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Index 8½

(Italian title: Otto e mezzo) is a 1963 comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini. [1]

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  1. 208 relations: A King and His Movie, Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Production Design, Academy Awards, Acapulco Film Festival, Alberto Arbasino, Alberto Lattuada, Alberto Moravia, Alex in Wonderland, All That Jazz (film), Angelo Rizzoli, Anita Morris, Annibale Ninchi, Anouk Aimée, Anthology film, Antonio Banderas, Arthur Kopit, Arthur Penn, Asa Nisi Masa, Aspect ratio (image), Autobiographical novel, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Barbara Steele, BBC, Beware of a Holy Whore, Bob Dylan, Bob Fosse, Boccaccio '70, Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film, Bodil Awards, Bosley Crowther, Box office, British Academy Film Awards, British Film Institute, Broadway theatre, Brunello Rondi, Cahiers du Cinéma, Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists, Carlos Sorín, Caterina Boratto, Chicago Sun-Times, Chita Rivera, Cinematographer, Cineriz, Citizen Kane, Claudia Cardinale, ... Expand index (158 more) »

  2. Films produced by Angelo Rizzoli
  3. Films with screenplays by Federico Fellini

A King and His Movie

A King and His Movie (La película del rey) is a 1986 Argentine comedy drama film, directed by Carlos Sorín, and written by Sorín and Jorge Goldenberg.

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Abdalqadir as-Sufi

Abdalqadir as-Sufi (born Ian Stewart Dallas; 1930 – 1 August 2021) was a Scottish Muslim leader and author.

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Academy Award for Best Costume Design

The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for achievement in film costume design.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.

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Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Acapulco Film Festival

The Acapulco Film Festival (Reseña Mundial de Cine de Acapulco) was a film festival held in Acapulco, Mexico, annually from 1959 to 1968 and once more in 1987, with a precursor event held in Mexico City in 1958.

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Alberto Arbasino

Nino Alberto Arbasino (22 January 1930 – 22 March 2020) was an Italian writer, essayist, and politician.

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Alberto Lattuada

Mario Alberto Lattuada (13 November 1914 – 3 July 2005) was an Italian film director.

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Alberto Moravia

Alberto Pincherle (28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist.

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Alex in Wonderland

Alex in Wonderland is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed by Paul Mazursky, written with his partner Larry Tucker, starring Donald Sutherland and Ellen Burstyn. 8½ and Alex in Wonderland are films about film directors and producers.

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All That Jazz (film)

All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider. 8½ and All That Jazz (film) are films à clef, films about film directors and producers, films that won the Best Costume Design Academy Award and semi-autobiographical films.

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Angelo Rizzoli

Angelo Rizzoli, OML (31 October 1889 – 24 September 1970) was an Italian publisher and film producer.

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Anita Morris

Anita Rose Morris (March 14, 1943 – March 2, 1994) was an American actress, singer and dancer.

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Annibale Ninchi

Annibale Ninchi (20 November 1887 – 15 January 1967) was an Italian actor, playwright and drama teacher.

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Anouk Aimée

Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (27 April 1932 2024), known professionally as Anouk Aimée or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019.

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Anthology film

An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a single film consisting of several shorter films, each complete in itself and distinguished from the other, though frequently tied together by a single theme, premise, or author.

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Antonio Banderas

José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born 10 August 1960), better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor and filmmaker.

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Arthur Kopit

Arthur Lee Kopit (May 10, 1937 – April 2, 2021) was an American playwright.

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Arthur Penn

Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer.

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Asa Nisi Masa

"Asa Nisi Masa" is a well-known nonsense phrase used during a key scene in Federico Fellini's 1963 film 8½.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.

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Autobiographical novel

An autobiographical novel, also known as a autobiographical fiction, fictional autobiography, or autobiographical fiction novel, is a type of novel which uses autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements.

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.

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Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele (born 29 December 1937) is an English film actress known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Beware of a Holy Whore

Beware of a Holy Whore (Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte) is a 1971 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder that features Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla and Fassbinder himself.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Bob Fosse

Robert Louis Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director.

