• 8½
• 8½ (disambiguation)
• 8½ Women
• A Man and a Woman
• Academy Award
• Akira Kurosawa
• Alberto Arbasino
• Alberto Lattuada
• Alberto Moravia
• Alex in Wonderland
• All That Jazz (film)
• AllRovi
• Amarcord
• Angelo Rizzoli
• Anouk Aimée
• Anthology film
• Arthur Penn
• Aspect ratio
• Barbara Steele
• Bertrand Blier
• Bicycle Thieves
• Black-and-white
• Bob Fosse
• Boccaccio '70
• Bosley Crowther
• Brief Encounter
• Broadway theatre
• Brunello Rondi
• Cannes Film Festival
• Carlos Sorin
• Caterina Boratto
• Charlie Kaufman
• Chicago Sun-Times
• Cinematographer
• Cineriz
• Citizen Kane
• City Lights
• City of Women
• Claude Lelouch
• Claudia Cardinale
• Columbia Pictures
• Comedy-drama
• Corriere della Sera
• Costa-Gavras
• Daniel Day-Lewis
• Day for Night (film)
• Derek Malcolm
• Dr. Strangelove
• Dwight Macdonald
• Eddra Gale
• Elio Petri
• Elmar Klos
• Embassy Pictures
• Empire (magazine)
• Ennio Flaiano
• Eugene Walter
• Everybody Hurts
• Federico Fellini
• Fellini's Casanova
• François Truffaut
• French people
• Gianni Di Venanzo
• Gianni di Venanzo
• Ginger and Fred
• Greed (film)
• Gruppo '63
• Hollis Alpert
• Holy See
• I clowns
• I vitelloni
• I Vitelloni
• Ian Dallas
• Il bidone
• Ingmar Bergman
• Intervista
• Intolerance (film)
• James Joyce
• Jean Marais
• Jean-Jacques Annaud
• Jiří Menzel
• John Simon (critic)
• Joseph E. Levine
• Judith Crist
• Ján Kadár
• Kremlin
• L'amore in città
• L'Atalante
• L'Avventura
• La Dolce Vita
• La Pelicula del rey
• La Strada
• La strada
• La strada (film)
• La Terra Trema
• Le Jour se leve
• Le Million
• Leopold Bloom
• Living in Oblivion
• Luchino Visconti
• Luis Buñuel
• Madame Rosa
• Madeleine LeBeau
• Marcello Mastroianni
• Mario Pisu
• Maury Yeston
• Mickey One
• Modern Times (film)
• Modernization
• Moscow
• Moscow Film Festival
• Moshé Mizrahi
• Movie camera
• Mubi (website)
• Music video
• Nanni Moretti
• Neoavanguardia
• New York
• New York Times
• Newsweek
• Nights of Cabiria
• Nine (film)
• Nine (musical)
• Nino Rota
• NISI MASA
• Orchestra Rehearsal
• Osmosis
• Pather Panchali
• Paul Mazursky
• Pauline Kael
• Persona (film)
• Peter Greenaway
• Piero Gherardi
• R.E.M.
• Raging Bull
• Rashomon (film)
• Rimini
• Rob Marshall
• Roger Ebert
• Roma (1972 film)
• Romagna
• Rome
• Rotten Tomatoes
• Sadomasochism
• Sandra Milo
• Satyajit Ray
• Satyricon (film)
• Science fiction
• Self-reflexive
• Serge Bourguignon
• Sergei Bondarchuk
• Sergio Amidei
• Seven Samurai
• Sight & Sound
• Singin' in the Rain
• Soviet
• Stanley Kramer
• Stardust Memories
• Sundays and Cybele
• Synecdoche, New York
• Template Fellini
• The Godfather
• The Gold Rush
• The Leopard (film)
• The New York Post
• The Searchers (film)
• The Seventh Seal
• The Tin Drum (film)
• The White Sheik
• Tokyo Story
• Tom DiCillo
• Tullio Kezich
• Tullio Pinelli
• Tunisia
• Ugetsu
• Ulysses (novel)
• Umberto Eco
• United States
• Vadim Abdrashitov
• Variety Lights
• Vertigo (film)
• Viewfinder
• Vittorio De Sica
• Vladimir Menshov
• Volker Schlöndorff
• Woody Allen
• Working title
• Writer's block
• Z (film)
• 
  

