Federico Fellini's LA DOLCE VITA (35MM) (1960) @ The Hi-Pointe!

General Admission - $11
Student/Senior - $8
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Coming SOON!
https://hipointetheatre.org/coming-soon/

September 2025
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eedlhfvuu-FVdmg56By61aJln8NqZFOk/view

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ADVANCE TICKETS:

This process does NOT get you a specific seat in the theater. If you believe an event like this might sell out though, have at it. It does allow you to make a convenient additional donation to Cinema St. Louis, if you're so inclined.

https://hipointetheatre.org/purchase/240166/

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PARKING:

The Hi-Pointe has its own parking in various places behind the theater, but in 45 years of going there, I have never used it.

After 6PM M-F, after 12PM Saturday, and ALL DAY SUNDAY, there’s plenty of FREE parking right next door HERE:

Lindell Bank
6900 Clayton Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63139
314-645-7700

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After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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Divided into seven episodes, along with a prologue, epilogue, and intermezzo, Fellini’s sixth feature as sole director cemented his position as one of Italy’s pre-eminent filmmakers. La Dolce Vita (‘The Sweet Life’) kept its Italian title when released overseas, and follows the exploits of Marcello Mastroianni’s cool, sunglasses-wearing columnist Marcello Rubini, whose work for gossip magazines finds him journeying through Rome’s nightlife and mixing with its fashionistas – minor aristocrats, socialites, movie stars, and models. Unfolding over seven days and nights, the film shifts between the heady atmosphere of non-stop parties to the cold light of reality as Rubini travels, often through the fog of alcohol consumption, between them. Recording the various women Rubini encounters and seduces, or who spurn him, is the photographer played by Walter Santesso. The character’s name, Paparazzo, soon became common parlance for all intrusive celebrity snappers.

> “A pageant of modern life and spiritual disconnection. The film that conquered the world.” – Martin Scorsese

NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has a 95% on the Tomatometer and a 90% on the Popcornmeter.

https://hipointetheatre.org/showtimes/la-dolce-vita-35mm-9-22-25-700-pm/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Dolce_Vita