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Boccaccio '70

Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 comedy anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli and Luchino Visconti from an idea by Cesare Zavattini. 8½ and Boccaccio '70 are 1960s Italian-language films, films scored by Nino Rota, films set in Rome and films with screenplays by Federico Fellini.

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Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film

The Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film is one of the categories for the Bodil Awards presented annually by the Danish Union of Film Critics (Danish: Filmedarbejderforeningen).

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Bodil Awards

The Bodil Awards are the major Danish film awards given by the Danish Film Critics Association.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Brunello Rondi

Brunello Rondi (26 November 1924 – 7 November 1989) was an Italian screenwriter and film director, best known for his frequent script collaborations with Federico Fellini.

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Cahiers du Cinéma

() is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

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Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists

The following is a list of the top 10 films chosen annually by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma, a French film magazine.

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Carlos Sorín

Carlos Sorín (born 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a film director, screenplay writer, cinematographer, and film producer.

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Caterina Boratto

Caterina Boratto (15 March 1915 – 14 September 2010) was an Italian film actress.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chita Rivera

Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero (January 23, 1933 – January 30, 2024), known professionally as Chita Rivera, was an American actress, singer, and dancer.

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Cinematographer

The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece.

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Cineriz

Cineriz was an Italian film production and distribution company, founded in 1956 by the businessman Angelo Rizzoli.

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. 8½ and Citizen Kane are films à clef.

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Claudia Cardinale

Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale (born 15 April 1938), known as Claudia Cardinale, is a Tunisian-born Italian actress.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Comedy drama

Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.

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Corriere della Sera

Corriere della Sera ("Evening Courier") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023.

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Damian Pettigrew

Damian (also Damien) Pettigrew (1963) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, author, and multimedia artist, best known for his cinematic portraits of Balthus, Carolyn Carlson, Federico Fellini, and Jean Giraud.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English retired actor.

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Day for Night (film)

Day for Night (lit) is a 1973 romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut. 8½ and Day for Night (film) are best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners and self-reflexive films.

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Derek Malcolm

Derek Elliston Michael Malcolm (12 May 1932 – 15 July 2023) was an English film critic and historian.

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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America.

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Directors Guild of America Awards

The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America.

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Dwight Macdonald

Dwight Macdonald (March 24, 1906 – December 19, 1982) was an American writer, critic, philosopher, and activist.

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Eddra Gale

Eddra Gale (July 16, 1921 – May 13, 2001) was an American actress and singer of Czech descent.

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Edy Vessel

Edoarda Vesselovsky (born 8 March 1940), better known by her stage name Edy Vessel, Edi Vessel, or Edy Vesel, is an Italian actress and businesswoman.

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Empire (magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group.

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Ennio Flaiano

Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 – 20 November 1972) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Eugene Walter

Eugene Ferdinand Walter, Jr. (November 30, 1921 – March 29, 1998) was an American screenwriter, poet, short-story author, actor, puppeteer, gourmet chef, cryptographer, translator, editor, costume designer and well-known raconteur.

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Experimental film

Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.

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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (Fellini, je suis un grand menteur) is a 2002 French documentary film written and directed by Damian Pettigrew.

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Ferdinand Guillaume

Ferdinand Guillaume (1887–1977) was a French-born Italian actor and film director.

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Fergie (singer)

Stacy Ann "Fergie" Ferguson (born March 27, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress.

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Filmsite

Filmsite is a film-review website established in 1996 by senior editor and film critic-historian Tim Dirks, and continues to be managed and edited by him for over two decades.

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François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic.

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Francinex

Francinex was a French film production and distribution company active from the 1930s to the 1960s.

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Franz Lehár

Franz Lehár (Lehár Ferenc; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer.

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Gianni Di Venanzo

Gianni Di Venanzo (18 December 1920, Teramo, Abruzzo – 3 February 1966, Rome), was an Italian cinematographer.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.

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Giuditta Rissone

Giuditta Rissone (10 March 1895 – 31 May 1977) was an Italian film actress who appeared in 25 films between 1933 and 1966.

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Guido Alberti

Guido Alberti (20 April 1909 Birth name: Guido Renato Vittorio Alberti. – 3 August 1996) was an Italian film actor.

