Tagged Michelangelo Antonioni

Feature image: Michelangelo Antonioni during the filming of Chung Kuo: Cina (China) “It was a harsh and courteous battle that had neither winners or losers. A compromise came out of it, and the film that I f...

Introduction and Context: (Up)Setting the Stage “It was the mid-1970s,” reminisces a Chinese blogger, writing over three decades later in November 2009. “I was in my third year of primary school … in a small J...

Argento’s World of Giallo Dario Argento (b. 1940-) has been making gialli for a long time. His first three features – L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, 1970), Il gatto a no...

The objective of this article is to examine the hyperrealist, feminist tactics of Chantal Akerman’s early 1970s films Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles(1975) and, especially, Je tu il elle (19...

Michelangelo Antonioni’s name seems to have fallen somewhat into disrepute in US film culture over the last several decades, his main concerns – alienation and the collapse of communication – the subject of a c...

Whilst looking at the long and illustrious history of Technicolor films, Murray Pomerance uncovers the remarkable uses Michelangelo Antonioni put the Technicolor process through in his 1964 Red Desert and beyond.

Tony McKibbin examines what he calls the “ontological problem of nudity in Michelangelo Antonioni’s work”. A refreshing focus on an aspect of Antonioni’s films not often discussed in commentaries on his work.

Blowup (1966 UK 111 mins) Source: Chapel Films Prod Co: Bridge Films/MGM Prod: Carlo Ponti Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Scr: Michelangelo Antonioni, Edward Bond, Tonino Guerra, from the short story Las Ba...