Word: antonioni
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...DIED. DAVID HEMMINGS, 62, British actor best remembered for playing a swinging photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 classic Blowup; while filming a movie in Romania. In the 1980s, Hemmings turned to directing TV shows before he returned to movie acting. One of his recent film roles was in the Oscar-winning Gladiator...
...Valley's natural beauty that draws most visitors and brings them back for more. Well-marked hiking trails offer endless opportunities to experience at close range the raw and diverse geography created by erosion, volcanism and shifting tectonic plates. If you start at Zabriskie Point (a setting for Michelangelo Antonioni's film and the best place in the valley to watch the sun rise), you can trek down 2.8 miles past pale blue-green desert holly shrubs, sun-drenched yellow badlands, the fluted walls of Red Cathedral and the pinnacle of stately Manley Beacon and end up at the base...
...WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE IN THE GROUP OF HITCHCOCK, CHAPLIN, HOWARD HAWKS, RENOIR, KING VIDOR, ANTONIONI AND ANDRZEJ WAJDA--GREAT DIRECTORS WHO NEVER WON A COMPETITIVE OSCAR BUT LATE IN LIFE GOT AN HONORARY AWARD? Oh, that'd be wonderful. Yeah, I'm fine with that...
Harvey located the Eisenstein classic Ivan the Terrible, Part II—then thought to have been destroyed by Stalin—and premiered it at the Brattle. He was also responsible for introducing contemporary European directors such as François Truffaut, Michaelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman to America. When he won an Oscar for The Virgin Spring in 1961, Bergman even had Harvey accept the award...
...vertiginous hours, women glamorize this compilation film, as they do Italian (and every other) cinema. "Voyage" begins with Magnani's death in "Open City" and ends with Cardinale's seraphic smile in "8-1/2." Bergman is at the center of the Rossellini segment, as Vitti is of the Antonioni. The emotional peak of the whole opus is an 18-min. pr?cis of "Senso," whose ravishments are incarnated by Valli's gift for reckless passion glowing through a steely sheath. The most poignant moment in "Voyage" is the last scene from "La Dolce Vita": a girl (14-year-old Valeria...