TakaAwesome
2Apr12
Was about to post something similar - took a second viewing for me to really appreciate this film. I found it overwhelming and at times confounding the first time through.
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Erick
29Apr12
I've just finished the film for the first time and am still a bit confused. Regardless, it was beautifully shot and the message was a highly comforting one amidst the highly depressing art cinema that is being made today. Definitely plan on watching it a second time and even contemplating buying a copy. It's just one of those films you want to own.
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Scottie Ferguson
18Apr12
Essentially, I see this as a companion piece to La Dolce Vita. Both are about a man (played by Marcello Mastroianni) who has all the love in the world but is incapable of giving it back. But while La Dolce Vita serves as social commentary, 8 1/2 is about the search for artistic fulfillment. Though I enjoyed it, I'll still take Fellini's epic vision of nighttime Rome over his surreal film-about-a-film any day.
Jonathan De La Rosa
11Apr12
The epic chronicles of the inner life of the world's most lovable scumbag. You don't normally hear (or say) this about thematically dense art-house cinema, but this movie is just *fun.* Best mid-life crisis ever. Although I think I need to watch it again so I can absorb it subtextually. Lord knows I was already tired and beat when I first watched it.
TakaAwesome
3Apr12
Much better on a second viewing for me. Still very confounding, but I knew what to expect so the confusion bothered me less, I was able to embrace/go along with the film more. I appreciated what I missed the first time through; the fact that this film works at all is pretty genius in itself. It's also a gorgeous blu-ray transfer (filled with gorgeous actresses). The whites look amazing. Now, time to do some research.
B_R_Wilhelm
12Mar12
Fellini is the true maestro of cinema and here is his towering achievement of sight and sound.
tiagovitoria
22Feb12
Is an example of how movie should work the subconscious of human beings, their frustrations and adversities. The pace of the film is brilliant as well as lighting that is working so oddly well by Gianni Di Venanzo. The way Fellini moves the camera through the voices of people who are constantly bugging and yelling with opinions and recommendations is a unique piece of true film making.
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sfcugura
5Feb12
Must-watch-at-least-two-times kind of movie. I've mostly enjoyed how Fellini played with shadows and the manner in which he had emphasized emotions and his/hers/character's state of mind.
Howard Orr
29Jan12
The most enduring by far of Fellini's films, because it turns his usually frivolous "la vita e bella" view of the world into an inward questioning of the deeper responsibilities of a film director. Films like this only really work when the insecurities of an artist are laid out in almost absurd candour, and Fellini's own outpuring of neuroses still make Otto e Mezzo seem vital.
Ace Craven
26Jan12
Good Bye Sailor.You did the Right thing. Believe me this is a good day for you... It's better to destroy than to create what's unessential. Besides, what's clear enough, valuable enough to deserve to survive? ...Better wash you hands of it… Any man worthy to be called an artist should swear one oath: Dedication to silence!
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Ace Craven
11Dec11
I can't sit and watch 8 1/2 all the way through in one sitting. I don't know what it is: too operatic, too displacing? Each time I start I find myself saying out-loud "this is different." It's not like other films. The blocking is grand, the transitions ethereal, the actors play as though they know something I don't. I love 8 1/2 as much as I hate it... Perhaps it's a dive-bomb into the conscious of a like-soul. =/
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Gianni Naka Candellari
1Dec11
sul film inutile aggiungere parole. commento solo la stratosferica bellezza di Claudia Cardinale. altro che Loren, Lollo o quelle sciaquette di oggi.
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TakaAwesome
29Aug11
Has all the ingredients of something I should've liked a lot more... apparently I enjoy the films 8½ influenced far more than 8½ itself.
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Paula Ramos Salas
8Aug11
Fellini, 8 1/2 y uno de los ejercicios fílmicos más increíbles que he visto. La película es un boceto, y como boceto es perfecto. y para qué más? No es cine ordinario, esta pelicula no es una finalidad como tal, es un intermedio en el que el director no sabia qué rienda tomar, asi que decide contarlo de la mejor forma en la que sabe hacerlo, filmando. Fellini juega y se torna surrealista sin pretender serlo.
Catarina Gomes
1Jul11
The memories of a man´s life at what seems the premise of the end of his carrer. For a man who has always created histories, that means almost as much as fisical death. When nothing else comes to mind, all there is to do is remember. At least until something good comes along. Destroying is better than creating when we are not creating the few truly necessary things - that´s the only message I take from this film.
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Amani
30Jun11
that surrealist stuff. where you can't really tell what's real and what's fake. Kind of like "reality." Accomplished so much in the mise-en-scene and cinematography.
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msmichel
18May11
One of my all time faves. Fellini's 8 1/2 is near perfection. A masterpiece of direction and screen writing. Fellini's team transcended previous efforts in art direction, cinemantography, set design and casting. No one cast pictures like Fellini and this is the film that developed the adjective Felliniesque. Mastroanni perfect as the Fellini modeled director, well supported by a cast of amazing women. Essential.
Allan Farrell
13May11
My favorite movie of all time. Although it is strange, I found it to be thoroughly enjoyable. This whole movie is proof that Fellini is a master with a camera.
João Pedro
24Apr11
Mindfuck. Baffling paranoia. Or lack of sensibility from myself? Urges the need to review it.
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