In 1963, Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini directed his Oscar-winning masterpiece “8 1/2,” reuniting with actor Marcello Mastroianni (“La Dolce Vita”) as an on-screen proxy for his own creative and ...

Even by his phantasmagorical standards — Satyricon and La Dolce Vita — Federico Fellini’s 8 1⁄2 is a gorgeous headtrip. Whether you approach it as a parable of the effects of writer’s block on a ...

Federico Fellini’s shift from heavily neorealist-influenced dramas to the more idiosyncratic, carnivalesque films that defined his work began in 1960 with “La Dolce Vita,” still arguably his greatest ...

Since its initial release 36 years ago, Federico Fellini’s “8 1/2” has become such a filmmaker’s talisman, quoted in almost every student film and Woody Allen movie you can think of, that it’s ...

I almost didn’t see “8 1/2 ” again. A press screening of Federico Fellini’s 1963 film, which opened at the Charles on Friday, was scheduled during a particularly harried week. When that Friday rolled ...

“8 1/2 is meant to be an attempt to reach an agreement with life, an attempt and not a result or conclusion,” Federico Fellini once said. “I think the film may suggest a solution: to make friends with ...

A favorite of virtually every filmmaker, this exhilarating phantasmagoria was inspired by Fellini’s own creative block. “I am Guido”, he famously said of Marcello Mastroianni’s conflicted film ...

New Yorkers have a chance to see the film Roger Ebert dubbed “the best movie ever made about filmmaking” in a stunning, newly restored 35mm print later this month. Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ runs at the ...

"A picture that goes beyond what men think about - because no man ever thought about it in quite this way!" The beloved classic is back! At least in the UK for now. BFI is re-releasing Federico ...

Thirty years after its premiere, despite being in black and white and despite the irritating lip-flap from the Italian penchant for post-dubbing dialogue, Federico Fellini’s “8 1/2” is a remarkably ...

Federico Fellini’s 1963 magnum opus “8 1/2” is Fellini’s capstone work: his most critically lauded and widely influential film. A stunning mix of witty autobiography, private phantasmagoria and ...