This list includes the best films I have seen from Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece—or those I consider to be the one hundred best on a particular day. The list is chronological, except that multiple entries for a given year appear in order of preference. The list considers films through 2006. (Some of the films […]

This is the second half of the list. 1969 51. FELLINI SATYRICON. Inspired by Petronius, Federico Fellini’s Fellini Satyricon followed the swank and soap opera of La dolce vita (1959) and the vacancy of 8½ (1963), in which a filmmaker who has just had a stupendous hit—read in La dolce vita—is given lots of money […]