La Dolce Vita (1960)

STORY: A journalist mixes in modern Roman high society and is alternately bewitched and sickened by what he sees.

REVIEW: Episodic satirical melodrama, a marathon self-indulgent wallow with a wagging finger never far away. Full of choice moments such as a statue of Christ being flown by helicopter over the city.

B.O.M. RATING: ★★★★★

ADJUSTED US GROSS: $174,240,000 (in 2016 USD)

US BOX OFFICE WEEKLY RANK: 3

CAST: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Alain Cuny

DIRECTOR: Federico Fellini

❝An awesome picture, licentious in content but moral and vastly sophisticated in its attitude and what it says❞ – Bosley Crowther, New York Times

Complete US Box Office Charts (week-by-week)
from Variety magazine are available here:
https://www.amazon.com/Weekly-Box-Office-Charts-1960s-ebook/dp/B071GM8FLZ/

US Box Office – 2 August 1961

1 2 6 THE GUNS OF NAVARONE Gregory Peck, David Niven
2 1 5 FANNY Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier
3 3 15 LA DOLCE VITA Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg
4 6 7 THE PARENT TRAP Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara
5 5 2 TAMMY TELL ME TRUE Sandra Dee, John Gavin
6 4 5 THE NAKED EDGE Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr
7 NE 3 VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine
8 9 3 FRANCIS OF ASSISI Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart
9 7 43 SPARTACUS Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
10 NE 5 GOODBYE AGAIN Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand

Complete US Box Office Charts (week-by-week)
from Variety magazine are available here:
https://www.amazon.com/Weekly-Box-Office-Charts-1960s-ebook/dp/B071GM8FLZ/