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Hollis Alpert

Hollis Alpert (September 24, 1916 – November 18, 2007) was an American film critic and author.

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I Vitelloni

I vitelloni (literally "The bullocks" - Romagnol slang for "The slackers" or "The layabouts") is a 1953 Italian comedy drama film directed by Federico Fellini from a screenplay written by himself, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. 8½ and i Vitelloni are films scored by Nino Rota.

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Il bidone

Il bidone The Swindle is a 1955 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini starring Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart and Giulietta Masina. 8½ and il bidone are films scored by Nino Rota and films with screenplays by Federico Fellini.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.

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Jane Krakowski

Jane Krakowski (born October 11, 1968) is an American actress.

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Jean Marais

Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), known professionally as Jean Marais, was a French actor, film director, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer.

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John Simon (critic)

John Ivan Simon (né Simmon; May 12, 1925 − November 24, 2019) was an American writer and literary, theater, and film critic.

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José Padilla (composer)

José Padilla Sánchez (28 May 1889 in Almería – 25 October 1960 in Madrid), popularly known as Maestro Padilla, was a famous Spanish composer and pianist.

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Joseph E. Levine

Joseph Edward Levine (September 9, 1905 – July 31, 1987) was an American film distributor, financier, and producer.

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Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress.

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Judith Crist

Judith Crist (Klein; May 22, 1922 – August 7, 2012) was an American film critic and academic.

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Karen Akers

Karen Akers (born October 13, 1945) is an American actress and singer, who has appeared on Broadway, and in cabaret and film.

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Kate Hudson

Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress and singer.

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Kremlin

The Moscow Kremlin (Moskovskiy Kreml'), or simply the Kremlin, is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia.

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La dolce vita

La dolce vita (Italian for 'the sweet life' or 'the good life'Kezich, 203) is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini. 8½ and la dolce vita are 1960s French films, 1960s Italian-language films, films produced by Angelo Rizzoli, films scored by Nino Rota, films set in Rome, films shot in Rome, films that won the Best Costume Design Academy Award, films with screenplays by Federico Fellini, French comedy-drama films, italian comedy-drama films and italian-language French films.

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La Strada

La strada (The Road) is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. 8½ and La Strada are best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners, films scored by Nino Rota and films with screenplays by Federico Fellini.

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Leo Catozzo

Leo Catozzo (10 December 1912 – 4 March 1997) was an Italian award-winning film editor.

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Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses.

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Liliane Montevecchi

Liliane Dina Montevecchi (October 13, 1932 – June 29, 2018) was a French actress, dancer, and singer.

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List of films voted the best

This is a list of films voted the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public.

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List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Italy has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the conception of the award.

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List of submissions to the 36th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

This is a list of submissions to the 36th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States.

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Living in Oblivion

Living in Oblivion is a 1995 American independent satirical black comedy film written and directed by Tom DiCillo, and starring Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle von Zerneck, James LeGros and Peter Dinklage in his film debut. 8½ and Living in Oblivion are films about film directors and producers and self-reflexive films.

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Love in the City (1953 film)

Love in the City (L'amore in città) is a 1953 Italian anthology film composed of six segments, each with its own director. 8½ and Love in the City (1953 film) are films with screenplays by Federico Fellini.

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Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter.

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Madeleine Lebeau

Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau (10 June 1923 – 1 May 2016) was a French film actress who also appeared in American films, most notably Casablanca.

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Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor and one of the country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century.

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Maria Antonietta Beluzzi

Maria Antonietta Beluzzi (26 July 1930 – 6 August 1997) was an Italian actress who appeared in a number of films in her native country.

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Mario Pisu

Mario Pisu (21 May 1910 – 17 July 1976) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

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Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard (born 30 September 1975) is a French actress.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker.

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Mary Stuart Masterson

Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28, 1966) is an American actress and director.

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Maury Yeston

Maury Yeston (born October 23, 1945) is an American composer, lyricist and music theorist.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Metafiction

Metafiction is a form of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work.

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Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian director and filmmaker.

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Mickey One

Mickey One is a 1965 American neo noir crime film starring Warren Beatty and directed by Arthur Penn from a script by Alan Surgal.

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Ministry of Culture (Italy)

The Ministry of Culture (Ministero della Cultura - MiC) is the ministry of the Government of Italy in charge of national museums and the monuments historiques.

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Mino Doro

Mino Doro (6 May 1903 – 13 April 1992) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred films between 1932 and 1970.

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Modernization theory

Modernization theory holds that as societies become more economically modernized, wealthier and more educated, their political institutions become increasingly liberal democratic.

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Moscow International Film Festival

The Moscow International Film Festival (Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál; abbreviated as MIFF) is a film festival first held in Moscow in 1935 and became regular since 1959.

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Movie camera

A movie camera (also known as a film camera and cine-camera) is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either onto film stock or an image sensor, in order to produce a moving image to display on a screen.

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Nanni Moretti

Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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Nastro d'Argento

The (plural: Nastri d'Argento; English: Silver Ribbon), is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists).

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Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor

The Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned each year, since 1946, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ("Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists"), the association of Italian film critics.

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Nastro d'Argento for Best Director

The Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) for Best Director (Nastro d'argento al regista del miglior film) is a film award bestowed annually as part of the Nastro d'Argento awards since 1946, organized by the Italian National Association of Film Journalists (Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani or SNGCI), the national association of Italian film critics.

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Nastro d'Argento for Best Producer

The Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned each year, since 1946, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ("Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists"), the association of Italian film critics.

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Nastro d'Argento for Best Score

The Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned each year, since 1946, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ("Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists"), the association of Italian film critics.

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Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay

The Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned each year, since 1948, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics.

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Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress

The Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a film award presented annually since 1946 by the Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ("Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists"), the association of Italian film critics.

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National Board of Review

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is a non-profit organization of New York City area film enthusiasts.

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National Board of Review Award for Best International Film

The National Board of Review Award for Best International Film (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2022) is one of the annual awards given (since 1934) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

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National Board of Review: Top Five International Films

The Top Five International Films (known as Top Five Foreign Language Films prior to 2022) is one of the awards presented annually by the National Board of Review, this category is one of the few awards that is not presented individually but instead as a list of usually five films.

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Neoavanguardia

The Neoavanguardia ("New Vanguard") was a postmodern avant-garde Italian literary movement oriented towards radical forms of experimentation with language and art.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Film Critics Circle

The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) is an American film critic organization founded in 1935 by Wanda Hale from the New York ''Daily News''.

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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle.

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New York Post

The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian and American actress, model and producer.

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Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria) is a 1957 drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. 8½ and Nights of Cabiria are best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners, films scored by Nino Rota, films set in Rome and films with screenplays by Federico Fellini.

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Nine (2009 live-action film)

Nine is a 2009 romantic musical drama film directed and co-produced by Rob Marshall from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, based on the stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1963 film 8½. 8½ and Nine (2009 live-action film) are films about film directors and producers and films shot in Rome.

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Nine (musical)

Nine is a musical initiated by and with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit.

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Nino Rota

Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota, was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.

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No Direction Home

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan is a 2005 documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th-century American popular music and culture.

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Olimpia Cavalli

Olimpia Cavalli (30 August 1930 – 29 March 2012) was an Italian actress.

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Osmosis

Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively-permeable membrane from a region of high water potential (region of lower solute concentration) to a region of low water potential (region of higher solute concentration), in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides.

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Paul Mazursky

Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky (April 25, 1930 – June 30, 2014) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor.

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Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991.

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Penélope Cruz

Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress.

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Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway, (born 5 April 1942) is a British film director, screenwriter and artist.

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Piero Gherardi

Piero Gherardi (20 November 1909 – 8 June 1971) was the Costume and Set Designer of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and 8½, winning an Oscar for each film in the category of Best Costume Design.

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Planet Parade

Planet Parade (Parad planet) is a 1984 Soviet fantasy drama film directed by Vadim Abdrashitov.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, actor, and dramatist.

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Raul Julia

Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Rimini

Rimini (Rémin or; Ariminum) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.

