Word: antonioni
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...disappointed that you didn't mention the passing of the great film director Michelangelo Antonioni, who died the same day Ingmar Bergman did. Having rightly mentioned Bergman, you should also have commemorated Antonioni. Tamar Ahronovitch, Jerusalem...
...itself expert at imitating Hollywood and British genres: the Biblical epic turned into the sword-and-sandal muscleman movies, the sex-charged Hammer and Corman-Poe horror films made into even more erotic thrillers. For ordinary moviegoers of the 60s, the phrase "Italian films" did not conjure up Fellini, Antonioni and the glamour of alienation. It meant vigorous ripoffs of English-language genre films...
...smaller but no less ambitious scale, Antonioni kept experimenting. He reunited with Vitti for The Mystery of Oberwald (1981), which used the new video technology to repaint forests, walls, gowns in an expert riot of surreal colors. He continued even after a 1985 stroke robbed him of speech. His four short segments in Beyond the Clouds had the old camera suavity and started to make explicit the erotic yearnings of his '60s films. He could not have made this film, and his 2003 contribution to the omnibus project Eros, without his wife Enrica, through whom he communicated with his casts...
...some emotions don't need words. In 1992, Antonioni received an award from the Italian government, and the assembled dignitaries lined up to congratulate him. Suddenly there was Fellini. Bursting with love and energy, he hugged his old colleague and gently caressed the back of Antonioni's head. A huge smile lighted his face; his cheeks were dappled with tears...
...vital Fellini was dead in a year; Antonioni lived another...