Details

8½ 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Pre-Order - Release Date: 10.12.2024

Original title: Otto e mezzo

Year: 1963
Country: Italy / France
Region Code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: A
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515306119

Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)

HDR: -

Audio: Italian - Uncompressed Bun

Subtitles: English

Rating: Not Rated

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee

Director: Federico Fellini


Synopsis:

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, throughout 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.

Extras:

• 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
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek