La Dolce Vita critic and co-founder of "Cahiers du cinéma", felt that "The New York Times" film critic Bosley Crowther praised Fellini’s Roger Ebert considered "La Dolce Vita" as Fellini’s best film, as well as his favorite film of all time and listed it consistently in his top ten films for the "Sight & Sound" Greatest Films poll every ten years. Ebert's first review for the film, written on October 4, 1961, was the first film review he wrote, before he started his career as a film critic in 1967. The film was also a touchstone for Ebert, in how his perspective of
La Vita Nuova the film, and is based on the sonnet "A ciascun'alma presa", in chapter 3 of "La Vita Nuova". Several lines from "La Vita Nuova "are heard being read from a cassette player in a zoo by the head zoo keeper in the 1982 film "Cat People". The author Allegra Goodman wrote a short story entitled "La Vita Nuova", published in the May 3, 2010 issue of "The New Yorker", in which Dante's words (in English) are interspersed throughout the piece. The final mission in the 2008 game "Devil May Cry 4", where protagonist Nero rescues his love Kyrie from the