REVIEWED - LA DOLCE VITA: Fellini's delicious wallow in the world of celebrity journalism took over from Bergman's The Seventh Seal as the quintessential European art-house movie on its release in 1960. Since then, derided for being a little too fond of the milieu it satirises and punished for the unforgivable sin of not being 8 ½, La Dolce Vita has rather fallen out of fashion.

Re-issued in a lovely new print, the film deserves to be reappraised as an epic fantasy, whose social perspicacity remains valuable, but whose main virtues are its timeless representations of guilt, doubt and professional compromise. Do we also need to mention that the film gave the world the word 'paparazzi' and that the Trevi fountain sequence retains its iconic power?