Word: antonioni
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Proust Is Possible. The New Cinema has been displayed on U.S. screens recently with astonishing variety and virtuosity. Michelangelo Antonioni parodied the modish artsiness of fashion photography to help create the swinging London mood of Blow-Up. Italy's Gillo Pontecorvo faithfully reproduced the grainy style of newsreel footage to restage The Battle of Algiers-a pictorially harrowing exposition of war as an extension of politics. Czech Director Jiff Menzel leaped from tears to laughter in quick sequence to create the moody turmoil of Closely Watched Trains. The "undoable" film can now be done, as shown by the creditable...
...been signed to a multipicture contract at United Artists, as has Polanski at Paramount. The Iron Curtain countries are a continuing source of new talent, and Hollywood studios have dangled fat contracts before Czechoslovakia's Jan Radar, who made Shop on Main Street. Even the customarily aloof Antonioni has become part of the new Hollywood; his next film, Zabriskie Point, will be financed by MGM and shot in the Southwest. It will be, he says, about violence...
...Stinger, and that the loose construction of the mystery throws proper emphasis onto that relationship. As long as this argument wasn't devised after the picture's completion, one can assume that Jewison and screen writer Skirling Silliphant were trying to use the elements of a mystery much as Antonioni did in Blow-Up: as a meeting ground for two individuals. But where Blow-Up deliberately stopped short of concluding its mystery, Heat of the Night begins with the news of the murder, and ends with the capture of the murderer. So Jewison's defense is hard to buy; there...
...laced country. His regime has put Argentina's few tame girly magazines out of business, ordered nightclubs to keep their lights bright at all times and outlawed kissing in public parks. It has banned such widely acclaimed films as the Czech-made Loves of a Blonde and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, based on a short story by Argentina's Julio Cortazar; it recently ordered a popular local television show discontinued because it showed too much of a bosomy blonde film star named Libertad Leblanc. One evening this month police stormed into the Buenos Aires Institute...
...Harvey and Haliday turn the moviehouse-coffee house which they started in 1953 into the boutique empire which they possess in 1967? Largely by filling their movie house with movies which they themselves imported. Their company, Janus Films, was the first to import Fellini, Antonioni, and Bergman. Last year, they sold Janus Films (for quite a handsome profit) partly because they were being squeezed out by the big companies, and partly because buying films was "an ulcer business." "You had to make your decision two minutes after you saw the film, and you never knew whether it would...