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8 1/2 - Special Edition


Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and
cinema. The most autobiographical of Fellini's films, this surreal motion picture tells of a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is floating in a midpoint with his life and his work; in the opening sequence, Guido, suffocating, is caught in traffic with the windows of his car locked shut. He climbs out of the sunroof and literally rises up over the highway into the clouds, seemingly free, when he realizes there's a rope tied around his ankle that is violently pulling him back to earth. He struggles with complexes about his wife (Anouk Aimée), his lover (Sandro Milo), his ideal woman (Claudia Cardinale), and his dead parents; and his guilt follows him like a haunting mist. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, and Sandra Milo. Madeleine Le Beau, and Rossella Falk.

DVD Special Edition - The Criterion Collection

Disc One

  • New digital 16x9 transfer of a restoration done by the Cinema Forever project at Mediaset
  • Screen specific audio essay featuring commentary by film critic and Fellini friend, Gideon Bachmann, NYU professor of Film Antonio Monda, with excerpts from Fellini's interviews and letters and Deena Boyler's on set diary
  • Introduction by Terry Gilliam, director of Brazil and 12 Monkeys
  • Extensive booklet featuring essays by Fellini, Monda and longtime Fellini collaborator and critic Tullio Kezich
  • Theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • Digital image restoration
  • Optimal image quality: RDSL dual layer edition

Disc Two

  • Fellini: A Director's Notebook
  • Nina Rota; Between Cinema and Concert, a documentary about the maestro behind the music of Fellini's films
  • Interviews with actress Sandra Milo "Carte", director Lina Wertmuller whose career began on the set of 8 ½ and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who discusses the revolutionary art of Gianni Venenzo
  • Extensive stills gallery
  • Optimal image quality: RDSL dual layer edition


Curator's Comments:
Read Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.

Director: Federico Fellini
Black & White
135 minutes
Released: 1963
Rated: NR

Country: Italy
Lauguage: Italian (English subtitles available)
Genre: Drama

 

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