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Corinth Films
Directed by: Federico Fellini
Featuring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, Jean Rougeul, Edra Gale
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.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
4K UHD
Blu-ray
Discs:
UHD-100 (1 Disc)
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
None (4K UHD)
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
Italian PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
2160p/24
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
HDR:
None
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Introduction, Audio Commentary, Theatrical Trailer, Short Film, Documentary, Interview, Gallery, Insert
- Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
- Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and NYU film professor 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
- An essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek
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Restoration Information
8½
Restoration by:
Cinecitta
Year: 2019
Scanned at: 4K Digital
Restored at: 4K Digital
Sources:
35mm Original camera negative
Release Notes on Restoration
8½ is presented in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Completed by Cinecitta S.p.A and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematograffe-Cineteca Nazionale for the Fellini 100 Project, this 4K restoration was created from the 35 mm original camera negative, which was made available by RTI-Mediaset and Infinity. The original monaural soundtrack was restored and remastered from the various 35 mm optical positive and negative elements by the Criterion Collection.