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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.
Drama. A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. Director. Federico Fellini. Writers. Federico Fellini. Ennio Flaiano. Tullio Pinelli. Stars. Marcello Mastroianni. Anouk Aimée. Claudia Cardinale. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +2. Add to Watchlist. Added by 203K users.
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.
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.
May 7, 1993 · If you were watching the 1993 Academy Awards telecast, you saw Federico Fellini at his effortless best, taking center stage and handling the crowd with more poise, humor and authority than any of the highpriced stars who surrounded him.
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.
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.
But 8 1⁄2 is so much more than the plot of a director coming to terms with the fact that he does love his wife that he's been unfaithful to or that he's in over his head in making an...
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