Fellini Satyricon [Criterion Collection] [2 Discs]

"Federico Fellini's intent with Fellini Satyricon was not to bring Rome to task, but to draw parallels between the libertinism of the Eternal City and the hippie culture of the 1960s. Martin Potter plays Encolpius, a young Roman student who spends the early portions of the film battling with his friend Ascyltus (Hiram Keller, a veteran of the Broadway musical Hair) over the affections of androgynous youth Giton (Max Born). Ascyltus wins, whereupon Encolpius embarks upon a hallucinatory odys...