Roger Ebert, while recanting his original statement that the film was a masterpiece (he ranked the film 10th in his 10 Best Films of 1969 list), nonetheless gave it a high retrospective rating and wrote, "It is so much more ambitious and audacious than most of what we see today that simply as a reckless gesture, it shames these timid times." For Archer Winston of the New York Post, the film's classical background in Petronius was fused into "a powerful contemporary parallel. It is so beautifully composed and imagined that you would do yourself a disservice if, for any reason, you allowed yourself to miss it". Fellini biographer Parker Tyler declared it "the most profoundly homosexual movie in all history". The film holds a 76% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. See also List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film List of submissions to the 42nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film References Bibliography Alpert, Hollis (1988). Fellini: A Life. New York: Paragon House. Bondanella, Peter (1992). The Cinema of Federico Fellini, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Fava, Claudio, and Aldo Vigano (1990). The Films of Federico Fellini. New York: Citadel. Kezich, Tullio (2006). Fellini: His Life and Work. New York: Faber and Faber. Snyder, Stephen (1976). "Color, Growth, and Evolution in Fellini Satyricon" in Federico Fellini: Essays in Criticism (ed. Peter Bondanella), 168 Further reading Fellini, Federico (1988). Comments on Film. Ed. G. Grazzini (trans. Joseph Henry). California State University at Fresno. — (1970). Fellini Satyricon, ed. Dario Zanelli, New York: Ballantine. Frantz, Gilda (1970). "'Fellini Satyricon'". in: Psychological Perspectives, Volume 1, n° 2, Autumn 1970, pp. 157–161. Hughes, Eileen Lanouette (1971). On the Set of 'Fellini Satyricon': A Behind-the-Scenes Diary, New York: Morrow. Prats, Arnando José (1979). "The Individual, the World and the Life of Myth in 'Fellini Satyricon'". in: South Atlantic Bulletin, Band 44, n° 2, May 1979, pp. 45–58. Betti, Liliana (1970). Federico A.C.: disegni per il 'Satyricon' di Federico Fellini, Milan: Libri Edizioni. Sütterlin, Axel (1996). Petronius Arbiter und Federico Fellini. Ein strukturanalytischer Vergleich, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag Documentary Bachmann, Gideon. Ciao Federico: Fellini directs Satyricon. A "making-of" filmed during the 1968 production. External links Fellini Satyricon: Not Just Friends an essay by Michael Wood at the Criterion Collection 1969 films 1969 drama films 1969 LGBT-related films Italian drama