Tarantino's Eight and a Half
Quentin Tarantino's movie #8 'and a half' (Death Proof being only half a show) is, appropriately enough, both a film about Hollywood, and a story of a career in crisis (cf. Otto e mezzo). One wonders whether he is aware of this coincidence (let's not misuse the word 'irony' - unless he is not, in which case it would be ironic.) The comparison is compounded by the fact that Rob Marshall's musical reworking of the Fellini film was called Nine, (whereas Tarantino calls this his 'Ninth'). But then I suspect he was never much of a European film fan.