"Travelogue, memoir and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director's young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling...

A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.

"A Japanese film crew interviews Fellini about his career as he films the memories of his life as a young journalist walking into his beloved studio Cinecitta for the first time"--Container.

Renegade filmmaker Abel Ferrara explores the final days of another rebellious artist, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film follows him as he works on his controversial classic Salò o le centoventi giornate di Sodoma, or the 120 Days of Sodom, and leads up to his brutal murder on the beach in Ostia on the outskirts of the city.

"Set in an Italian village, Salvatore finds himself enchanted by the flickering images at the Cinema Paradiso, yearning for the secret of the cinema's magic. When the projectionist, Alfredo, agrees to reveal the mysteries of moviemaking, a deep friendship is born. The day comes for Salvatore to leave the village and pursue his dream for making movies of his own. Thiry years later he receives a message that becons him back home to a secret, beautiful...

The sieges of the Alcazar: Guy is a critic for Cahiers who dotes on the films of Vittorio Cottafavi--an Italian director overshadowed by Michelangelo Antonioni. One afternoon, Guy meets an intriguing woman at the old Alcazar Theater but is aghast to learn that not only is she an Antonioni fan, but she also works for the rival magazine Positif. The man of the badlands: A larger-than-life portrait of Moullet and the autobiographically inspired films...