La Dolce Vita earned the "Palme d'Or" (Golden Palm) at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. "Entertainment Weekly" voted it the 6th Greatest film of all time. In 2010, the film was ranked #11 in "Empire" magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema". La Dolce Vita La Dolce Vita (; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life") is a 1960 Italian drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film follows Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for
La Vita Nuova Hotel", the protagonist is reading "The New Life" on a train. This reference symbolizes Lisa's desire for enlightenment at the time of her journey. A modified version of the opening line of the work's Introduction was used on the television show "" in the episode "Latent Image" (1999). The is concerned with a moral situation and Captain Janeway reads this book and leaves the Doctor to discover the poem. In the film "Hannibal", Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Inspector Pazzi see an outdoor opera in Florence based on Dante's "La Vita Nuova", called "Vide Cor Meum". This was specially composed for