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81⁄2 (Italian title: Otto e mezzo, pronounced [ˈɔtto e mˈmɛddzo]) is a 1963 comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini.
May 28, 2000 · "8 1/2" is the best film ever made about filmmaking. It is told from the director's point of view, and its hero, Guido ( Marcello Mastroianni ), is clearly intended to represent Fellini.
Plot Overview. Guido Anselmi, a forty-three-year-old film director, visits a fashionable health spa, seeking treatment for his liver trouble. A number of people from the film industry, however, have followed him there in preparation for the production of his next film.
At its most basic, "8 1/2" (a.k.a. "Otto e mezzo") concerns Guido, a film director (supposedly a surrogate for Fellini himself), who is having what amounts to a midlife crisis. Guido is frustrated in his film-making, and by his relations with other people in his life.
May 7, 1993 · This film gives us the rocket set, a tower to nowhere, and ends at dusk with a sad circus parade, the clowns leading all of the people in Guido's life around and around in circles. Thirty years after Fellini made "8 1/2," films like this have grown rare.
Otto e mezzo (1963; 8 1/2) is among Fellini’s most widely praised films and earned the director his third Oscar for best foreign film. Entitled 8 1/2 for the number of films Fellini had made by that time (seven features and two shorts), it shows a…. Read More.
8 1/2 is a witty self-reference to Fellini's own career; the film being technically his eighth-and-a-half after seven features and two short segments for compilation films.
8 1/2 (English Subtitled) 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 turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.
Location scenes filmed in Rome, Filacciano, and Ostia, Italy. Opened in Rome in February 1963 as 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo); running time: 140 min. Prerelease running time: 188 min. Also known as Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. Actress Yvonne Casadei is also known as Jacqueline Bonbon.
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.
