Amiably spiking all criticism through a gloomy scriptwriter mouthpiece, Fellini pulls a multitude of rabbits out of the showman's hat.
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06/24/06
8 1/2 (1963)
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Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 31 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Synopsis: Federico Fellini's Oscar-nominated 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and cinema. The most autobiographical of Fellini's films, the plot of which concerns a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis, it is a career benchmark for this magnificent Italian New Wave... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Mario Pisu, Barbara Steele
Director: Federico Fellini
Screenwriter: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
Composer: Nino Rota
Screenwriter: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
Composer: Nino Rota
Reviews
Top Critic
he effect is sometimes confusing -- but always beautiful -- and eventually intertwines to a singular life-confirming realisation that cuts through the madness and embraces it.
04/26/01
Top Critic
It's Fellini's last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did.
07/09/07
Here is the author-director picture par excellence, an exciting, stimulating, monumental creation.
07/09/07
Top Critic
Fellini's manic, larger-than-life 8 1/2 rules as the king of all Italian movies.
08/29/05
Fellini was so incredibly creative that when he was mentally blocked, he turned his inner struggle into a phenomenal masterpiece of introspection.
05/20/05
Fellini's flights into the surreal are his self-examination and confession. Alas, unlike Bergman, his confession is without moral rigor; he wants to be indulged, not absolved.
11/22/04
Here is a piece of entertainment that will really make you sit up straight and think, a movie endowed with the challenge of a fascinating intellectual game.
05/20/03
Top Critic
8 1/2 is widely regarded as Federico Fellini’s masterpiece, though it is an abstract admittance of failure. (The film, however, has few faults it does not itself admit – a benefit of a film containing its own critic).
01/28/03
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