Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini’s The Swindle, part of Berlinale Classics, brings to fore the filmmaker’s deeply Catholic concerns

Fellini’s religious portrayals have always been criticised by a section of conservative Italian society, leading them to wonder if he is really a Catholic.

Pain and Glory movie review: Pedro Almodovar digs deep into his past in an intimate self-portrait

Pedro Almodovar's Pain and Glory is a painfully honest portrait of an artist in a personal and professional crisis.

Roma: Alfonso Cuarón has developed into an able craftsman but does not have anything of significance to say

What critics respond to most is the look of a film and it is only in its ‘look’ that Roma comes up trumps; still, the look of a film is not something it is long remembered by.

La Strada, Two English Girls, Three Colours: Red — Baradwaj Rangan's favourite foreign films

Here's Baradwaj Rangan's list of his favourite foreign films.

Federico Fellini's cinema is like reading a Latin-American novel — humane, dreamy and poetic

Fellini's films make sense in a primal way – like poetry.