8 (2019)

Cheating doesn't make you a player.

"8” is a narrative short film about a selfish billiard player that, while hustling for living, struggles to seduce a quiet woman pool master inside an isolated saloon in New Mexico.

Directed by: Gabriele Fabbro

Written by: Gabriele Fabbro

Music by: Sean Goldman

Starring: Esteban de la Isla, Jordan Knapp, Don Baldaramos, Areg Noya

Genre: Romance

Released: 2019-04-05

Runtime: 18 minutes

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8½ (2019): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• 8½ screened at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival in April to "almost universal acclaim" and was Italy's official entry in the later 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Grand Prize.
• 8½ marks the first time that actress Claudia Cardinale was allowed to dub her own dialogue; previously her voice was thought to be too throaty and, coupled with her Tunisian accent, was considered undesirable.
• Released in the United States on 25 June 1963 by Joseph E. Levine, who had bought the rights sight unseen, the film was screened at the Festival Theatre in New York City in the presence of Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni.
• An international co-production between France and Italy, the film was shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and features a score by Nino Rota, with costume and set designs by Piero Gherardi.
• When shooting began on 9 May 1962, Eugene Walter recalled Fellini taking "a little piece of brown paper tape" and sticking it near the viewfinder of the camera.
• He hired cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo, among key personnel.
• Perplexed by the seemingly chaotic, incessant improvisation on the set, Deena Boyer, the director's American press officer at the time, asked for a rationale.
• The film ranked 10th on Cahiers du Cinéma's Top 10 Films of the Year List in 1963.
• In 1987, a group of thirty European intellectuals and filmmakers voted Otto e mezzo the most important European film ever made.
• Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, and Eddra Gale portray the various women in Guido's life.
• The film ranked 7th in BBC's 2018 list of The 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films voted by 209 film critics from 43 countries around the world.

Source: Wikipedia

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