8.5 (Blu-ray)

8½
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 8½ turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Also featured is Fellini’s rarely seen first film for television, Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969). Produced by Peter Goldfarb, this “imagined documentary” of Fellini on Fellini is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects, all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director’s unique creative process.

4K + SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One disc of the film and one with the film and special features
• Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
• Audio commentary featuring film critics Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda
• Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a short film by Federico Fellini
• The Last Sequence, a documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½
• Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a documentary about Fellini’s longtime composer
• Interviews with actor Sandra Milo, filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
• Rare photographs from Bachmann’s collection
• Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek