Argent Films to Release Federico Fellini's 8½ (Updated)

British distributors Argent Films have revealed that they are planning to bring to Blu-ray legendary Italian director Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, and Anouk Aimée. The preliminary release date set by the distributors is November 11th.

Marcello Mastroianni plays a character based on the film's director, Federico Fellini. Guido Anselmi (Mastroianni) is a successful filmmaker who takes a rest at a spa between projects, but finds himself creatively bankrupt and constantly pestered by his writer, several actresses, his wife and his mistress. The director begins to re-live moments from his past as he becomes increasingly distanced from the present. The film won the Oscar Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Piero Gherardi) in 1964.

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Special Features:

• "Lost Sequence - Fellini on Fellini": exclusive 50-minute documentary where Fellini talks (sometimes in English) about life, love and making 8 ½, as well as that film's famously lost alternative ending.
• Interview with director Lina Wertmuller (the 1st woman ever to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director); she started as Fellini's Assistant Director on 8 ½. We caught up with her in Rome, where she invites us into her home to reminisce about her friend - Federico.
• Tribute to Fellini's speech on receiving his Life Achievement Academy Award.
• Theatrical Trailers