8½ (1963) (b/w, Criterion Collection, Restored, Special Edition, 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray)

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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 8½ turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Also featured is Fellini’s rarely seen first film for television, Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969). Produced by Peter Goldfarb, this “imagined documentary” of Fellini on Fellini is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects, all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director’s unique creative process.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
Audio commentary featuring film critics Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a short film by Federico Fellini
The Last Sequence, a documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½
Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a documentary about Fellini’s longtime composer
Interviews with actor Sandra Milo, filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
Rare photographs from Bachmann’s collection
Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek

New cover by Eric Skillman