American actress and comedian, known as April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation (2009 to 2015) and for Legion (2017 to 2019) and the second season of The White Lotus (2022).
loved
Maybe this is an unoriginal choice, but this film never gets old. Plus, I just spent five months in Italy, so the country is fresh on my mind. I shot a movie and season two of The White Lotus there, and I thought a lot about Fellini because, at times, we were somewhat close to Cinecittà. 8½ captures the magic and insanity of making movies—and there’s nothing I love more.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Aubrey Plaza, the entry for 8½.
Polish filmmaker; Ida (2013) won the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and he won Best Director at Cannes for Cold War (2018) and for Fatherland (2026).
loved
Later I fell in love with Amarcord and 8½. The latter has become one of these comfort films I go back to watch every now and again, to reassure myself about the point of it all.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Paweł Pawlikowski, the entry for 8½.
Chilean director and screenwriter of Gloria (2013), A Fantastic Woman (2017), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Disobedience (2017) and The Wonder (2022).
loved
In many ways, 8½ defined what modern cinema is. I feel its influence all over the place.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Sebastián Lelio, the entry for 8½.
American filmmaker, cinematographer and music-video director; shot Madonna's Truth or Dare, won a Grammy for Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales video, and directed the documentary California Typewriter (2016).
loved
La strada, 8½, and La dolce vita are my favorite Fellini films.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Doug Nichol, the entry for La dolce vita.
American film director of Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and The Irishman; founder of the Film Foundation, which restores and preserves films.
loved
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).
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Martin Scorsese, the entry for 8½.
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