8 1/2 with Marcello Mastroianni: DVD Cover

    8 1/2
    a.k.a. Eight and a Half, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, Otto e mezzo Director: Federico Fellini Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/08/2002
    • Original Release: 1963
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 11,523

    Viewer Rating: (6 ratings)

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    Still gallery; Press book

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Come Into the Light [5:32]
    2. A Walk in the Park [7:00]
    3. Meeting Carla [7:28]
    4. Mother and Father [4:09]
    5. Actors and Actresses [11:31]
    6. Amusing the Bores [12:50]
    7. A Hardworking Production Office [12:23]
    8. Saraghina and the Rhumba [7:56]
    9. The Bathhouse [3:18]
    10. Luisa [1:31]
    11. Doubts, Suspicions and Worries [4:37]
    12. All My Mistresses [10:23]
    13. The Final Performance [13:39]
    14. Screen Tests [5:31]
    15. Claudia [7:49]
    16. In Business [6:07]
    17. Out of Business [4:55]
    18. Directing to the End [5:05]
    19. End Credits [3:57]

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    Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken. He finds himself harangued by producers, his wife, and his mistress while he struggles to find the inspiration to finish his film. The stress plunges Guido into an interior world where fantasy and memory impinge on reality. Fellini jumbles narrative logic by freely cutting from flashbacks to dream sequences to the present until it becomes impossible to pry them apart, creating both a psychological portrait of Guido's interior world and the surrealistic, circus-like exterior world that came to be known as "Felliniesque." 8 1/2 won an Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, as well as the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival, and was one of the most influential and commercially successful European art movies of the 1960s, inspiring such later films as Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979), Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and even Lucio Fulci's Italian splatter film Un Gatto nel Cervello (1990). Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

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    One Fellini Film that falls flat . . .by vmwrites

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    March 09, 2009: I've become a bigger fan of Federico Fellini, but not because of this film. While the film drones on for what seems like forever, the audience follows the trials and tribulations of the director/producer of a proposed film. That is, the movie is a film about film . . . confused?

    Well, add to this Fellini's penchant for symbolism, and you end up with an almost Bergmanesque montage that just won't go away. I've loved film for years, but one of the greatest attributes of a film is its evanescence. A good movie should appear, present its story/philosophy/plot, then get out of the way.

    Like a lengthy infomercial, 8-1/2 seems to go on and on and on, while the audience is subjected to Fellini's dream sequences, fantasy characters, and a psychoanalysis of Mastroianni's character.

    For cinemaphiles who have been this route before, suffice it to say that I would rather sit through Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" three times, than try to endure 8-1/2 again . . .

    This review was written about the DVD Black & White / Wide Screen / Dolby 5.1 / Mono edition.

    I Also Recommend: Le Notti di Cabiria, The Road.

    Overlong but enjoyable.by Anonymous

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    April 16, 2003: In 8 1/2, Fellini had created an abstract composition --a making of a film within a film. Mercello (Fellini's alter-ego) is commissioned to make a film; altho (like in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories) he wants the film to have ''meaning.'' He doesn't want his pics to cater to general moviegoers, an interesting foreshadow of the US movie industry today --altho Fellini didn't specifically intend this. A nice yet overlong climax where Fellini represents life as a circus. Altho an amusing film,it is extremely difficult to watch Fellini's masterwork. It took me several viewings to enjoy (& understand ) this film. But like many great cinematic works, several viewings are necessary. Therefore, we can distingush from what we call a film to a movie; respectively, education from entertainment. Not to say that 8 1/2 was simply pedagogic. A lot of humorous anecdotes make there way in this picture. But movie people would feel awkward watching a film like 8 1/2. Unless, you are a ''cinema'' buff. . . give it a try.

    This review was written about the DVD Black & White / Wide Screen / Dolby 5.1 / Mono edition.