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Rome at the Movies
Rome's local film industry took off in the 1950s, but the city has long served as an in-
spiration to film-makers, while its films have helped cement the legend of Rome.
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Most iconic are
Roman Holiday
(1953) and Federico Fellini's
La Dolce Vita
(The
Sweet Life; 1960), starring Marcello Mastroianni, which saw Anita Ekberg splash into
cinematic history via the Trevi Fountain. Fellini's
Roma
(1972) is an impressionistic
collage, part autobiography, and part riff on contemporary Rome, which features an
unforgettable Vatican fashion show with roller-skating prelates swirling red, satin
robes and fierce nuns wearing headdresses with giant wings.
Three Coins in the Foun-
tain
(1954) was a cheesy romance that spawned a great song and the tradition of toss-
ing coins into the Trevi Fountain.
More recently Rome has looked bewitchingly beautiful, if surreal, in Peter Green-
away's
Belly of an Architect
(1987), which opens with a dinner party scene set in
