8½ 4K UHD/Blu-Ray

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: 4K UHD
Year: 1963
Director: Federico Fellini
Genre: Drama
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Claudia Cardinale
Runtime: 138
Language: Italian
Release Date: 2024-12-10


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