Beyond La Dolce Vita!

Beyond La Dolce Vita!

Famous Italian film director Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita immortalized the nightclubs and paparazzi of the city's Hollywood-on-the-Tiber era. The era Fellini put on film is long gone, but Rome's film industry is experiencing a renaissance. Home to Cinecittà—one of the world's largest film studios in one of the most favored climates—Rome is often the choice location for international film productions, such as Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic, JJ Abrams' Mission Impossible III, Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Twelve, and Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, not to mention the infamous HBO/BBC Production's series Rome. It's not unusual to see Owen Wilson grabbing drinks in Piazza Navona or George Clooney at the Hotel de Russie during a break in production. What's more, the presence of so many actors in the city has also reinvigorated the city's theater productions.