funkyduck, "La Dolce Vita" IS about that innocent girl on the beach we hardly ever see! That was the embodyment of the life Marcello would have led if he had followed his original path from "I Vitelloni."

Best moment for me is Toto watching "his film" left to him by Alfredo in "Cinema Paradiso"
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Mifune falling to his knees - weeping - during the climatic fight scene in "Seven Samurai"
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the little crippled girl with the "coke bottle" glasses looking up at Bruno Ganz in "Wings of Desire"
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