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Year
1963
Runtime
138 min.
Director
Federico Fellini
Genre
Drama
Rating *
8.0
Votes *
81,107
Checks
19,337
Favs
2,347
Dislikes
285
Favs/checks
12.1% (1:8)
Favs/dislikes
8:1
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  1. Big A2's avatar

    Big A2

    So according to these comments this is either the greatest movie ever or the worst. 12 years 4 months ago
  2. George Bailey's avatar

    George Bailey

    He counted his movies as a co-director as a ½ movie. He made 3 movies with other directors and 6 by himself. So 8½ was his 8½ film... 13 years 4 months ago
  3. myopia's avatar

    myopia

    Definitely an important movie, but I don't agree that it was simply random. Important for modernism and futurism I'd say. On Wikipedia, someone compares this to Ulysses (Joyce), which is apt. 12 years 9 months ago
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  1. This movie ranks #2 in Roy Menarini's Il Grande Cinema Italiano
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  2. This movie ranks #5 in FilmTV's The Best Italian Films
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  3. This movie ranks #7 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
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  4. This movie ranks #7 in The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die
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  5. This movie ranks #12 in Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown
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  6. This movie ranks #16 in Academy Award - Best International Feature Film
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  7. This movie ranks #18 in Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
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  8. This movie ranks #22 in iCheckMovies's 1960s Top 100
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  9. This movie ranks #23 in Spike Lee's Essential List of Films for Filmmakers
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  10. This movie ranks #36 in ASC's 100 Milestone Films in Cinematography of the 20th Century
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  11. This movie ranks #41 in IMDb's 1960s Top 50
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  12. This movie ranks #44 in Academy Award - Best International Feature Film Nominees
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  13. This movie ranks #46 in Cahiers du Cinéma's 100 Films for an Ideal Cinematheque
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  14. This movie ranks #48 in IMDb's Independent Top 50
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  15. This movie ranks #51 in Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time
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  16. This movie ranks #67 in Empire's The 100 Best Films of World Cinema
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  17. This movie ranks #75 in Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century
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  18. This movie ranks #85 in François Truffaut's The Films in My Life
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  19. This movie ranks #96 in MovieSense 101
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  20. This movie ranks #101 in Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists
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  21. This movie ranks #105 in FOK!'s Film Top 250
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  22. This movie ranks #106 in Roger Ebert's Great Movies
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  23. This movie ranks #120 in Emma Beare's 501 Must-See Movies
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  24. This movie ranks #121 in 366 Weird Movies
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  25. This movie ranks #160 in The Criterion Collection
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  26. This movie ranks #166 in Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Narrative Films
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  27. This movie ranks #217 in Reddit Top 250
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  28. This movie ranks #247 in The New York Times's Book of Movies
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  29. This movie ranks #256 in Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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  30. This movie ranks #287 in Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life
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  31. This movie ranks #306 in BFI's 360 Classic Feature Films Project
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  32. This movie ranks #390 in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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  33. This movie ranks #501 in Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
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  34. This movie ranks #539 in UNESCO's Memory of the World
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  35. This movie ranks #632 in David Thomson's Have You Seen?
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