Criterion Collection: 8 1/2 (2 Disc Set)
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- Released
- 01/08/2002
- Film and TV Genre
- Drama
- Video Format
- NTSC
- DVD Region
- 1 (will only play on Region 1 and Multi-Region DVD players)
Description
US IMPORT REGION 1 NTSC FORMAT
Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken. He finds himself harangued by producers, his wife, and his mistress while he struggles to find the inspiration to finish his film. The stress plunges Guido into an interior world where fantasy and memory impinge on reality. Fellini jumbles narrative logic by freely cutting from flashbacks to dream sequences to the present until it becomes impossible to pry them apart, creating both a psychological portrait of Guido's interior world and the surrealistic, circus-like exterior world that came to be known as "Felliniesque." 8 1/2 won an Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, as well as the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival, and was one of the most influential and commercially successful European art movies of the 1960s, inspiring such later films as Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979), Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and even Lucio Fulci's Italian splatter film Un Gatto nel Cervello (1990).
Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken. He finds himself harangued by producers, his wife, and his mistress while he struggles to find the inspiration to finish his film. The stress plunges Guido into an interior world where fantasy and memory impinge on reality. Fellini jumbles narrative logic by freely cutting from flashbacks to dream sequences to the present until it becomes impossible to pry them apart, creating both a psychological portrait of Guido's interior world and the surrealistic, circus-like exterior world that came to be known as "Felliniesque." 8 1/2 won an Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, as well as the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival, and was one of the most influential and commercially successful European art movies of the 1960s, inspiring such later films as Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979), Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and even Lucio Fulci's Italian splatter film Un Gatto nel Cervello (1990).
Product Details
- Actors
- Director
- Federico Fellini
- Year of release
- 1963
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1
- Audio Format
- DTS Stereo Surround - English
- DTS Surround 4.1 - English
- English Dolby Digital 5.1
- THX Mastered Audio
- Number of Discs
- 2
- Series
- Criterion Collection
- Disc Layers
- 2
- Disc Features
- Featurette
- Interactive Menus
- Production Notes
- Scene Selection
- Theatrical Trailer
- Anamorphic
- Film Format
- Anamorphic
- Photos and storyboards
- Yes
- Label / Studio
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- Run Time (minutes)
- 138
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
- Subtitle Language
- English
- Cast & Crew
- Gianni Di Venanzo (Director of Photography)
- Angelo Rizzoli (Producer)
- Brunello Rondi (Screenwriter)
- Ennio Flaiano (Screenwriter)
- Federico Fellini (Screenwriter)
- Tullio Pinelli (Screenwriter)
- Nino Rota (Composer)
Additional Information
- Alternate Endings (4)
- Alternate Scene
- Audio Commentary - 1. David Fincher - Director
- Audio Commentary - 1. Jason Statham - Star, Luc Besson - Producer
- Audio Commentary - 1. Jet Li - Star
- Audio Commentary - 1. John Carpenter - Director, Kurt Russell - Star
- Audio Commentary - 1. John Moore - Director, Martin Smith - Editor
- Audio Commentary - 1. Leelee Sobieski - Star
- Audio Commentary - 2. Bridget Fonda - Star
- Audio Commentary - 2. David Fincher - Director, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Edward Norton - Stars
- Audio Commentary - 2. John Davis - Producer, Wick Davis - Producer
- Audio Commentary - 2. Steven Zahn - Star
- Audio Commentary - 2. TV Spots
- Audio Commentary - 3. Chris Nahon - Director
- Audio Commentary - 3. Chuck Palahniuk - Author, Jim Uhls - Screenwriter
- Audio Commentary - 3. John Dahl - Director
- Audio Commentary - 4. Clay Tarver - Screenwriter
- Audio Commentary - 4. Special Effects Supervisors
- Audio Commentary - 5. J.J. Adams - Screenwriter
- Bonus Footage
- Deleted Scene
- Deleted Scenes (15 Mins; Unrated)
- Easter Eggs
- Featurette
- Featurette - 1. MAKING OF JOY RIDE
- Featurette - 1. MAKING OF THE TRANSPORTER
- Featurette - 2. Documentary on Corey Yuen - Choreographer
- Featurette - 3. MAKING OF KISS OF THE DRAGON
- Featurette - 4. POLICE GYMNASIUM FIGHT MARTIAL ARTS DEMO
- Featurettes - 1. Documentary on Jet Li - Star
- Interactive Menus
- Original End Credits Sequence
- Original Title Sequence
- Outtakes
- Production Stills
- Scene Access
- Storyboards
- Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
