Martin Scorsese's Favorite 1963 Classic Officially Departs HBO Max

James Cameron's The Terminator is immensely influential on movie-making as a whole, but do you know which other film has left an even bigger stamp on cinema over the years? We're talking about a 1963 Italian-language classic that has inspired everyone from Woody Allen to Ridley Scott, and became one of Martin Scorsese's all-time favorites. It inspired a movie that served as Daniel Day-Lewis' follow-up to his Oscar-winning performance in There Will Be Blood, and was paid homage to in a sex spoof film about the inner workings of the porn industry. As you can tell, the classic's impact was felt far and wide. It's currently streaming on HBO Max in the United States, but only for a little while longer.

Directed by Federico Fellini, the film starred the iconic Marcello Mastroianni as a filmmaker riddled with self-doubt. The movie was an instant classic, emerging as both a critical and cultural hit. It won the Academy Award in the category formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film, and has since cemented itself as one of the greatest movies ever made. In the Sight & Sound poll published every 10 years, it ranked fourth on the list selected by filmmakers from around the world, including Scorsese. In his citation, the Taxi Driver director described the movie in question as "a touchstone for me, in so many ways—the freedom, the sense of invention, the underlying rigor and the deep core of longing, the bewitching, physical pull of the camera movements and the compositions... But it also offers an uncanny portrait of being the artist of the moment, trying to tune out all the pressure and the criticism and the adulation and the requests and the advice, and find the space and the calm to simply listen to oneself."