
Juliet of the Spirits1965
Both on Top 10 lists by Chris Hegedus and Donald Fagen, both directed by Federico Fellini, and both starring Sandra Milo


Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was THE BEAUTIFUL CONFUSION, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.
Jack Harlow
Mar 2026
Alton Brown#1
Donald Fagen#1
Paul Feig#1
Oren Moverman#1
Greg Mottola#1tie
Götz Spielmann#1
Chris Hegedus#1
Rian Johnson#1
Allan Arkush#1tie
Terence Nance#2
Mary Ellen Mark#2
Ari Aster#4
Sebastián Lelio#4
Roger Corman#4
Flying Lotus#5
Nicolas Roeg#5
Mike Allred#5
Atom Egoyan#6
Stella Mozgawa#6
Martin Scorsese#8
Paweł Pawlikowski#9tie
Aubrey Plaza#10
Monte Hellman#10tie1 streaming audio track
Commentary: Tanya Zalcon, Gideon Bachmann, and Antonio Monda

Terry Gilliam on 8½

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

Barbara Steele: Memories of Fellini

The Last Sequence

Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert

Sandra Milo on 8½

Lina Wertmüller on 8½

Vittorio Storaro on 8½

Fellini on “Second Look,” Episode 4

Mira Nair on 8½

Mary Karr on 8½

Paul Feig on 8½

Michael Cunningham on 8½

Rian Johnson on 8½

8½
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Hotels on Film
Position 5
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Marcello Mastroianni at 100
Position 6
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Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time: Directors’ Poll
Position 30
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Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time: Critics’ Poll
Position 30
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Foreign-Language Oscar Winners
Position 8
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Essential Fellini
Position 7
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Film Plays Itself
Position 6
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Both on Top 10 lists by Chris Hegedus and Donald Fagen, both directed by Federico Fellini, and both starring Sandra Milo
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