Satyricon (1969)

This film is normally referred to as "Fellini's Satyricon" to differentiate it from Polidoro's film of the previous year. I've not seen that one but I doubt it could be as surreal a phantasmagoria as this one.  Working from the fragments of the ancient Latin novella, Fellini has constructed an elaborate dreamworld full of homoerotic imagery and grotesque tableaux.  The movie is a series of vignettes in which there are occasionally tales within tales which makes for rather disjointed viewing and a test of one's patience over the two hour plus running time.  However as one of the great visual masters of cinema, Fellini's extravagances deserve the attention of any one who is really interested in film as art.