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Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo
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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US Release Date
6/25/63
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Running Time
140 mins. (Italian)
Locations
- Cinecitta Studios, Rome, Italy
- Filacciano, Italy
- Ostia, Italy
- Rome, Italy
Language
- Italian
Box Office Total
$50,690
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1963 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Film award at the 1963 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 1963 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Film award at the 1963 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Black and White Costume Design award at the 1963 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Grand Prize award at the 1963 Moscow International Film Festival [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Black and White Art Direction award at the 1963 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1963 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Screenplay award at the 1963 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Film - Any Source award at the 1963 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
Distributor
- Cinerez
- Corinth Films
- Kino International
- Macmillan Audio Brandon
- MPI Home Video
