8 ½

This masterpiece of personal cinema starring Marcello Mastroianni opens a run at Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills.

Is it possible? Can "8 1/2" be close to 50 years old? The calendar may say yes, but to see this classic of personal cinema one more time is to be in the presence of a kind of picture-making that defiantly remains forever young. First released in 1963, Italian director Federico Fellini's landmark examination of self-portraiture and the creative process opens a run at Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills in the first newly struck 35-millimeter print in almost two decades. Though much has changed in cinematic fashions and styles in the interim, this film retains an ability to enthrall and delight that has not diminished over the years. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4420 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 23 aprile 2010