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This screening took place on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 2:00 pmYukon Theatre

70 Years of Yukon Cinema! In celebrating auteur cinema form the 20th Century, how does one pick just one film by the great filmmakers of the 50s and 60s? This fever dream by The Maestro is a good start.

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s  8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.