Fellini 8 1 2 Stills
The talk of the town indeed most of the film world after la dolce vita 1960 the great italian director found himself wondering how he d manage to top this era defining film fresco about the social elite in rome at the turn of the 1960s.
Fellini 8 1 2 stills. Directed by federico fellini 1963 italy starring marcello mastroianni bruno agostini sandra milo marcello mastroianni plays guido anselmi a director whose new project is collapsing around him along with his life. Fellini biographer hollis alpert noted that in the months following its release critical commentary on 8 1 2 proliferated as the film became an intellectual cud to chew on. Directed by federico fellini. 3 fellini at first wanted sir laurence olivier or charles chaplin to.
Written and directed by federico fellini 8 1 2 is an italian avant garde film released in 1963. I have seen 8 1 2 over and over again and my appreciation only deepens. From this starting point mario sesti s fifty two minute documentary details the story of that original ending and how it came to be replaced. Posted on sunday 18 december 2011.
Gianni di venanzo a friend of mine commented on the paths of glory post by asking great final scene or greatest and while it s definitely up there for my money nothing can top the grand optimism of federico. Jul 6 2014 movies of federico fellini. See more ideas about movies film cinema. Its title derives from its position as the eighth and a half film that fellini directed if one considers his two short films and a collaboration each as half films.
It does what is almost impossible. One of the greatest films about film ever made federico fellini s 8 otto e mezzo turns one man s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Fellini is a magician who discusses reveals explains and deconstructs his tricks while still fooling us with them. A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
With marcello mastroianni anouk aimée claudia cardinale sandra milo. 8 which at one point fellini wanted to call la bella confusion a fine muddle was beginning to take definite shape in his mind and was originally conceived as centering on the life of a disillusioned writer or professional man or perhaps a theatrical impresario. Federico fellini originally intended for 8 1 2 to end with a surreal sequence in a train car sets were built and footage was shot but all that remains are still photographs. 8 1 2 1963 federico fellini.