One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963) marks the moment when the director’s always-personal approach to filmmaking fully embraced self-reflexivity, pioneering a stream-of-consciousness style that darts exuberantly among flashbacks, dream sequences, and carnivalesque reality, and turning one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.—The Criterion Collection
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Join us Thursday evenings from May 16 through June 20 for weekly outdoor film screenings in the John and Louise Bryson Courtyard at the Benton. Bring your blankets, chairs, and snacks to relax and enjoy carefully selected films related to topics in our current exhibitions (on view through June 23).
Admission is free and open to the public. Galleries open until 10 pm for Art After Hours.