Listen: I think about NIGHTS OF CABIRIA at least once a day . . . and whenever I picture Cabiria in my mind I almost start to cry. I’m serious! I just love her and want her to be happy!!

If you have never seen it, you have to. My friend Amissa once sent it to me in the mail and said: “This is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.” Foolishly I did not watch it right away . . . I finally got around to it during the pandemic. And during the closing scene, out of nowhere I started bawling. It just came upon me at that moment and surprised me. I was deeply moved by it, OK?

Look, it’s even in my LETTERBOXD TOP FOUR (!):

In Roger Ebert’s review of Cabiria, he ended it with this:

Of all his characters, Fellini once said, Cabiria was the only one he was still worried about. In 1992, when Fellini was given an honorary career Oscar, he looked down from the podium to Masina sitting in the front row and told her not to cry. The camera cut to her face, showing her smiling bravely through her tears, and there was Cabiria.