Word: antonioni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great modern directors of the cinema, Antonioni and Resnais, collaborate on their first film, declaring that it will "try to capture the langorous, subtle rhythyms of the vita vrai." While viewing it a student declares that "if someone isn't killed within thirty minutes I'm getting out of here." No one is, he does...
...best, Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina's foremost film maker, studies his homeland with an unblinking poet's eye that invites comparison to Antonioni and Bergman. He deftly juggles modish effects, melding sun and skin into the languid what-next boredom of a summer afternoon or exposing the backbone of a scene with the blinding suddenness of a flashbulb popping in the dark...
...Missing from the Lincoln Center bill, however, were Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, winner of the 1964 Cannes Festival's Grand Prix, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert, recent top choice of the judges at Venice...
Disorder boasts an impressive roster of international film stars sloshing through still another odyssey of contemporary moral chaos. In this artiest of art films, the malaise reaches epidemic proportions. To make his points, fledgling Italian Director Franco Brusati borrows freely but not well from Antonioni, Fellini, Visconti and perhaps Bunuel, hopefully compiling a whole movie from the kind of footage the masters might have left...
...older nemesis. "You're just like him," the woman tells the youth, "only half his age, weaker, and more stupid." And still she makes love to the boy. It is here-in the film's negativistic conclusion--that Polanski shows' his true affinities. His style is that of Antonioni, Fellini, or Truffaut; his art is emphatically free of his ethnic (or political) surroundings...