Word: mastroiannis
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...cinematic catharsis is performed on two levels. The ostensible story tells of a director (Marcello Mastroianni) who has made a commitment to do a film, has the organization and backing all set, and is struggling to find an idea. On a more mystical plane, 8½ casts light on his condition in a series of dream-and-memory sequences probing back into childhood. The film opens silently on a tunnel clogged with stalled cars and buses. As Mastroianni tries to start his car, fumes surge into it and he begins to suffocate. Mastroianni finally floats in fantasy...
...Best Actor: Burt Lancaster for Bird Man of Alcatraz, Jack Lemmon for Days of Wine and Roses, Marcello Mastroianni for Divorce-Italian Style, Peter O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia, and Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird. Peck has been nominated five times, but he has never won an Oscar. Mastroianni is the first foreign actor ever nominated for best actor for a performance in a foreign-language film...
Happy Ring. Mastroianni plays a middle-aged movie director planning a new picture but not quite sure what he wants to say. To get away from it all, he holes up at an expensive but sleazy thermal resort, where he relives his life in memory and in dreams full of Freudian images...
...sees in a pretty nurse (Claudia Cardinale) the symbol of purity and later recalls his childhood in a Catholic school, where he was seduced by a middle-aged crone. Mastroianni in Oedipal embrace with his mother is followed by Mastroianni in a harem being lovingly bathed in a vat by all the women in his life. Finally, Mastroianni has a vision that the film he wants to do is about the people he knows, not his fantasies. He dances in a happy ring with his actors and actresses...
...help himself create this chaos. Fellini assembled an impressive cast that included some of his most devoted disciples-Mastroianni, Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo. Even when shooting began, none of the actors knew what the film was about. There was no script, and the seven existing copies of an "outline" were locked in a safe each night. Only the egomathematical title itself has a concise and plausible explication: it represents the number of films Fellini has made until now-eight full-length features and two quarter-length films, the latest of which was The Temptation of Doctor Antonio from Boccaccio...