Episode 315: Nights of Cabiria with Adam McKay

Adam McKay, director of Step Brothers, Anchorman, The Big Short, Vice, Don't Look Up, RETURNS for a special friday episode!!! Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Adam McKay talk about Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria!!! Starring Fellini's wife and muse, Giulietta Masina, as Cabiria a role she had played in the 1952 Fellini film "The White Sheik" as well. Nights of Cabiria is Fellini's last neorealist style film, right before the surrealist avant-garde period that would create films like La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2. Some of that has to do with where Italy was, just three years after Nights of Cabiria was released, Italy would be in the Economic Miracle that created the conditions for a film like La Dolce Vita. But, we see the beginnings of that change, with Nights of Cabiria highlighting the deep inequality permeating Italian Society at this time. It was difficult to get a film made where sex workers were the protagonists, only Luigi and Dino De Laurentiis would end up financing it, and yet at the Oscars it would receive Best International Film.

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Episode 315: Nights of Cabiria with Adam McKay is an episode from Movie Night Extravaganza by Forrest Miller.

This episode is 116:36 long.

This episode was published on Jan 23, 2026.

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