Federico Fellini's '8 1/2' at The Nightlight

The legendary and dreamy “8½", directed Federico Fellini, is coming to The Nightlight—a part of our 12-year anniversary film lineup
You won't want to miss seeing this masterpiece on the big screen. Tickets available now
Torn between mistress Sandra Milo and wife Anouk Aimée, while caught idea-less on the verge of an ambitious new production, movie director Marcello Mastroianni escapes into childhood memories and sexual fantasies, until, in the course of a climactic ballet around his space-age set, he finally finds his subject. Seamless, seemingly autobiographical interweaving of reality, memory, and dreams, a stylistic breakthrough and an influence on generations of moviemakers — but, of course, according to the maestro himself, “Of all my films, this has the least reference to personal facts…There is nothing in it beyond what can be seen.”
“8½ has always been a touchstone for me, in so many ways—the freedom, the sense of invention, the underlying rigor and the deep core of longing, the bewitching, physical pull of the camera movements and the compositions (another great black-and-white film: every image gleams like a pearl—again, shot by Gianni Di Venanzo). But it also offers an uncanny portrait of being the artist of the moment, trying to tune out all the pressure and the criticism and the adulation and the requests and the advice, and find the space and the calm to simply listen to oneself.”
– Martin Scorsese