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Biography
Date of Birth
29 September 1912, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Date of Death
30 July 2007, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Spouse
Enrica Antonioni (1986 - 30 July 2007) (his death)
Letizia Balboni (1942 - ?)
Texts
Colour, colour, colour. I came across Michelangelo Antonioni's work and world by accident when I caught his film "Red Desert" on TV one day. It was his first film in colour and I was just blown away by how anyone working in film could use the colours to tell the story. The colours just washed over me - it ws all visually stunning, a living, breathing work of art on the canvas of film. No-one has come close in achieving that. The cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, is the only filmaker I know with his use of colour (everything bathed in the light of Heaven) who has come any where close in using colours in such an innovative way. No surprise to later find that Michelangelo had so many things like trees painted so he could get each scene just right. Landscapes aren't an accident in his work; they are there to tell the story as surely as the actors speak the words or the writers write the write.
Astonishing.
The cinematopher of the film, Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004), should not be forgotten for his contribution.
I tried to represent the colours on the "Red Desert" pages. The pages are there to try and convey the colours - nothing else. Of course I failed but console myself with the fact that anyone attempting it would fail. There has only ever been one maestro and he died on the same day as that other great European film director, Ingmar Bergman.
I'm just surprised, really surprised that there isn't more (uniquely 'more', I mean, about the man and the work) on the web. A kind of halfway home for anyone interested in this genius.
Honestly, "Red Desert" is one of those films you have to see before you die. Direct links are here to its Dvd releases at
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© - Paul Page, 2013.
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With "L'Avventura" he piqued the world's curiosity. With "La Notte and L'Eclisse", he mystified audiences and broke hearts. With "Red Desert", his first color picture, he blurred all the lines between art, cinema, and still photography. Continuing his creative explosion with "Blow-Up", "Zabriskie Point", "The Passenger", and "The Identification of a Woman", Michelangelo Antonioni cemented his reputation as the most innovative and artistic filmmaker of his generation. With a plethora of illustrations, drawn in part from Antonioni's own archives, this book explores his life and career from his earliest documentaries to his latest collaborations.
Source: TASCHEN - Michelangelo Antonioni: The Investigation 1912-2007 (Basic Film)
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'A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality'. Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of "Blow-Up" and "L'Avventura", who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision.
Source: The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema
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Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema’s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s—"L’avventura", "La Notte", "L‘eclisse"—are justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, Antonioni’s greatest works. Writing in an accessible style that evokes Antonioni’s expansive use of space, Pomerance discusses "The Red Desert", "Blow-Up", "Professione: Reporter (The Passenger)", "Zabriskie Point", "Identification of a Woman", "The Mystery of Oberwald", "Beyond the Clouds", and "The Dangerous Thread of Things" to analyze the director’s subtle and complex use of color. Infusing his open-ended inquiry with both scholarly and personal reflection, Pomerance evokes the full range of sensation, nuance, and equivocation that became Antonioni’s signature.
Source:
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema
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Zabriskie Point Film Poster
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