The Dryden will screen 8½ (Federico Fellini, Italy/France 1963, 138 min., 35mm, Italian w/subtitles) as part of the Academy Awards at 90 series.

Fellini's rapturous masterpiece stars the director's parallel persona Marcello Mastroianni as a filmmaker lost in life, unable to find the motivation for his next movie. As Mastroianni escapes to a spa, he realizes that neither his wife nor his mistress understands him, and he drifts into a search for purpose. Flashing backwards and forwards, 8½ plays out the filmmaker's youth, ambition, hopes, and fears in some of cinema's most spectacular sequences, as Fellini celebrates life's unpredictable path.

[source: George Eastman Museum, 2018-Mar-12]