Famous Who Fell Dec 31, 2007
Italian filmmaker whose depiction of modern-day malaise made him a symbol of art-house cinema ("Blow-Up," "L'Avventura.") July 30. AUGUST. (Fox News)
Who died in 2007 Dec 29, 2007
Michelangelo Antonioni, who died the same day as Bergman, explored alienation in films such as "L'Avventura." Ousmane Sembene of Senegal gained worldwide honors through such films as "Moolaade." ... Italian filmmaker whose depiction of modern-day malaise made him a symbol of art-house cinema ("Blow-Up," "L'Avventura.") July 30. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
AFI AWARDS 2007 Moments of Significance Announced Dec 28, 2007
Antonioni's career also spanned more than 40 years, with landmark films like L'AVVENTURA, BLOWUP, LA NOTTE and THE PASSENGER, each marked by the director's innovative approach to narrative storytelling. Bergman and Antonioni were artists emblematic of an era -- a time when audiences around the world sought out a challenging cinematic experience. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Artists and entertainers who died in 2007 Dec 12, 2007
Michelangelo Antonioni, who died the same day as Bergman, explored alienation in films such as "L'Avventura." Ousmane Sembene of Senegal gained worldwide honors through such films as "Moolaade.". Along with their artistry on the opera stage, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills had star personalities that brought them millions of fans who saw them only on television. (MSNBC -- News)
Besson's EuropaCorp buys Roissy Oct 16, 2007
Roissy, one of France's oldest international sales companies, has a rich catalog of classic films, among them dozens of international prize winners, including Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'avventura," Marco Ferreri's "La Grande bouffe," Jean-Jacques Annaud's "La Guerre du feu," Jean Renoir's "Les Bas-fonds" and Henri Verneuil's "Melodie en sous-sol.". Company's annual revenue is Euros 5-10 million ($7 million-$14 million), earned mainly from TV sales, but EuropaCorp will be bidding to grow that... (Variety)
Why Blockbuster is gaining on Netflix Aug 30, 2007
Throughout the week, you're delighted at the prospect of turning Saturday into a double-feature of "L'Avventura" and "A Passage to India," but come the weekend you find your mood affords nothing more epic than Harold and Kumar's trip to White Castle. Why our preferences shift so swiftly is ripe for psychological research, but for now it suffices to point out that such mood disorders make for a big problem for Netflix, which demands that you choose two days ago what you're going to watch today. (Salon)
Roll credits: Scorsese on Antonioni's expanding worlds Aug 12, 2007
But the sensation of seeing "L'Avventura" for the first time is still with me, as if it had been yesterday ... The more I saw "L'Avventura" - and I went back many times - the more I realized that Antonioni's visual language was keeping us focused on the rhythm of the world: the visual rhythms of light and dark, of architectural forms, of people positioned as figures in a landscape that always seemed terrifyingly vast ... Where almost every other movie I'd seen wound things up, "L'Avventura"... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Hejdå, Ciao Aug 8, 2007
Alienation has never been more gorgeously indulged than in L'Avventura a mystery that casually abandons its ostensible premise midway through and the stormy triumph of the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, which bestowed its Palme d'Or on Fellini's La Dolce Vita ... During the decade between L'Avventura (1960) and his gloriously foolish American debacle Zabriskie Point (1970), Antonioni's name was the equivalent of a chic designer label or a certain soign; state of mind what Andrew Sarris liked to call... (City Pages)
Masterful artists, fiercely individual Aug 6, 2007
And I resented critics who used the cryptic, gorgeous and innovative L'Avventura as a snob's club to bash Fellini's more accessible, entertaining La Dolce Vita. Bergman easily sparked parodies: the great short The Duve: The Dove, Woody Allen's Love and Death, and SCTV cutting up Bergman by way of Jerry Lewis. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The essential Bergman and Antonioni Bergman films Aug 6, 2007
