A film of in-the-moment make, rather than write, what you know, 8 1/2 brought a production technique that Federico Fellini would embrace for much of the rest of his career. An idea sparked at, as is the case with many great tales of classic films, just the moment he was about to announce defeat.
Fellini’s improvisational method of filmmaking is looked into in my introduction to his classic semi-autobiographical film. The introduction in the video below was recorded specially for it based on the rough version that I had written before the screening held in December 2025 at The Little Theatre in Bath as part of Picturehouse’s ‘Lynchspirations’ season, where the film was shown as an inspiration for David Lynch’s Inland Empire.
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