Otto e Mezzo
Sunday, August 30, 2009 by Billy
 I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film that could help bury forever all those dead things we carry within ourselves. Instead, I'm the one without the courage to bury anything at all. When did I go wrong? I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it all the same. 
Guido, in 8½ by F. Fellini)
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The present blog certainly comes as a joke, located as it is between 8 and 9 in the Blogging by Numbers series of blogs I have been unwinding for several weeks. Yet 8½ by Federico Fellini was a movie that remains worth seeing, almost half a century later, far from the usual hyped-up blockbusters now released every week. Also, the music by Nino Rota is justly famous.
The movie depicts the crisis of a creative mind, the despondency of an artist who doesn't succeed in creating any more. 
[BbN #8.5]
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From this movie on, Federico Fellini took up a style of Realistic Fantasy, where extravagance is more real than reality, filled up with humanity, fantasizing and imagination.
It's not the best music of Nino Rotta. This film is really amazing.
For the music choice, I prefer the music of the month. Money JUngle is one of the greatest jazz LP, I've never heard. The duke is a great pianist and not a conductor.
Your blog is fun.
Best regards
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Ah! It takes me back to the days when I was filming with my colleagues Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve! I starred with them in Touche pas à la Femme Blanche! (Non toccare la donna bianca!) by Marco Ferreri.
Yeah right! I was an extra running in the dust outside of Paris for days playing an Indian squaw, but you see me on screen for a nano second! Besides, I prefer Fellini's film and although Rota's music in 8½ is quite famous, his music for The Godfather is universal!