1954 was a pivotal year for one of the best director-composer collaborations of all time. By that time Nino Rota, who started his film scoring career in the early 40s, had scored over 90(!) films for many Italian film directors, two of them for Fellini (The White Sheik in 1952 and I Vitelloni in 1953). However their next collaboration proved … Continue reading La Strada, by Nino Rota