Antonioni films "L'Avventura" (1960): A woman disappears, creating a void in the life of her best friend, played by Monica Vitti, Antonioni's great leading lady and, for a while, his lover ... If "Psycho" marked the arrival of the modern horror movie, with its big thrills and tidy endings, "L'Avventura" instantly introduced an alternative terror that would become an enduring art-house reality: the end of closure. (Boston Globe -- Living)
When Antonioni Blew Up the Movies Aug 6, 2007
His L'Avventura (1960), which sets up a mystery it never resolves, quickly became a rallying cry and furious debating point for serious film lovers ... Calling L'Avventura "easily, the film of the year," critic Pauline Kael hailed it for demonstrating "that the possibilities for serious, cultivated, personal film expression in the film medium were not yet exhausted." (The next year, she castigated La Notte, which traced the disintegration of a marriage during a 12-hour soiree, as a... (Time.com)
Enigmatic filmmaker known for innovative style Aug 5, 2007
Michelangelo Antonioni, the master Italian film director who depicted the emotional alienation of Italy's postwar generation in films such as L'Avventura and La Notte but achieved his greatest popular success with Blowup, has died at his home in Rome ... A former film critic and documentarian, Antonioni had a decade of feature filmmaking behind him when he achieved international renown in 1960 with L'Avventura (The Adventure) ... In L'Avventura, a young woman (Lea Massari), disappears on a... (The Age)
In memoriam: Masters of avant-garde cinema Aug 5, 2007
In 1960, Antonioni's L'Avventura announced a new style of Italian filmmaking, although it was greeted at the Cannes Film Festival by both cheers and boos. His slow-moving, poetic, visually stunning films challenged audiences. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1912-2007 and Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007 Aug 5, 2007
Antonioni, a documentarian in the 1940s before making his feature debut in 1950 with Story Of A Love Affair, tended to set his characters wandering - L'Avventura, Zabriskie Point, The Passenger and Il Grido are all road pictures, journeys that treat the actors as figures in landscapes. Bergman's journeys are more internal than Antonioni's. (Now Toronto)
Cinema loses two greats Aug 4, 2007
His best-known work is L'Avventura (1960), the story of a woman's disappearance and the subsequent search for her whereabouts by her two friends. When the movie ends, we still haven't an inkling of what happens to the missing woman. (Bangkok Post)
Helmers shared bleak beauty Aug 4, 2007
Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" probably did more to begin a shift in thinking than any other film, with Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima, mon amour," Antonioni's "L'avventura" and several other Bergman films soon following to fuel the fire ... Andrew Sarris coined the term Antoniennui, which conveys a lot, and "L'avventura" was famously booed when it premiered in Cannes in 1960. (Variety)
We all live in an Antonioni world Aug 3, 2007
The talk from Paris to Rome is of a cosmic joke by the supreme film buff Up There, like a crossover between Persona and L'Avventura staged by Woody Allen ... And from 1960 to 1962 he created a trilogy of absolute genius - L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse - painted in the most gorgeous black and white in the history of cinema ... L'Avventura was released in 1960, the same year as Federico Fellini's La Dolce vita (the two directors were very good friends). (Asia Times Online)
Before them, films were just movies Aug 3, 2007
The title of Lopate's essay records a giddy state of waiting for Antonioni's "sequel" to "L'Avventura" before he went to see it on opening night, the author recalls, "I began dreaming, for several nights in a row, preview versions of 'La Notte.' " It seems that he experienced no such ecstasy at the prospect of Bergman's "Virgin Spring." (Not that ecstasy would necessarily be an appropriate response to that bleak, brutal film about rape and revenge in medieval Sweden. Bergman was, as far as... (International Herald Tribune)
Italian director Antonioni buried in hometown Aug 3, 2007
The maker of groundbreaking movies such as L'Avventura and Blowup, Antonioni is regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century whose portrayals of modern angst and isolation have inspired directors the world over. Editor: Luan Shanglin. (Xinhuanet, China)
Films were driven by metaphor rather than action Aug 2, 2007
