Some weird fuckin' shit went down on the way to the Forum

Fellini Satyricon

(1969)

Not sure I'd call this orgiastic picaresque fever dream a great or even a good film, but I'd unhesitatingly call it an astonishing one, and a unique one. Not surprised to recognize influences on BBC's I, Claudius or HBO's Rome orBob Guccione's Caligula or even Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, but I wasn't expecting to see sources for both Brando's Don Corleone (Mario Romagnoli [or, as credited, Il Moro]'s Trimalchio) and Carmine Coppola's Godfather theme (heard only twice, a brief but unmistakable phrase from Nino Rota).