8½ theme - Nino Rota

After "Nine" the film... something really Italian to hear and enjoy!

I have a query - In the scene where Luisa walks out on the hero at the screen test being watched , just after she leaves and before the hero leaves in a car, two women whose test results are screened are HUMMING a song, a rhumba (?) , it is a famous number , can someone help.I would like to know its title....

Young people today dont realize how revolutionary this film was at the time, joining reality, dream, imagination, current events, sexual fantasies &tc. Today this is common in films, but someone started it, and it was Fellini. All of this with great actors, beautiful b/w images & the splendid music of Nino Rota. Genius!

That's absolutely true regarding this absolutely brilliant movie. As regarding young people of today, well, I consider myself to be young enough and still I think that 8½ is truly a masterpiece.

Glad to hear that, & today you can rent DVDs and enjoy the great masters, Fellini, Kurosawa, Fassbinder, Truffaut, Ettore Scola, Taviani..
But Fellini hated TV because of the small screen, he wanted his actresses to be seen in giant size in a darkened movie theater, this makes a big psychological difference for the viewer. Cheers from Brazil!

I"m from Brasil, and I agree. Cinema must have the dark room and all the things that are important to give us the magic sensation in the theater. By the way, 81/2 is a masterpiece. Fellini is a genius, and, of course Nino Rota also.

sans doute le meilleur film de Fellini. Qui ne serait jamais devenu ce qu'il est sans la musique de Nino Rota.
Merci à jamais...

I haven't read all the comments here, but I hope y'all notice the tribute to this music Danny Elfman pays in his "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" soundtrack.

secondo me il più bel film italiano di sempre.

Rise and shine, woodchuck chuckers!