![]() Notice how everything Guido says about the film he is making turns out to be true of 8½, even the sailor doing a soft-shoe dance how all the screen tests are for roles in the film we are seeing how some camera movements create an ambiguity between Guido, the director in the film, and Fellini, the director of the film, thus taking self-reference one step beyond the work to its maker. ![]() 8½ is a film about making a film, and the film that is being made is 8½. Self-referential enough, but only the beginning. Hence 8 ½ is like an opus number: this is film number eight and a half in the Fellini catalog. By 1963, Federico Fellini had made, by his count, seven and a half films. ![]() If the mark of modernism in art is self-reference, 8 ½ surely goes beyond any predecessor in having itself as its subject. 8½: a bizarre and puzzling title, but one precisely appropriate for this film, which announces in its first frame that modernism has reached the cinema.
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