Word: antonioni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Up in Vermont, three madcap characters are put through their paces by Director Adolfas Mekas, an East Village cinemaniac who pokes fiendish fun at every moviemaker from D. W. Griffith to Antonioni...
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Up in Vermont, three madcap characters are put through their paces by Director Adolfas Mekas, an East Village cinemaniac who pokes fiendish fun at every moviemaker from D. W. Griffith to Antonioni...
...suddenly dissolves. At one point, while the heroes grapple in a foot of snow, the sound track plays ethnic music from equatorial Africa. And all through the film, the cinemate moviegoer will be able to detect sly little mementos of D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Akira Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni-and Ma and Pa Kettle...
...heart of the new movement is a hardy little band of inspired pioneers: Japan's Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon); Sweden's Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries); France's Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour) and Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows); Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura) and Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers); England's Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger); Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Kanal) and Roman Polanski (Two Men and a Wardrobe); Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (Summerskin); India's Satyajit Ray (Father Panchali...
...Antonioni uses all his verbal and visual devices to show how his characters feel. Some of these become tiresome, like shots of people taken from behind lattices and fences. Others are more obscure and lead one into guessing games. But in the last scene, which for seven minutes pictures former meeting places of the pair, shows the emptiness of solitude. The sun is setting, but the director avoids heavy contrasts; the scene is a dull gray. If Eclipse--like its last scene--is lifeless, it is because it illustrates the difficulty not only of communicating, but of thinking and feeling...