(Federico Fellini, Italy 1970, 129 min., Italian/subtitles)

In perhaps the most spectacular of his late-period spectacles, Fellini serves a buffet of grotesque carnival excess. Loosely adapted from Petronious’s lurid ancient-Rome farrago, Fellini Satyricon freely follows the alternatingly bloody and randy adventures of the young poet Encolpius (Martin Potter), whose desperate infatuation with an androgynous piece of jailbait (Max Born) gets him in all kinds of trouble.