Toby Dammit

Toby Dammit (1968) ★★★ [Histoires extraordinaires]

Histoires extraordinaires, a horror anthology film, features three stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by European directors Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini.

"Cut out the first two segments and you've got a great Fellini film. -David Ross, imdb"

The film received a mixed critical reception, with the Fellini segment widely regarded as the best of the three. Reviewing the picture under its English language title Spirits of the Dead, Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that "Toby Dammit, the first new Fellini to be seen here since Juliet of the Spirits in 1965, is marvelous: a short movie but a major one. --- The Fellini segment, which shares so little with its source in Poe that it could almost be considered an original piece, is notable for its visual and thematic similarities to three earlier Fellini masterworks. The disintegrating protagonist and the hellish celebrity demimonde he inhabits are reminiscent of both La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2, while the interweaving of dreams and hallucinations into the plotline and the use of highly artificial art direction to reflect inner states resemble similar techniques used in 8 1/2 and Juliet of the Spirits." -Wikipedia

Available on Youtube in five parts. Or you can use the Fellini filmography torrent.