One of the most important directors of the Czechoslovak New Wave, his “A Blonde in Love (1965)” and “The Fireman’s Ball (1967)” were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In the film, Fellini stars as himself, and explores his unnatural childhood obsession with circus clowns. His masterpiece 8½ (1963), about a director struggling to complete his film, due to facing various personal and professional problems has inspired Truffaut’s Day for Night (1973), Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York (2008) and countless other films with the similar plot.Ī TV movie for Italian TV station RAI and filled with his signature visuals, The Clowns shows Fellini at his weirdest.

His films, known for their elements of fantasy and exquisite visuals have either directly or indirectly inspired any film director born after they were released. Italian film director and global film icon, Federico Fellini is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time. The Conversation is not underrated in the sense of award nominations or critical acclaim, but, this film about surveillance expert Harry Caul’s (Gene Hackman) slow descent into paranoia after he records a possible murder plot deserves to be recognised as one of the greatest films ever made. Sandwiched between the greatest film ever made and the greatest sequel ever made, is this subtle masterpiece – The Conversation. He and his films won countless Oscars, two Palme d’Or’s and have all since been preserved in the National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”. In this decade, he worked with many all time acting greats. The man co-wrote Patton in 1970 (which earned him his first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay), directed and co-wrote The Godfather I and II (for which he earned four more Oscar’s) and then went through hell and high water to make Apocalypse Now (1979). What Francis Ford Coppola did in the 1970’s is hard to see anyone coming even close to replicating any time soon.

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