Film maker Federico Fellini (pictured) is one of the giants of the modern artistic-literary film genre. Fellini's more critically acclaimed early films portray the dreamlike quality of life while also capturing that inexpressible something which separates reality from dreams. In the autobiographical film 8 1/2 , considered by his admirers to be one of his masterpieces, life is a chaotic series of unrelated events which is perhaps a reaction to the rigid society of his youth.
      Born in 1920, Fellini grew up in Mussolini's Italy. After several years as a cartoonist and humor writer for Italian magazines, Fellini began writing comedy for radio at the end of WW II before gravitating into films in the late 1940's.
      The apolitical, life is a carnival ambience of his films and his pre-femminist portrayal of women would make Fellini's films unmarketable if introduced in today's film industry.
      The Fellini Internet Fan Club is a good place to start looking at Fellini on the web.