La Dolce Vita (1960) (aka The Sweet Life)


Federico Fellini


Italian





“You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home”


 

Whenever there is a discussion on Fellini’s ultimate masterpiece, the inevitable finalists are 8½ (1963) and La Dolce Vita (1960). Critics are thoroughly polarized on the former with Joseph Bennett (Kenyon Review) even calling it “The worst film made by a major Italian film director”! As for La Dolce Vita… Read More

Metropolis (1927)


Fritz Lang


German





“There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.”


 

When cinema was in its infancy during the teens and the twenties, many pioneers sought to provide it a definite shape and even assemble various tools and benchmarks for the decades of filmmakers to come. This led to the formation of various cinematic and narrative techniques… Read More