Federico Fellini

 
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  • Italy, France
  • 1963
  • 138 minutes
  • Black and White
  • 1.85:1
  • English, French, German, Italian

SYNOPSIS: 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 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.

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Cast

Guido AnselmiMarcello Mastroianni
Bruno AgostiniBruno Agostini
CarlaSandra Milo
Luisa AnselmiAnouk Aimée
Gloria MorinBarbara Steele
The Beautiful WomanCaterina Boratto
ClaudiaClaudia Cardinale

Credits

ProducerAngelo Rizzoli
CinematographyGianni Di Venanzo
ScreenplayEnnio Flaiano, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi
MusicNino Rota
DirectorFederico Fellini
Production designPiero Gherardi
EditingLeo Cattozzo
SoundAlberto Bartolomei and Mario Faraoni

Disc Features

  • High-definition digital transfer of restored film elements (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on Blu-ray edition)
  • Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
  • Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and NYU film professor Antonio Monda
  • High-definition digital transfer of a new restoration of Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini
  • The Last Sequence, a new 52-minute documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for (available on Blu-ray edition)
  • Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a compelling 48-minute documentary about Fellini’s longtime composer
  • Interviews with actress Sandra Milo, director Lina Wertmüller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
  • Rare photographs from Bachmann’s collection
  • Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos
  • U.S. theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring writings by Fellini and essays by critics Tullio Kezich and Alexander Sesonske

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Film Essays

8 1/2: A Film with Itself as Its Subject

By Alexander SesonskeDecember 03, 2001

8 1/2: a bizarre and puzzling title, but one precisely appropriate for this film which announces in its first frame that modernism has reached the cinema Read more »

8 1/2: When “He” Became “I”

By Tullio KezichDecember 03, 2001

The typical mid-life crisis, to which we all fall victim in some major or minor degree, came to Fellini with a slight delay. On the 20th of January, 1960, the day of his Read more »

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