CRITERION COLLECTION: 8 1/2 (1963)

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a director whose film—and life—is collapsing around him. An early working title for the film was La Bella Confusione (The Beautiful Confusion), and Fellini's masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.; ; The Criterion Collection is proud to present the 1963 Academy Award™ winner for Best Foreign-Language Film—one of the most written about, talked about and imitated movies of all time—in a beautifully restored new digital transfer. Disc Two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television Fellini: A Director's Notebook (1969). Produced by Peter Goldfarb, this 'imagined documentary' of Fellini on Fellini is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects, all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director's unique and creative process.
• Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, Roberta Valli, Deena Boyer, Giulio Calì, Mathilda Calnan, Anna Caramini, Olimpia Cavalli, Elisabetta Cini, Alfredo De Lafeld, Sebastiano De Leandro, Dina De Santis, Edward Fleming, Grazia Frasnelli, Sonia Gessner, Eva Gioia, Riccardo Guglielmi, John Karlsen, John Francis Lane, Valentina Lang, Annarosa Lattuada, Palma Mangini, Roberto Nicolosi, Polidor, Maria Raimondi, Nino Rota, Luciana Sanseverino, John Stacy, Maria Tedeschi, Flaminia Torlonia, Maria Wertmuller, Vadim Wolkowsky, Sandra Milo, Madeleine LeBeau, Caterina Boratto, Eddra Gale, Guido Alberti, Mario Conocchia, Bruno Agostini, Cesarino Miceli Picardi, Jean Rougeul, Mario Pisu, Yvonne Casadei, Ian Dallas, Mino Doro, Nadia Sanders, Georgia Simmons, Edy Vessel, Tito Masini, Annie Gorassini, Rossella Como, Mark Herron, Marisa Colomber, Neil Robinson, Elisabetta Catalano, Eugene Walter, Hazel Rogers, Gilda Dahlberg, Mario Tarchetti, Mary Indovino, Frazier Rippy, Francesco Rigamonti, Giulio Paradisi, Marco Gemini, Giuditta Rissone, Annibale Ninchi, Antonio Acqua, Gideon Bachman, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, Agnes Bonfanti, Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano
• Director: Federico Fellini
• Runtime: 2:19
• Company: Cineriz, Francinex, Corinth Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie