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...other viewers, Antonioni - who had come to directing after being a film critic, an assistant director, a screenwriter (he scripted Federico Fellini's solo feature directorial debut, The White Sheik) and the maker of documentary shorts - was the first true modernist in commercial cinema. His pristine imagery and elegant compositions taught viewers to watch a movie, not just see it. Calling L'Avventura "easily, the film of the year," critic Pauline Kael hailed it for demonstrating "that the possibilities for serious, cultivated, personal film expression in the film medium were not yet exhausted." (The next year, she castigated La Notte...
...These are the existential blahs that critic Andrew Sarris called "Antoniennui." For audiences unable to get on the director's wavelength or into his measured rhythm, seeing his characters suffer in slow motion was like watching paint dry. Movies were supposed to move, not slouch against a wall, and the pace of Antonioni's movies was a special test for the antsy...
...more of the wide-ranging conversation between the film critic and the director, go to time.com/woodyallen
Talese continued her verbal barrage via e-mail Sunday with Dallas Morning News book critic Michael Merschel, a panelist at the conference, who detailed the exchange on his blog and in a column Monday. Talese was unapologetic for publishing the book, Merschel said, and she described Winfrey to him as "holier-than-thou" and her talk-show audience as reminiscent of a "Roman circus." The upcoming C-SPAN BOOK-TV show is certain to stir the waters. Winfrey, so far, has declined to comment. With reporting by Laura Fitzpatrick/New York
VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, denouncing British demands for extradition of the Russian spy accused of murdering Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London last year...