Fellini's Roma

Federico Fellini's monumental and outlandish tribute to his beloved Rome, The Eternal City, begins with Fellini as a youngster living in the Italian countryside. In school he studies the eclectic history of ancient Rome and then is introduced, as a young man, to the real thing -- arriving in this strange new city on the outbreak of World War II. Here, through a series of vignettes brimming with satire and spark, the filmmaker comes to grips with a sprawling Rome.