Title: 8 1/2
Director: Frederico Fellini
Year: 1963
Language: Italian
Director: Frederico Fellini
Year: 1963
Language: Italian
Frederico Fellini named this film after the amount of movies he had made up to this date. He had made 7 full length films and 3 shorts which he rightfully entitled half a point to each, thereby setting his film count to 8 and a half.
Fellini intermingles fantasy and fiction in this popular classic. It's always hard to discuss a film so greatly viewed and appreciated by a large film base audience. Managing to avoid popular opinion, these are the views I have formed after viewing this masterpiece.
The story revolves around a director, Guido Anselmi, who has writers block and is struggling to come up with a storyline for his latest feature film that has already been funded. This director is played by Marcello Mastroianni and throughout the film his character fights between his tough reality and the fantasy world he has created. Guido's life and loves intermingle in both worlds and that is where we see the struggle play out.
To state my opinion clearly, this film fucking rocks! Why does it rock though? For those of you who have done film studies, you will remember sitting in class with your teacher throwing up slides about the technical skills of a filmmaker such as lighting and camera angles. This film delivers what all filmmakers only wish they had thought of first.
There are film angles in this film that Fellini uses so well they deliver the meaning of what it means to make a movie. There are shots and angles that seem to never have existed until Fellini made this film. These shots are spectacular. The lighting is used so well that I could only feel envious of the director. It's purely simple yet so thought out and complex that nobody but Fellini could have created this film.
The storyline is weird, and yes it's in Italian so those who can't stand subtitles or having their film lines blurred between reality and fantasy should not watch it. If your a film buff though and have always dreamed of getting lost in the creation of a film then this is one of those films, but you probably know that already as it's one that your teacher would have pointed out to you in class all those years back.
I was never keen on watching Fellini's most famous film but now I have, it has inspired the filmmaker in me again. I don't think it's the best film ever made but something has me wanting to watch this film over and over. Perhaps Fellini managed to work out how to mesmerize his viewers by hypnotizing them into loving his films. Whatever the case, it's pure fucking talent and today's Hollywood has nothing on this cinematic piece of genius!
That's my opinion and I'm sure you have your own... now check out the trailer if you haven't seen this film already...
Fellini intermingles fantasy and fiction in this popular classic. It's always hard to discuss a film so greatly viewed and appreciated by a large film base audience. Managing to avoid popular opinion, these are the views I have formed after viewing this masterpiece.
The story revolves around a director, Guido Anselmi, who has writers block and is struggling to come up with a storyline for his latest feature film that has already been funded. This director is played by Marcello Mastroianni and throughout the film his character fights between his tough reality and the fantasy world he has created. Guido's life and loves intermingle in both worlds and that is where we see the struggle play out.
To state my opinion clearly, this film fucking rocks! Why does it rock though? For those of you who have done film studies, you will remember sitting in class with your teacher throwing up slides about the technical skills of a filmmaker such as lighting and camera angles. This film delivers what all filmmakers only wish they had thought of first.
There are film angles in this film that Fellini uses so well they deliver the meaning of what it means to make a movie. There are shots and angles that seem to never have existed until Fellini made this film. These shots are spectacular. The lighting is used so well that I could only feel envious of the director. It's purely simple yet so thought out and complex that nobody but Fellini could have created this film.
The storyline is weird, and yes it's in Italian so those who can't stand subtitles or having their film lines blurred between reality and fantasy should not watch it. If your a film buff though and have always dreamed of getting lost in the creation of a film then this is one of those films, but you probably know that already as it's one that your teacher would have pointed out to you in class all those years back.
I was never keen on watching Fellini's most famous film but now I have, it has inspired the filmmaker in me again. I don't think it's the best film ever made but something has me wanting to watch this film over and over. Perhaps Fellini managed to work out how to mesmerize his viewers by hypnotizing them into loving his films. Whatever the case, it's pure fucking talent and today's Hollywood has nothing on this cinematic piece of genius!
That's my opinion and I'm sure you have your own... now check out the trailer if you haven't seen this film already...
1 comments:
A genius. Did you see NINE? We enjoyed that very much. Yes, one can't help but be inspired after watching his films.
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