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Michelangelo Antonioni (/ ˌ æ n t oʊ n i ˈ oʊ n i / AN-toh-nee-OH-nee or / æ n ˌ t oʊ-/ an-TOH-, Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo antoˈnjoːni]; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian director and filmmaker.He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" —L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962)—and the English-language film Blowup (1966). His films have been described as "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that feature elusive plots ...
Michelangelo Antonioni. Writer: Blow-Up. Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the difficulty of precisely describing their category is itself the very quintessence of Antonioni's films. Among the most-cited contributions of Antonioni's cinema ...
6 days ago · Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director, cinematographer, and producer noted for his avoidance of realistic narrative in favor of character study and a vaguely metaphorical series of incidents. His major films included Le amiche (1955), L’avventura (1960), L’eclisse (1962), and Blow-Up (1966).
Sep 27, 2012 · This is the centenary year of Michelangelo Antonioni. He was born on 29 September 1912 and died in 2007 at the age of 94, having worked until almost the very end.
Aug 1, 2007 · Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian director whose chilly depictions of alienation were cornerstones of international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense measures of admiration ...
Jul 31, 2007 · Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian director whose chilly depictions of alienation were cornerstones of international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense measures of admiration ...
Jul 31, 2007 · Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian director whose canticles of alienation dominated international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense admiration, denunciation and confusion, died Monday at ...
Jul 30, 2007 · Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large.
Aug 27, 2015 · After sampling early period Antonioni, you’ll be ready to tackle the quartet for which he is best known. L’avventura, one of the cornerstones of European cinema, famously met with hostility upon its release during that incredible period which saw the release of films such as Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959), Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960), Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960) and La dolce vita (Federico Fellini 1960).
After the war, like many first-time directors, Antonioni learnt the ropes by making documentaries, directing a number of short films, notable among them N.U. Nettezza urbana (1948) and L’amorosa menzogna (1949), before attempting a feature film with Cronaca di un amore (Story of a Love Affair, 1950).Although the presence of the actor Massimo Girotti and the choice of a plot centred on the theme of the criminal couple were an explicit homage to Visconti’s Obsession, in this debut film was ...
