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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.
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.
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 . . .
In 2012, the world’s film critics considered Federico Fellini’s 1963 Oscar-winning “8 ½” one of the 10 greatest films of all time. By 2022, Fellini’s landmark film had fallen out of the ...
8 1/2. Benderson, Albert Edward (1 June 1974). Critical approaches to Federico Fellini's "8 1/2".Arno Press. Affron, Charles (1 January 1987). Eight and a Half.
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 ...
8 + 1 ⁄ 2 Women is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway and starring John Standing, Matthew Delamere, and Vivian Wu. An international co-production of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Germany, it was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival .
Nino Rota is best known for his many film scores—in particular for the seminal Fellini films La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8 1/2 (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), and Amarcord (1974). He also wrote the scores for Franco Zeffirelli 's Romeo and Juliet (1968), Luchino Visconti 's The Leopard , and Francis Ford Coppola 's The ...