8 1/2 | Federico Fellini

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Also featured is 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 creative process.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

★ New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
★ One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
★ Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
★ Audio commentary featuring film critics Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda
★ Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a short film by Federico Fellini
★ The Last Sequence, a documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½
★ Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a documentary about Fellini’s longtime composer
★ Interviews with actor Sandra Milo, filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
★ Rare photographs from Bachmann’s collection
★ Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos

Film Details

Italy, France
1963
138 minutes
Black & White
1.85:1
Italian
Spine #140

New cover by Eric Skillman