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Marcello Mastroianni,
Claudia Cardinale,
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Federico Fellini
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: Foreign, Italy, Criterion Collection
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Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken. He finds himself harangued by producers, his wife, and his mistress while he struggles to find the inspiration to finish his film. The stress plunges Guido into an interior world where fantasy and memory impinge on reality. Fellini jumbles narrative logic by freely cutting from flashbacks to dream sequences to the present until it becomes impossible to pry them apart, creating both a psychological portrait of Guido's interior world and the surrealistic, circus-like exterior world that came to be known as "Felliniesque." 8 1/2 won an Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, as well as the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival, and was one of the most influential and commercially successful European art movies of the 1960s, inspiring such later films as Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979), Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and even Lucio Fulci's Italian splatter film Un Gatto nel Cervello (1990). ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Special features: - Screen-specific audio essay featuring commentary by film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and NYU Professor of Film Antonio Monda
- Introduction by Terry Gilliam, director of BRAZIL and 12 MONKEYS
- Theatrical trailer
Four essays - Criterion site
Great Movies essay - Roger Ebert
You might also enjoy:
Amarcord
Another semiautobiographical Fellini classic came later in his filmography
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Sprawling documentary on Fellini's favorite alter ego/actor
Stardust Memories
Woody Allen's own surreal, narcisstic tale of a filmmaker; any similarity to Fellini is purely uncoincidental
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| Fellini Fans: Rent this 8 1/2 Bonus Disk
by MJordan
October 18, 2004 - 10:27 AM PDT
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| *Director's Notebook* film by Fellini, good Nino Rota documentary and a fabulous interview with Sandra Milo. |
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