Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) is an Italian classic, a snapshot of empty lives in Rome at the end of the 1950s and the film which gave the world the word "paparazzi". From 1952 to 1976, Nino Rota wrote the music for 16 Fellini productions; his score for La Dolce Vita grew organically out of jazz. The result is a swinging, lyrical, wistful sound, the main theme alternately rousing and tender...