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Rob Marshall

Robert Doyle Marshall Jr.http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/getinvolved/alumniawards/all_honorees_2018june1.pdf (born October 17, 1960) is an American film and theater director, producer, and choreographer.

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Robert Musil

Robert Musil (6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Romagna

Romagna (Rumâgna) is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Rossella Falk

Rossella Falk (10 November 1926 – 5 May 2013) was an Italian actress.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Sandra Milo

Sandra Milo (born Salvatrice Elena Greco; 11 March 1933 – 29 January 2024) was an Italian actress, television personality, author, and musician.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.

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Self-reference

Self-reference is a concept that involves referring to oneself or one's own attributes, characteristics, or actions.

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Sergio Amidei

Sergio Amidei (30 October 1904 – 14 April 1981) was an Italian screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement.

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Sight and Sound

Sight and Sound (formerly written Sight & Sound) is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Sophia Loren

Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stanley Kramer

Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message films" (he called his movies heavy dramas) and a liberal movie icon.

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Stardust Memories

Stardust Memories is a 1980 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars alongside Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault, and Tony Roberts. 8½ and Stardust Memories are films about film directors and producers.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films".

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The Great Movies

The Great Movies is the name of several publications, both online and in print, from Roger Ebert, the American film critic and columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Leopard (1963 film)

The Leopard (lit) is a 1963 epic historical drama film directed by Luchino Visconti. 8½ and The Leopard (1963 film) are 1960s French films, 1960s Italian-language films, 1963 films and films scored by Nino Rota.

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The Man Without Qualities

The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Red Shoes (1948 film)

The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.

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The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012

The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012 was a worldwide opinion poll conducted by Sight & Sound and published in the magazine's September 2012 issue.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The White Sheik

The White Sheik (Lo sceicco bianco) is a 1952 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Brunella Bovo and Giulietta Masina. 8½ and The White Sheik are films scored by Nino Rota, films set in Rome, films shot in Rome and films with screenplays by Federico Fellini.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Time's All-Time 100 Movies

All-TIME 100 Movies is a list compiled by ''TIME'' magazine of the 100 "greatest" films that were released between March 3, 1923—when the first issue of TIME was published—and early 2005, when the list was compiled.

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Tom DiCillo

Thomas A. DiCillo (born August 14, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and musician.

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Tommy Tune

Thomas James Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer.

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Tullio Kezich

Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in Trieste – 17 August 2009 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and playwright, best known as the film critic for Corriere della Sera and for his award-winning biography of Italian director Federico Fellini.

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Tullio Pinelli

Tullio Pinelli (24 June 1908 – 7 March 2009) was an Italian screenwriter known for his work on the Federico Fellini films I Vitelloni, La Strada, La Dolce Vita and 8½.

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Tunisia

Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.

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Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.

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Vadim Abdrashitov

Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (Вадим Юсупович Абдрашитов, Вадим Йосыф улы Габдерәшитов; 19 January 1945 – 12 February 2023) was a Russian film director.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Variety Lights

Variety Lights (Luci del varietà) is a 1951 Italian romantic drama film produced, directed and written by Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada and starring Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, and Giulietta Masina. 8½ and variety Lights are films with screenplays by Federico Fellini.

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Viewfinder

In photography, a viewfinder is a small window the photographer looks through to see what a photo will look like before they capture it.

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades.

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Writer's block

Writer's block is a non-medical condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown.

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100 film italiani da salvare

The list of the 100 Italian films to be saved (100 film italiani da salvare) was created with the aim to report "100 films that have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".

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17th British Academy Film Awards

The 17th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1964, honoured the best films of 1963.

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1963 Cannes Film Festival

The 16th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 May 1963.

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3rd Moscow International Film Festival

The 3rd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1963.

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8 ½ $

8 $ (Vosem s polovinoi dollarov, Eight and a Half Dollars) is a 1999 Russian cult crime-comedy film by Grigori Konstantinopolsky.

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8½ Women

Women is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway and starring John Standing, Matthew Delamere, and Vivian Wu.

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See also

Films produced by Angelo Rizzoli

Films with screenplays by Federico Fellini

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8½

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