Movies such as "L'Avventura," "Zabriski Point" and "Blowup" were driven by metaphors rather than action, prompting peers and critics to both praise and shun his work ... When "L'Avventura" was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960 it attracted boos from some members of the audience, who rejected his non-narrative approach and themes of desolation. (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
* Curtain falls on modernist master Aug 2, 2007
Monica Vitti in the 1960 film L'Avventura, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni ... In his great 1960s films, L'Avventura, La Notte, Eclipse and Red Desert, but especially in L'Avventura, his masterpiece, it wasn't diagnosed as a chemical imbalance, but as a communicable social disease ... In that movie, the third part of the trilogy that included L'Avventura and La Notte, the world is consumed with stock-market fever. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Respects paid to Blow-Up director Aug 2, 2007
After winning favourable reviews at the Cannes Film Festival with 1957's The Cry, he scored his first real international success in 1960 with L'Avventura. Fans queued to pay their respects. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman Aug 2, 2007
We began by remarking on the death, the same day as Bergman's, of Michelangelo Antonioni the Italian director of L'Avventura, Eclipse, Blowup and The Passenger, and another prime depicter of modern alienation. R.C.. (Time.com)
Italy's father of alienation in film dies Aug 1, 2007
His films included Oscar-nominated Blow Up and the internationally acclaimed L'Avventura (The Adventure). One of the most international and politically minded of modern Italian filmmakers, he achieved fame in the 1960s and early '70s with a series of highly individual films. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Arthouse legend Antonioni dies Aug 1, 2007
L'avventura: (1960) Girl vanishes off the coast of Sicily. La Notte: (1961) Tale of infidelity, starring Marcello Mastroianni. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
The Eclipse of Antonioni Aug 1, 2007
His most celebrated films, including "L'Avventura" (1960), "La Notte" (1961), "L'Eclisse" (1962) "Il Deserto Rosso" (1964), and "Blow-Up" (1966), divided viewers ... Antonioni's next feature, "L'Avventura" (The Adventure), would win him world fame, starting with a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, despite a raucous screening during which viewers protesting the film's slow rhythm repeatedly yelled "Cut!" Some world-weary Northern Italian socialites go boating among volcanic... (New York Sun)
Obituary: Michelangelo Antonioni Aug 1, 2007
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Michelangelo Antonioni; known for his cool cinematic style Aug 1, 2007
The films of Michelangelo Antonioni, including "L'Avventura" and "Eclipse," were suffused with emotional alienation and cinematic richness ... The Italian films that made him an international figure -- "Il Grido" ("The Outcry," 1958), "L'Avventura" (1960), "La Notte" (1961), "L'Eclisse" ("The Eclipse," 1964), and "Red Desert" (1965) -- became synonymous with emotional alienation, people left empty by material success, irredeemably isolated ... To alienation, Mr. Antonioni added the absence of... (Boston Globe)
No fade to black Aug 1, 2007
In "L'Avventura," probably Antonioni's most acclaimed picture, the innovative use of space within the frame gave the story of urban lovers a mesmerizing air of existential alienation. What many others could accomplish only with pages and pages of dialogue, Antonioni could depict in one shot. (Boston Globe)
Italian filmmaker Antonioni was 94 Aug 1, 2007
The director of such classics as "L'Avventura" and "Blow Up" was 94 ... That vision came into full flowering, "L'Avventura" (1960), which debuted to jeers and hissing at the Cannes Film Festival, though it later won a special jury prize. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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ROME (AP) -- Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, best known for his movies "Blow-Up" and "L'Avventura," has died, officials and news reports said Tuesday. He was 94. (Sioux City Journal)
It's A Wrap For Film Great Aug 1, 2007
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 Last Update: 08:55 AM EDT. IT'S A WRAP FOR FILM GREAT. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Italy mourns director Antonioni Aug 1, 2007
