Word: antonioni
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...Though Cortázar’s story “The Devil’s Drool” famously inspired Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 “Blowup,” it’s another Antonioni film—“L’avventura”—that best mirrors the enigmatic circles in which Oliveira moves. In that movie, the presumable storyline of a woman going missing seems to be forgotten by everyone in the scenes that follow; similarly, La Maga’s absence doesn?...
...this year is a shot of a blond woman, seen from the back in a spaghetti-strapped black dress, peering out at the sea. It could be the Mediterranean, the backdrop to the Grand Palais. But it's actually a remote Italian island; for the photo is from Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura, a sensation when it showed at the 1960 Cannes fest - sensational because it was greeted with both acclaim and perplexed hostility. In Antonioni's modernist adventure, the central mystery of a missing girl was never solved. We hope that all the enigmas of Cannes 2009 will...
...Royale in 1967, not to be confused with the one released two years ago, and Never Say Never Again, a Sean Connery solo project, in 1983.) So this time the keepers of the 007 flame went with one of the short story titles, which sounds more suited for an Antonioni film than the highly torqued action adventure that is Quantum of Solace...
...another seminal essay, the 1962 "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," he focused his laser gaze on the new arthouse high priests, Francois Truffaut and Michelangelo Antonioni, finding them - and, by extension, their American admirers - guilty of a new version of Manny's original sin: "filling every pore of a work with darting Style and creative Vivacity." (Oh, the castrating sarcasm of the upper-case S and V.) He defined the first part of his dialectic as "Masterpiece art, reminiscent of the enameled tobacco humidors and wooden lawn ponies bought at white elephant auctions decades ago..." What he wanted...
...disappointed that you didn't mention the passing of one of the greatest film directors of our time, Michelangelo Antonioni, who died the same day Ingmar Bergman did. Having mentioned Bergman - and very rightly so - you should have also commemorated Antonioni. Quite a large space was dedicated, for example, to Anna Nicole Smith - an ill-considered selection. Tamar Ahronovitch, JERUSALEM...