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 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