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8 1/2

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Awards

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Art Direction-Set Direction

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Director

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Writing, Screenplay and Story

Academy Awards 1963 - Won - Best Costume Design, Black and White

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Art Direction-Set Direction

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Director

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Writing, Screenplay and Story

Academy Awards 1963 - Won - Best Costume Design, Black and White

Academy Awards 1963-Won-Best Foreign Language Film

BAFTA Awards 1964 - Nominated - Best Film From Any Source

Moscow International Film Festival 1963 - Won - Grand Prix

NYFCC Awards 1963 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film

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8 1/2

Director:
Federico Fellini
138 Minutes
 

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One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e Mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a director whose film - and life - is collapsing around him. An early working title for the film was La Bella Confusione (The Beautiful Confusion), and Fellini's masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. This 1963 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign - Language Film - is one of the most written about, talked about, and imitated movies of all time. Disc two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television, Fellini: A Director's Notebook (1969). Produced by Peter Goldfarb, this imagined documentary of Fellini is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects, all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director's unique and creative process.

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Runtime:
138 min.

Genres:
Drama
Foreign Language

Country:
ITALY

Language:
Italian

Color:
Black & White

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SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • Disc One
  • New digital transfer of restored film elements, enhanced for 16x9 televisions, with digital image restoration
  • 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
  • 22 page booklet featuring essays by Fellini, longtime Fellini collaborator and critic Tullio Kezich, and film professor and author Alexander Sesonske
  • Theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitles
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual - layer edition
  • Disc Two
  • Fellini: A Director's Notebook, a 52 - minute film by Federico Fellini
  • Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a compelling 48 - minute documentary about the maestro behind the music of Fellini's films
  • Interviews with actress Sandra Milo, director Lina Wertmuller, whose career began on the set of 8 1/2, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who discusses the revolutionary art of Gianni di Venanzo
  • Rare photographs from the collection of Gideon Bachmann
  • Gallery of behind - the - scenes and production photos
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual - layer edition

 

 

 

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