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8 1/2
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- 8 1/2
- (OTTO E MEZZO)
- 1963, Federico Fellini, Italy, 138 min.
- With Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Claudia Cardinale
“The best film ever made about filmmaking.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“It’s Fellini’s last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
“It’s Fellini’s last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fellini’s epic dive into the psyche of a film director earned him five Academy Award nominations, two Oscars, and the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and entered the annals of film history as one of those iconic works that never ceases to reverberate through each new generation of filmmakers. Holed up in a spa with a creative block, director Guido (Mastroianni) sinks into a hallucinatory reverie. His life revolves around him on a grand scale like one of his own productions, starring madonnas and whores, priests and patriarchs, confessors and castigators, in a surreal carnival of carnal longing, Catholic guilt, and monumental machismo. Like nothing else, and a must-see in this new 35mm print. In Italian with English subtitles. (BS)