• Broadway theatre
• Cannes Film Festival
• Moscow
• New York
• Rimini
• Romagna
• Rome
• Tunisia
• United States

• Akira Kurosawa
• Alberto Arbasino
• Alberto Lattuada
• Alberto Moravia
• Angelo Rizzoli
• Anouk Aimée
• Arthur Penn
• Barbara Steele
• Bertrand Blier
• Bob Fosse
• Bosley Crowther
• Brunello Rondi
• Caterina Boratto
• Charlie Kaufman
• Claude Lelouch
• Claudia Cardinale
• Derek Malcolm
• Dwight Macdonald
• Eddra Gale
• Elio Petri
• Elmar Klos
• Ennio Flaiano
• Eugene Walter
• Federico Fellini
• François Truffaut
• French people
• Gianni Di Venanzo
• Gianni di Venanzo
• Hollis Alpert
• Ingmar Bergman
• James Joyce
• Jean Marais
• Jiří Menzel
• Judith Crist
• Ján Kadár
• Leopold Bloom
• Luchino Visconti
• Luis Buñuel
• Madeleine LeBeau
• Marcello Mastroianni
• Mario Pisu
• Maury Yeston
• Moshé Mizrahi
• Nanni Moretti
• Nino Rota
• Paul Mazursky
• Pauline Kael
• Peter Greenaway
• Piero Gherardi
• Raging Bull
• Rob Marshall
• Roger Ebert
• Sandra Milo
• Satyajit Ray
• Serge Bourguignon
• Sergei Bondarchuk
• Sergio Amidei
• Stanley Kramer
• Tom DiCillo
• Tullio Kezich
• Tullio Pinelli
• Umberto Eco
• Vadim Abdrashitov
• Vittorio De Sica
• Vladimir Menshov
• Volker Schlöndorff
• Woody Allen

8½ (1963)

Genres

• Drama
• Fantasy

Taglines:

A picture that goes beyond what men think about - because no man ever thought about it in quite this way!

Quotes:

Guido: Accept me as I am. Only then can we discover each other.

Guido: Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence.

Guido: I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film that could help bury forever all those dead things we carry within ourselves. Instead, I'm the one without the courage to bury anything at all. When did I go wrong? I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it all the same.

Guido: My Dears... Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Guido: All the confusion of my life... has been a reflection of myself! Myself as I am, not as I'd like to be.

Guido: The truth is: I do not know... I seek... I have not yet found. Only with this in mind can I feel alive and look at you without shame.

Claudia: I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?::Guido: Because he no longer believes in it.::Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.::Guido: Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.::Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.::Guido: And above all because I don't feel like telling another pile of lies.::Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love.

Writer: You see, what stands out at a first reading is the lack of a central issue or a philosophical stance. That makes the film a chain of gratuitous episodes which may even be amusing in their ambivalent realism. You wonder, what is the director really trying to do? Make us think? Scare us? That ploy betrays a basic lack of poetic inspiration.

Writer: Why piece together the tatters of your life - the vague memories, the faces... the people you never knew how to love?

Guido: Could you walk out on everything and start all over again? Could you choose one single thing, and be faithful to it? Could you make it the one thing that gives your life meaning... just because you believe in it? Could you do that?"::Claudia: I don't know... could you?"::Guido: No, the character I'm thinking of couldn't. He wants to possess and devour everything. He can't pass anything up. He's afraid he'll miss something. He's drained.::Claudia: That's how the film ends?::Guido: No, that's how it begins. Then he meets a girl at the springs. She gives him water to heal him. She's beautiful... young, yet ancient... child, yet already a woman... authentic, complete. It's obvious that she could be his salvation. [Looks over at Claudia] You'll wear white... with long hair, just as you do now.

• timeline:
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001

• timeline:
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001