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#9. 8
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Dir: Federico Fellini
Genre: Drama
Year: 1963

SephG Superlative: The greatest Italian movie ever made

Easily the greatest movie about making a movie of all time, 8 feels so incredibly intimate, honest, and personal. I generally sour on films that are so transparently about their own directors, but this is the one exception. I think what makes this quasi-autobiography so special is the fact that Fellini isn't just giving us a day in his life, but rather he is clearly wrestling with his own issues--artistic integrity, personal regrets, morality--and the film is a glimpse into his own consciousness.

8 is a dreamlike meditation on all of the things that you'd expect to ail an international superstar filmmaker. The women in his life come and go, yet there was always that one that he cannot seem to escape. He portrays his struggle between creating fine art and something commercially viable, wondering what the point of it all is. This struggle is telegraphed brilliantly by Marcello Mastroianni, who is just about the coolest dude you could possibly pick to portray yourself (good job, Fellini). And the absurdism, the imagination, and the surreal quality of the ending is just the perfect reflection of the inner machinations of one of cinema's most genius minds.
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