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.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
- Audio commentary featuring film critics Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda
- Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a short film by Federico Fellini
- The Last Sequence, a documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½
- Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a documentary about Fellini’s longtime composer
- Interviews with actor Sandra Milo, filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
- Rare photographs from Bachmann’s collection
- Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek
New cover by Eric Skillman
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
- Audio commentary featuring film critics Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda
- Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a short film by Federico Fellini
- The Last Sequence, a documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½
- Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a documentary about Fellini’s longtime composer
- Interviews with actor Sandra Milo, filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
- Rare photographs from Bachmann’s collection
- Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Guido Anselmi
- Claudia Cardinale
- Claudia
- Anouk Aimée
- Luisa Anselmi
- Sandra Milo
- Carla
- Rossella Falk
- Rossella
- Barbara Steele
- Gloria Morin
- Jean Rougeul
- Daumier
- Eddra Gale
- La Saraghina
- Madeleine Lebeau
- Actress
- Caterina Boratto
- Beautiful woman
- Mario Pisu
- Mario Mezzabotta
- Guido Alberti
- Pace, the producer
- Annie Gorassini
- Pace’s girlfriend
- Tito Masini
- Cardinal
- Ian Dallas
- Maurice
- Mary Indovino
- Maya
- Annibale Ninchi
- Guido’s father
- Giuditta Rissone
- Guido’s mother
- Georgia Simmons
- Guido’s grandmother
- Maria Raimondi
- Nanny in white
- Marisa Colomber
- Nanny in black
- Roberta Valli
- Young girl at farmhouse
- Riccardo Guglielmi
- Guido at farmhouse
- Marco Gemini
- Guido as a schoolboy
- Yvonne Casadei
- Jacqueline Bonbon
- Elisabetta Catalano
- Luisa’s sister
- Mark Herron
- Enrico
- Mario Conocchia
- Conocchia
- Cesarino Miceli Picardi
- Cesarino
- Eva Gioia
- Cesarino’s “niece”
- Dina De Santis
- Cesarino’s “niece”
- Bruno Agostini
- Bruno Agostini
- Hazel Rogers
- Black dancer
- Hedy Vessel
- Hedy, the model
- Roberto Nicolosi
- Doctor
- Eugene Walter
- American journalist
- Gilda Dahlberg
- American journalist’s wife
- Mino Doro
- Claudia’s agent
- Mario Tarchetti
- Claudia’s press agent
Credits
- Director
- Federico Fellini
- Produced by
- Angelo Rizzoli
- Story by
- Federico Fellini
- Story by
- Ennio Flaiano
- Screenplay by
- Federico Fellini
- Screenplay by
- Tullio Pinelli
- Screenplay by
- Ennio Flaiano
- Screenplay by
- Brunello Rondi
- Cinematography
- Gianni di Venanzo
- Cameraman
- Pasquale de Santis
- Assistant cameraman
- Tazio Secchiaroli
- Art director
- Piero Gherardi
- Music
- Nino Rota
- Sound
- Mario Faraoni
- Sound
- Alberto Bartolomei
- Editor
- Leo Catozzo
- Production supervisor
- Clemente Fracassi
- Production director
- Nello Meniconi
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