8/25/2023 0 Comments 8 1 2 federico fellini 1963There were sets already up, but I couldn’t find my sentimental feeling. What they didn’t know was that the film I was going to make had fled from me. I was at Cinecittà, and everybody was ready and waiting for me to make a film. ![]() ![]() I suffered director’s block, like writer’s block. In the case of 8½, something happened to me which I had feared could happen, but when it did, it was more terrible than I could ever have imagined. But there was a problem, as Fellini explained in an excerpt from Charlotte Chandler’s I, Fellini, reprinted in the booklet that accompanies the Criterion release of the film: Naturally, expectations were extremely high for his next film. ![]() Confused? That’s only the beginning.īy the end of the 1950s, Fellini was already a popular and respected filmmaker throughout the world - in the United States, for instance, he had won two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, for 1954’s La Strada and 1957’s Nights of Cabiria - and the massive success (and occasional controversy) of 1960’s La Dolce Vita catapulted him to another level. Federico Fellini’s 8½ is the story of a director who doesn’t know what to do for his next movie, made by a director who didn’t know what to do for his next movie.
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