| | 8 1/2 DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Documentary Movies, Foreign Films Videos, Recommended, Classic, Essential Cinema, Fantasy, Satire, Fantasy Worlds, Women, Surreal, Italian, Film About Film, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Showbiz, Actresses, Self Analysis | | Starring | Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara Steele, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Rosella Falk | | Director | Federico Fellini | | Composer | Nino Rota | | Director of Photography | Gianni Di Venanzo | | Producer | Angelo Rizzoli | | Screenwriter | Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi |
Federico Fellini's towering masterpiece follows burned-out celebrity director Marcello Mastroianni through a series of bizarre encounters and wild daydreams, the first of which finds him ascending into the clouds during a traffic jam. Seeking solace and rejuvenation at a remote health spa, he finds himself plagued by journalists, his producer, his mistress, and most inconvenient of all, his wife ("A Man and a Woman's" Anouk Aimee). Caught between past, present, and fantasy, he longs to make a pure and honest film while his producer goads him into shooting a big budget science fiction spectacle. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, this visually dazzling feast also stars Cla A fascinating, surreal view of a filmmaker's efforts to develop a new project, 8 1/2
stars Fellini regular Marcello Mastroianni in this semiautobiographical piece about a movie director's midlife crisis. Replete with fabulous performances and signature Fellini visual touches, it stars Anouk Aimée, Sandro Milo, and Claudia Cardinale. 8 1/2 is a touching, hilarious, and meditative viewing experience.
Federico Fellini's Oscar-nominated 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and cinema. The most autobiographical of Fellini's films, the plot of which concerns a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis, it is a career benchmark for this magnificent Italian New Wave director. Beautifully choreographed with flashbacks, dream sequences, exaggerated fantasy scenes, and magical surrealist episodes, 8 1/2 is one of the richest, most exuberant movies ever made, in the mode of Fellini's artfully abstract LA DOLCE VITA and AMARCORD.
Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is at a crisis point in his life and his work; in the opening sequence, Guido, suffocating, is caught in traffic with the windows of his car locked shut. He climbs out of the sunroof and literally rises up over the highway into the clouds, seemingly free, when he realizes there's a rope tied around his ankle that is violently pulling him back to earth. Cutting from this dream to the health spa where Guido is trying to recapture his creativity and write the screenplay for his next film, his vices become clear: Guido is self-absorbed, and he's distracted by the fabulous cast of actresses, intellectuals, and eccentrics who have joined him at the spa. Additionally he struggles with Freudian complexes about his wife (Anouk Aimée), his lover (Sandro Milo), his ideal woman (Claudia Cardinale), and his dead parents; and his repressive Catholic guilt follows him everywhere like a haunting mist. Theatrical Release: June 25, 1963.
The title marks the number of films that Fellini had made by 1963. Although 8 1/2 was actually Fellini's ninth film, his first two films were directorial collaborations: VARIETY LIGHTS (with Alberto Lattuada) and THE WHITE SHEIK (with Arturo Galea).
Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Director, Best (Original) Story and Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best (Black-and-White) Costume Design, Best Foreign Film.
This film is considered to be the favorite of Fellini fans. It is likewise heralded by critics, directors, film-buffs, and scholars as having created its own unique cinematic language. Fellini's ability to capture the frustration of a director who cannot answer the questions asked of him by a stream of actors, journalists, and agents is what most industry professionals admire about the film. For Fellini fans, it is the way that the director shows Guido's total frustration with his love life, his ego, his creative ability, and his past by leading viewers on a tour of his bizarre psyche. 8 1/2 Reviews: "...8 1/2 is the best film ever made about filmmaking....The film weaves in and out of reality and fantasy....It is a film filled to bursting with inspiration..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...The most famous screen treatise ever about the illogical undertaking of making a movie..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...The greatest mind-game movie ever..."-- Entertainment Weekly Staff, Entertainment Weekly "...[T]he ideas and texture of 8 1/2 have never ceased to be an inspiration to artists everywhere..."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere "[T]he film teems with Jungian imagery, while grappling with the alienating effects of modernity and, overall, the exasperating quest for contentment in an arbitrary and uncertain world."-- Simon Braund, Empire 8 1/2 | List Price | $19.99 (You save $4.90) | | Studio | Image Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1963 | | All Time Sales Rank |  7952  | | CD Universe Part number | 4992168 | | Catalog number | 0987 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 08, 2002 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Otto e mezzo; Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 | | Running Time | 138 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | B&W; Widescreen |
8 1/2 Movie Review  A great help to everybody
I enjoy Fellini very much, because his films are human, lyric and harmonic. It`s a great help for people who are passing threw problems, like depression. It shows a depressive movie director who stoped to have ideas for films. He finds life boring, meaningless and everybody annoying. Then, in the end, he finds the meaning of life in a very moving way. It`s realy worthwhile to watch it.
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This is an excellent movie. The characters are all enjoyable and the subject matter of the movie is quite interesting. There are some slow parts in my opinion which drop it to 4 stars for me, but the the director is a master and everything in the movie has a reason to it. Check it out!
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Awesome DVD for any lover of film
I, being a film student, LOVE this film. Don't get me wrong, it is extremely hard to watch and is downright confusing but it is just so appealing. Fellini does an excellent job of displaying his innermost feelings and turmoils through this film. The performances within the film are top notch (as with any Fellini film). I'd recommend this to anyone with a heavy interest in film or Italian cinema. This is a masterpiece.
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I started out watching italian horror films. I loved Dario Argento and Mario Bava films. These films are good but lack plot. Then I discovered fellini. 8 1/2 was the first fellini movie I saw. It changed my life. I have always wanted to be writer and movie director as long as I can remember. Origianlly I was inspired by the works of Hitchcock...he was my favorite director...that was until I was introduced to the maesto FELLINI. 8 1/2 has impaced my life in ways I can not efficiently express. I view film, storytelling, and life in general in a completely different way. This movie is mezmeriing. The first time I watched I was bored to death, however, I made myself watch it a second time and it has since become one of my all time favorite films. Every time I watch it I discover something else, a hidden meaning if you will. I speak English and the subtitles were annoying the first time I watched it but now I dont even need the subtitles because i have the entire movie memorized. It is truly a masterpiece and Fellini's best...soon followed by the dazzling JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Ben...the movie critic hahaha
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8 1/2 DVD Federico Fellini's towering masterpiece follows burned-out celebrity director Marcello Mastroianni through a series of bizarre encounters and wild daydreams, the first of which finds him ascending into the clouds during a traffic jam. Seeking solace and rejuvenation at a remote health spa, he finds himself plagued by journalists, his producer, his mistress, and most inconvenient of all, his wife ("A Man and a Woman's" Anouk Aimee). Caught between past, present, and fantasy, he longs to make a pure and honest film while his producer goads him into shooting a big budget science fiction spectacle. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, this visually dazzling feast also stars Claudia Cardinale (The Pink Panther), Barbara Steele (Black Sunday), and Rossella Falk (Modesty Blaise). Outrageous and unforgettable! 1963 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film.
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