8 1/2 (DVD) (The Criterion Collection) (US Version) DVD Region 1

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 director. Beautifully choreographed with flashbacks, dream sequences, exaggerated fantasy scenes, and magical surrealist episodes, 8 1/2 is one of the richest, most exuberant movies ever made, in the mode of Fellini's artfully abstract LA DOLCE VITA and AMARCORD. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is at a crisis point in his life and his work; in the opening sequence, Guido, suffocating, is caught in traffic with the windows of his car locked shut. He climbs out of the sunroof and literally rises up over the highway into the clouds, seemingly free, when he realizes there's a rope tied around his ankle that is violently pulling him back to earth. Cutting from this dream to the health spa where Guido is trying to recapture his creativity and write the screenplay for his next film, his vices become clear: Guido is self-absorbed, and he's distracted by the fabulous cast of actresses, intellectuals, and eccentrics who have joined him at the spa. Additionally he struggles with Freudian complexes about his wife (Anouk Aimée), his lover (Sandro Milo), his ideal woman (Claudia Cardinale), and his dead parents; and his repressive Catholic guilt follows him everywhere like a haunting mist.

"...8 1/2 is the best film ever made about filmmaking....The film weaves in and out of reality and fantasy....It is a film filled to bursting with inspiration..." - Roger, Ebert (Critic and screenwriter), Chicago Sun-Times, 05/28/2000

"...The most famous screen treatise ever about the illogical undertaking of making a movie..." - Mike, Clark (USA Today Critic), USA Today, 12/28/2001

"...The greatest mind-game movie ever..." - Entertainment Weekly Staff (Entertainment Weekly Staff), Entertainment Weekly, 01/11/2002

"...[T]he ideas and texture of 8 1/2 have never ceased to be an inspiration to artists everywhere..." - Premiere Staff (Premiere Staff), Premiere, 12/01/2003

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Product Title:	8 1/2 (DVD) (The Criterion Collection) (US Version) 8部半(DVD) (The Criterion Collection) (美國版) 8部半(DVD) (The Criterion Collection) (美国版) 8 1/2 (DVD) (The Criterion Collection) (US Version) 8 1/2 (DVD) (The Criterion Collection) (US Version)
Also known as:	Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 Federico Fellini's 8 1/2
Artist Name(s):	Cardinale Claudia (Actor) | Steele Barbara (Actor) Claudia Cardinale (Actor) | Steele Barbara (Actor) Claudia Cardinale (Actor) | Steele Barbara (Actor) Cardinale Claudia (Actor) | Steele Barbara (Actor) Cardinale Claudia (Actor) | Steele Barbara (Actor)
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Release Date:	2001-12-04
UPC Code:	037429135624
Language:	English
Subtitles:	English, Slovak
Country of Origin:	Italy
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Black & White
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	Not Rated
Publisher:	Criterion Collection
Other Information:	2 DVDs
Package Weight:	176 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004392083