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Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8 1/2 was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini's masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.

Supplements

Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and NYU film professor Antonio Monda
High-definition digital transfer of a new restoration of Fellini: A Director's Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini
The Last Sequence, a new 52-minute documentary on Fellini's lost alternate ending for 8 1/2
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a compelling 48-minute documentary about Fellini's longtime composer
Interviews with actress Sandra Milo, director Lina WertmÃ¼ller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
Rare photographs from Bachmann's collection
Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos

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