| |  | DVD : 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection |  | | | | | | | | | |
List Price:$39.95
Our Price: $29.99
You Save: $9.96 (25%)
Prices subject to change.
Availability:Usually ships in 24 hours
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780021990
ISBN: 0780021991
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 04, 2001
Running Time: 138 minutes
Sales Rank: 4455
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: June 25, 1963
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Description:
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 is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects, all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director's unique and creative process.
Amazon.com essential video:
Federico Fellini's 1963 semi-autobiographical story about a worshipped filmmaker who has lost his inspiration is still amesmerizing mystery tour that has been quoted (Woody Allen's StardustMemories, Paul Mazursky's Alex in Wonderland) but never duplicated. Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido, a director trying to relax a bit in the wake of his latest hit. Besieged by people eager to work with him, however, he also strugglesto find his next idea for a film. The combined pressures draw him withinhimself, where his recollections of significant events in his life and the many lovers he has left behind begin to haunt him. The marriage of Fellini'shyperreal imagery, dreamy sidebars, and the gravity of Guido's increasing guiltand self-awareness make this as much a deeply moving, soulful film as it isan electrifying spectacle. Mastroianni is wonderful in the lead, his woozy sensitivity to Guido's freefall both touching and charming--all themore so as the character becomes increasingly divorced from the celebrity hypethat ultimately outpaces him. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Delightful Confusion.....
"The movie business is macabre.Grotesque.It is a combination of a football game and a brothel".Fellini, from the book Fellini on Fellini.
Round and round we go with this film, one of the greatest films ever made, one of my top 10 films, and arguably Fellini's greatest work, or close to it (La Dolce Vita is as good as this one).It's the film where Fellini went into surrealism and dreams and never went back.It's also one of the greatest films ever made about filmmaking and the ... Read More
Rating:  - Classic, but not quite great
8½ is suffused with the fictive childhood memories of Fellini's onscreen doppelganger, Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), which- if the DVD experts on Fellini, and those I've scanned in gathering background information, are correct- are merely Fellini's own true memories transferred to film. They can result in some interesting themes and scenes for the film, but often, most manifestly in the Saraghina and Cardinal digressions, they make far too much of points that could more easily and poetically ... Read More
Rating: - The Last Great Fellini Film
After 8 films, having acquired the status of an Italian icon (a much criticized one, of course, as with all Italian icons, which Italians - and Italo-Americans like me - take particular joy in tearing down) and overwhelming international fame, Fellini felt himself trapped, boxed in by demands and expectations and unable to create.So he shattered the box, threw away his script and wrote this outrageous, self regarding, egoistic, surreal and utterly brilliant meditation on ....himself!His predicament, ... Read More
Rating: - Italian Film Classic
Excellent Film by Fellini.A bit of a break from Italian Neo-Realism, but it works and it must be seen numerous times in order to get further into the meaning of what he is projecting or attempting to get across to the audience.
Rating: - Beautifully honest depiction of ones struggle to create...
Federico Fellini's `8 ½' is a film about film.It carries the very essence of art in it's most entrancing form and delivers a beautiful interpretation of the glories as well as the tragedies of creating that said art.I think that may be why `8 ½' is considered to be one of the finest films ever made, because it truly fleshes out the angels and demons involved in getting a directors vision off the ground.It attacks the distress and anguish over desiring to create something meaningful and original without ... Read More
8 1/2 - Criterion Collection | | | |
| | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | 
2004-2007 Copyright © , All right reserved.
the website powered by web hosting. |
|
|
