Exclusive: Experience restored 35mm print of Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 in new trailer

Starring Marcello Mastroianni, 8 ½ follows Guido Anselmi, a director “torn between mistress Sandra Milo and wife Anouk Aimée, while caught idea-less on the verge of an ambitious new production,” per the film’s logline. Guido “escapes into childhood memories and sexual fantasies, until, in the course of a climactic ballet around his space-age set, he finally finds his subject. Fellini’s seemingly autobiographical, seamless interweaving of reality, memory and dream has influenced a generation of movie-makers.”

One of those filmmakers was Martin Scorsese, who once called 8 ½ “a touchstone for me, in so many ways,” specifically lauding “the freedom, the sense of invention, the underlying rigor and the deep core of longing, the bewitching, physical pull of the camera movements and the compositions.” 

The new 35mm print will go on tour after its initial New York City run. Check out the poster below:

Janus Films poster 8 1/2