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 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.
| Guido Anselmi | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Bruno Agostini | Bruno Agostini |
| Carla | Sandra Milo |
| Luisa Anselmi | Anouk Aimée |
| Gloria Morin | Barbara Steele |
| The Beautiful Woman | Caterina Boratto |
| Claudia | Claudia Cardinale |
| Producer | Angelo Rizzoli |
| Cinematography | Gianni Di Venanzo |
| Screenplay | Ennio Flaiano, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi |
| Music | Nino Rota |
| Director | Federico Fellini |
| Production design | Piero Gherardi |
| Editing | Leo Cattozzo |
| Sound | Alberto Bartolomei and Mario Faraoni |
By December 03, 2001
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September 16, 2010
You may not know the name, but you know the face. Caterina Boratto, known for her indelible performances in such Italian cinema classics as 8½, Juliet of the Spirits, and Salò, or the 120 Days . . . Read more »
September 01, 2010
Starting today at London’s BFI Southbank, the legendary Italian composer Nino Rota will be honored with a monthlong retrospective of films that feature his magisterial music. Rota is probably best . . . Read more »
October 22, 2009
Starting today, Paris is catching Fellini fever. The Cinémathèque française, the Jeu de Paume museum, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris are joining forces to pay an extended tribute to . . . Read more »
By September 17, 2010
This has been a luminous year for the world-renowned Toronto International Film Festival, now in its thirty-fifth edition—and not only because of the high quality of the films. When the ten-day event . . . Read more »
November 02, 2008
It’s all things Quantum of Solace these days, with the latest in the Bond franchise opening next week. And Newsweek took the opportunity to ask Swiss director Marc Forster what his film influences . . . Read more »
