8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963): Prince Charles Cinema, 12.40pm
This 35mm presentation is also being screened on February 12th and 29th. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
If
all you know about this exuberant, self-regarding 1963 film is based on
its countless inferior imitations (from Paul Mazursky's Alex in Wonderland and The Pickle to Woody Allen's Stardust Memories to Bob Fosse's All That Jazz),
you owe it to yourself to see Federico Fellini's exhilarating,
stocktaking original, an expressionist, circuslike comedy about the
complex mental and social life of a big-time filmmaker (Marcello
Mastroianni) stuck for a subject and the busy world surrounding him.
It's Fellini's last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most
gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did—certainly more fun than
anything he made after it. (The only Fellini movie that's about as
pleasurable is The White Sheik.)
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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