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8½
DramaFantasy
With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Also featured is Fellini’s rarely seen first film for television, Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969). Produced by Peter Goldfarb, this “imagined documentary” of Fellini on Fellini is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects, all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director’s unique creative process.
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STARS...........: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale
DIRECTOR........: Federico Fellini
WRITERS.........: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, B.Rondi
GENRE...........: Drama
METACRITIC......: 93/82
TOMATOMETER.....: 97/92
IMDB SCORE......: 8.0
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801
RUNTIME.........: 2h 19mn
SIZE............: 10.2GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) SDR
BITRATE.........: 10000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040 [Downscale]
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: Italian FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary with Tanya Zaicon, Gideon Bachmann, Antonio Monda
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion UHD Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2025-06-11
CHECKSUM........: CD435FCD00C2225772BFD4A30F89D6DD
Extras
• Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
• Fellini: A Director’s Notebook [Criterion DVD]
• The Last Sequence, a new 52-minute documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½.
• Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a compelling 48-minute documentary about Fellini’s longtime composer.
• Interviews with actress Sandra Milo, director Lina Wertmuller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.
• Rare photographs from Bachmann’s collection.
• Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos.
• Commentary featuring actress Tanya Zaicon, film critic Gideon Bachmann and NYU film professor Antonio Monda.
• U.S. theatrical trailer