Original 8 1/2 (Eight and a Half) Movie Posters

8½ (Eight and a Half) movie posters — 8½ (1963) — Federico Fellini's masterwork of Italian art cinema, in which Marcello Mastroianni plays a director lost in memory, fantasy, and the impossibility of his own creative vision — is one of the most frequently cited films in the history of cinema, and the original Italian campaign materials produced for its release are among the most prized items in European poster collecting. Shop for original Italian 2-fogli for 8½ — the cornerstone item: large-format prints produced by the Roman and Milanese lithography houses in the vivid, illustrated style that defines the Italian cinema poster tradition of the early 1960s. The image of Mastroianni in his wide-brimmed hat against a parade of women communicates Fellini's surrealist autobiographical world more efficiently than any synopsis could. These were printed for a single theatrical run and first-release examples in fine condition are now genuinely scarce. International variants are well represented in this collection. French grandes and Spanish one-sheets offer independent visual interpretations of the same material — the French printing tradition bringing its own graphic sensibility to a film that was itself partly a meditation on French and Italian cultural relations. American one-sheets from the Embassy Pictures release are more available and represent a strong entry point into this collecting area. Browse alongside our Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni pages for the full context of their extraordinary collaboration. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.