Antonioni who was an explorer like few others in the territories of technology, immediately tries his hand at the new electronic filming technique in this feature film produced for the small screen by Rai2. In reality, Antonioni is hard to recognize because the bombast…
Michele Mancini interviews Antonioni Mancini: You create a space within which unexpected reactions can occur. Antonioni: Yes, they are always different. I rely a lot on chance. Mancini: You challenge the actors to bring them to a certain «simplicity»……
First part Michelangelo Buffa If it is true that the difficulty in understanding the image as a sign, i.e. as a denotative and connotative translation from a "real" pre-filmic material to an "apparent" filmic material, depends essentially on a common principle in the incapable bourgeois ideology …
Do you remember Second Life, the site that allowed you to create a virtual alter ego, a sort of second life populated differently by people and objects. There was even a virtual mall to buy them. There was its own currency, its own economy. …
Just as Zabriskie Point is the most successful document on the spirit of the counterculture and American society of the time, so Cheng Kuo, China is one of the most sincere and candid acts of love towards the Chinese, their land and their civilization. In 1972…
Zabriskie Point is the best testimony to the spirit, ideas, cultural climate and youth of the counterculture. It is amazing how Antonioni's eye has captured the soul of this enormous phenomenon. Out of the counterculture came the revolution of…
An interview by Alberto Moravia with the great Michelangelo Antonioni on the masterpiece film Blow up: to be re-read
"The Red Desert" is the most beautiful and most inspired film by the great Michelangelo Anotonioni, if only for the Maestro's use of color - But the critics at the time did not understand him: here's what they said about the film
La notte Antonioni consolidates and develops the filmic language begun with L'avventura, the previous film. This time we are in an urban environment, in the Milan of the economic boom. There is bourgeois Milan, popular Milan, there is Brianza. Memorable and melancholic are the…
With "The Eclipse" (which is not seen in the film) Michelangelo Antonioni consolidates and develops the new cinematographic language introduced with "The Adventure". In some sequences, like the final one, he takes it to his peak. The images in their thingness, they scream. Terrific scene and…
How Michelangelo Antonioni's film was received by the critics of those times: this is what two greats like Italo Calvino and Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote
A journey through the gallery of yesterday's great films starting with Michelangelo Antonioni: this is how the critics of the time welcomed the Master's 1957 "The Scream" with Alida Valli as the protagonist
