinary music. I love Fellini’s films, but I’m especially fond of this one.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Max Richter, the entry for La dolce vita.

2026-02-02·criterion.com ↗

Nina Menkes
American independent filmmaker of Magdalena Viraga (1986), Queen of Diamonds (1991), The Bloody Child (1996), Phantom Love (2007) and Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022); teaches at CalArts.
loved

The first time I saw La dolce vita was on VHS, when it came out at my local video store in the late eighties, and I voraciously watched it five times in a row.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Nina Menkes, the entry for La dolce vita.

2022-11-29·criterion.com ↗

Tracy Letts
American playwright and actor; won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for August: Osage County, wrote Killer Joe and Bug, and won a Tony as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013).
loved

La dolce vita is forever.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Tracy Letts, the entry for La dolce vita.

2017-11-29·criterion.com ↗

Doug Nichol
American filmmaker, cinematographer and music-video director; shot Madonna's Truth or Dare, won a Grammy for Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales video, and directed the documentary California Typewriter (2016).
loved

La strada, 8½, and La dolce vita are my favorite Fellini films.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Doug Nichol, the entry for La dolce vita.

2017-09-01·criterion.com ↗

Olivier Assayas
French director, screenwriter and former Cahiers du cinéma critic; his films include Irma Vep (1996), Summer Hours (2008), Carlos (2010), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) and Personal Shopper (2016).
loved

But La dolce vita is an amazing film, summing up an era, a culture, a city; in its own way it is of historical importance.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Olivier Assayas, the entry for Army of Shadows.

2015-05-29·criterion.com ↗

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