8½ is a Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. ...1963 film by Italian director Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was a famous Italian film_maker and director. ...Federico Fellini. It is critically accepted as one of the finest films ever made.

The plot revolves around a director, Guido Anselmi _ played by Marcello Mastroianni in 1958 Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 – December 19, 1996) was an Italian film actor. ...Marcello Mastroianni, who amidst marital difficulties attempts to find inspiration for a new Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...science fiction film. The film often delves into Guido's memories and fantasies. It displays several elements of autobiography. La Bella Confusione (The Beautiful Confusion) was the working title of 8½.

8½ is much admired for its sensitivity to the problems of the creative process, both technical and personal, and problems artists face when expected to deliver something personal and profound, with a large public watching, on a very set schedule — while all the while having to live their own lives, and deal with their own personal relationships. It is in a larger sense about finding true personal happiness in a difficult, fragmented life.

The film won the Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Fellini was nominated for Best Director. 8½ is a fixture on the prestigious Sight and Sound is a British monthly magazine about film. ...Sight & Sound critics and directors poll of the top ten films ever made.

The film is 138 minutes in length and filmed in stark Black_and_white is a broad adjectival term used to describe a number of forms of visual technology. ...black and white.

The Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ...musical Nine is based on 8½.

External links

• Criterion Collection: 8½, essays, commentary, and restoration information. (http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=140&eid=187&section=essay)
• 8½ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/) at the The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon. ...Internet Movie Database

8½ was also an early A windowing system (also windows system or window system) is a standard part of all modern computer graphical user interfaces, as opposed to command line interfaces. ...windowing system for the Glenda the Plan 9 bunny Plan 9 is an operating system descended from Unix and developed by Bell Laboratories. ...Plan 9 In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ...operating system.