With films like L'Avventura (The Adventure) and Blowup, Antonioni invented a unique cinematic language that defied plot-driven narrative and dialogue, inspiring generations of directors the world over. Admirers of Antonioni will be able to pay their respects to the director on Wednesday morning, when his body will lie in state at Rome's city hall. (Xinhuanet, China)
Italian film legend Michelangelo Antonioni dies Aug 1, 2007
By Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer August 1, 2007 Michelangelo Antonioni, the master Italian film director who depicted the emotional alienation of Italy's postwar generation in films such as "L'Avventura" and "La Notte" but achieved his greatest popular success with "Blowup," an enigmatic tale set in swinging London of the 1960s, has died ... A former film critic and documentarian, Antonioni had a decade of feature filmmaking behind him when he achieved international renown in 1960 with... (Los Angeles Times)
Chan can't battle way into China for Rush Hour 3 Aug 1, 2007
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, whose depiction of alienation made him a symbol of art-house cinema with movies such as Blow-Up and L'Avventura, has died, officials and news reports said Tuesday ... Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, whose depiction of alienation made him a symbol of art-house cinema with movies such as Blow-Up and L'Avventura, has died, officials and news reports said Tuesday ... Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, whose depiction of alienation made him a... (CBC.ca)
The desperate and the beautiful Aug 1, 2007
In the years 1960-62, he delivered a trilogy - L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse - that may be the enduring masterpieces of even those crowded years. In L'Avventura, a party of bored, rich people go to an island for the day. (Guardian Unlimited)
Legendary Italian Film Director Passes Away Jul 31, 2007
He found international success in 1960 with his trilogy L'Avventura (The Adventure), La Notte (The Night) and L'Eclisse (The Eclipse). L'Avventura was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. (Sky News)
Obituary: Michelangelo Antonioni, 94 Jul 31, 2007
Italian director best known for his films Blow-Up and L'Avventura ... ROME Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, whose depiction of alienation made him a symbol of art-house cinema with movies such as Blow-Up and L'Avventura, has died, officials and news reports said Tuesday ... His exploration of such intellectual themes as alienation and existential malaise led Halliwell's Film Guide to say that L'Avventura, Antonioni's first critical success, made him a hero of the highbrows. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
D.I.Y. Summer Film Festival Jul 9, 2007
Seemingly boring -- even intentionally so -- "L'Avventura" subliminally builds and achieves a strange and haunting impact. -- Mick LaSalle. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New on DVD: 'Black Snake Moan' is a potboiler Jun 29, 2007
It features a for-the-ages romantic teaming of Italy's Lea Massari (then just off Michelangelo Antonioni's art-house deity L'Avventura) and Hollywood cowboy Rory Calhoun. Tracing the actor's own timeline, Colossus came right after Rory starred in CBS TV's The Texan but several years before he commented, "She didn't even include half of them" when his wife sued him over adultery with 79 different women. (USA Today -- Life)
* Cinema worldcongregates at Cannes May 18, 2007
Antonioni was booed when he presented L'Avventura in 1960, and a gaudy piece of swag can provoke argumentative passion as surely as a jury's vote or an auteur's vision. "Roland Joffe should not be here!" Rissient said, with indignation. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
And Cannes created woman May 14, 2007
Vitti was the muse of Michelangelo Antonioni, and the star of his epoch-making L'Avventura. The film was booed when it played in competition in 1960, baffling viewers with its longueurs and refusal to deliver a straightforward narrative; within a year, however, critics had agreed on L'Avventura's radical brilliance, and Vitti was established as Sixties cinema's queen of existential cool. (Independent)
A little of everything Mar 18, 2007
Inspired by the films of Michelangelo Antonioni ("Blowup, "L'Avventura" ), it presents a tale of relationships gone bad, framed by Scheib's twisted, pop-culture savvy sense of humor. Six hand-held video cameras track the actors from different angles through a set shaped like a house, projecting their images on four panels above. There's also break-dancing, dodge ball, nuclear disaster, and a romantic scene done partially in Italian.For Scheib, who believes in using cinematic tools to make... (Boston Globe -- Living)
