The previous Blu-ray looked pretty good at the time and still does, though its weaknesses show through a bit more now. This 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation doesn't use that master and instead makes use of a new one sourced from a brand new 4K restoration, which was scanned from the 35mm original negative. Criterion previously released the film on Blu-ray in its own individual edition, using an older high-definition master. Bringing together fourteen of the director’s greatest spectacles, all beautifully restored, this centenary box set is a monument to an artist who conjured a cinematic universe all his own: a vision of the world as a three-ring circus in which his innermost infatuations, fears, and fantasies take center stage.įor the eighth dual-layer disc in their new massive box set, Essential Fellini, The Criterion Collection presents 8½ in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. He began his career working in the slice-of-life poetry of neorealism, and though he soon spun off on his own freewheeling creative axis, he never lost that grounding, evoking his dreams, memories, and obsessions on increasingly grand scales in increasingly grand productions teeming with carnivalesque imagery and flights of phantasmagoric surrealism while maintaining an earthy, embodied connection to humanity. The Italian maestro is defined by his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. One hundred years after his birth, Federico Fellini still stands apart as a giant of the cinema. See more details, packaging, or compare Synopsis