Description:

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.

Special Features:

• New high-definition digital transfer of restored film elements, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• 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 52-minute documentary from 2003 on Fellini's lost alternate ending for 8 1/2
• Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a 48-minute documentary about Fellini's longtime composer
• Interviews with actress Sandra Milo, director Lina Wertmuller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
• Rare photographs from Bachmann's collection
• Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos
• U.S. theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Plus: a booklet featuring writings by Fellini and esays by critics Tullio Kezich and Alexander Sesonske