'Numbers' adds an intimate touch (Adam Mazmanian) Feb 27, 2007
Their first album, "L'Avventura," was a mix of covers and originals, presented with simple instrumentation and straightforward arrangements. "Back Numbers" follows the same template, but because it arrives on the heels of the breakup of their popular band Luna, it doesn't have that side project feel. (Washington Times)
Everything but the Kitchen Sink Jan 26, 2007
Old Joy director Kelly Reichardt uses Oregon's Cascade Mountains "as a metaphor, almost," for her "mood piece about two ex-hippies who are trying to see if they can re-establish the connection they once had. They find the hot springs they're looking for, and they find that some things can't be found that the old joy is not there. 'Old Joy' is poignant, in the way that 'Brokeback Mountain' is poignant." Similarly, Climates is "about Turkey as much as it is about the relationship between the two... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
An Art-House Dream Jan 7, 2007
So are better-known films, such as Antonioni's "L'Avventura" (1960), in a digital transfer that is mouthwatering. You know that goofy line from "West Side Story" that has made Stephen Sondheim cringe for half a century, the one about "say it soft and it's almost like praying". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Cinema: A Criterion Top 10 Nov 11, 2006
It's not even a list of the greatest films, like L'Avventura and Jules and Jim, that are in Criterion's inventory. This is a list of the best Criterion releases considered as imaginative products and, if you will, public services the discs that have the most beautifully cleaned up prints, the most desirable extras, the most illuminating commentary tracks. (Time.com)
Encore for the man who loved women Oct 31, 2006
In 1960, when L'Avventura ( The Adventure) premiered at Cannes, the reaction of many critics was so hostile that a bunch of his admirers got up a petition to defend him. Two years later, L'Avventura came second in the Sight and Sound critics' poll of the top 10 films of all time ... The first half of L'Avventura is shot on a rocky island just north of Sicily, and the way he shoots it makes it become like a modern landscape on top of an ancient one (just like Italy). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Marie Antoinette Oct 12, 2006
Advise and Consent (1962). Alex Rider: Operation Stormbr. (Village Voice)
The hottest ticket for serious film fans Sep 29, 2006
Topping the list of must-sees in this month-long salute at the Walter Reade Theater are Bergman's "Wild Strawberries," Michel Carne's "Children of Paradise," Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low," Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura" and Agnes Varda's "Cleo from 5 to 7.". Been there, done that. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
WHO BOOED?: Questions surround Coppola's 'Marie' Cannes screening... Jun 5, 2006
Pics ranging from Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura" to Vincent Gallo's "Brown Bunny" have famously been booed. But the outburst at the "Marie" screening did surprise some veteran fest journos, who note that 99% of films don't get booed at all, and that just a few boos by a dozen or so people can have a magnifying effect in close quarters. (The Drudge Report)
Cannes: a user's guide May 15, 2006
They often get it wrong too, sometimes shamefully so: as witness the barracking that notoriously greeted Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura (a history-changing film if ever there was one) in 1960, or indeed Jane Campion's Sweetie in 1989. Sometimes mere indifference can be as bad: one of the most extraordinary films I ever saw in Cannes, Alexei Guerman's barmy, visionary epic of Stalinism, Khroustaliev, My Car. (Independent)
The Passengers return trip Jan 14, 2006
When L'Avventura won the Prix de Jury at Cannes in 1960 (La Dolce Vita won the Palme d'Or), it was booed at the public screenings ... These, from L'Avventura to The Passenger, look like mysteries, which suggests that there is a solution to the puzzle, but there may not be ... Antonioni on DVD IL GRIDO (Kino, 1957) Antonioni did make films before L'Avventura, and Il Grido (The Outcry) may be the best of them. (Now Toronto)
