68- La Strada -Director:Federico Fellini - Cast:Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart and Aldo Silvani.

"Q---The first decade of Rolling Stone,from 1967 to 1977,was arguably the greatest era in American film.

Jack Nicholson: All film,really.Because of the nature of the business,there were widely distributed foreign films.We expected to see--and did see--a different masterpiece every week.Many weeks it was more than one.It started in the art houses with La Strada,The Magnificent Seven,and went all the way through those years.We went to see who was the master this week.Satyajit Ray?Godard?Truffaut?You couldn't get a better film education than just happening to be going to the movies in that period.

Q---What films expanded your sense of what movies could be?

Jack Nicholson:The Magnificent Seven.La Strada.8 1/2.The 400 Blows.Jules and Jim.Breathless.All the Bergman movies.Kurosawa never failed.There was Resnais's Last year at Marienbad.These movies were mind-boggling.

-Jack Nicholson-on Rolling Stone magazine fortieth anniversary

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"He is enormously intuitive. He is intuitive; he is creative; he is an enormous force. He is burning inside with such heat. Collapsing. Do you understand what I mean? The heat from his creative mind, it melts him. He suffers from it; he suffers physically from it. One day when he can manage this heat and can set it free, I think he will make pictures you have never seen in your life. He is rich. As every real artist, he will go back to his sources one day. He will find his way back."

-Ingmar Bergman-on Fellini