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8½ (Italian: Otto e mezzo [ˈɔtto e mˈmɛddzo]) is a 1963 comedy drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini.The metafictional narrative centers on Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a famous Italian film director who suffers from stifled creativity as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film.
Federico Fellini Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni]; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness.
Nine is a musical initiated by and with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit.It is based on the 1963 film 8½.. The show tells the story of film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice.
In 1965, Guido Contini is a gifted Italian filmmaker at the famous Cinecittà movie studios in Rome. Having turned fifty and developed writer's block, he conjures all the women in his life, both alive and deceased, for inspiration, including: Luisa (née Acari), his wife; Claudia Jenssen, his star actress; Carla Albanese, his mistress; Liliane "Lilli" La Fleur, his costume designer and ...
Federico Fellini in the 1970s. This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Federico Fellini. Fellini's films have received four Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film for La Strada (1956), Nights of Cabiria (1957), 8½ (1963), and Amarcord (1974). He won the Academy Honorary Award in 1992 for his contributions to ...
The maestro has gone back to his "8 1/2" and come up with zero." [ 28 ] Tom McElfresh of The Cincinnati Enquirer described the film as having "events and elements that warrant all the usual Fellini review words again: Macabre, penetrating, illusive, antic, astounding, perverse, playful, acerbic . . .
The album is a tribute to composer Nino Rota and contains adaptations of his compositions for Federico Fellini films. [1] It was the first of producer Hal Willner's tribute albums, and featured then-little-known musicians such as Wynton Marsalis and Bill Frisell. [2] It was recorded in 1981. [3]
Guido Anselmi, film director played by Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini's film 8 1/2; Commissario Guido Brunetti, the protagonist of Donna Leon's crime fiction series set in Venice, Italy; Father Guido Sarducci, fictional character portrayed by American comedian Don Novello