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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fritz Lang, Antonioni feels that violence is an integral part of contemporary society and cannot be ignored. His photographer, like Hitchcock's, is brought back to reality by means of melodrama: waiting for the owner of a junk shop he wants to buy, the photographer wanders through a nearby park. Ignoring a bizarre fat lady that 99 out of 100 photographers would have snapped without thinking twice, he photographs pigeons instead, then two lovers kissing. The girl sees him and pleads with him to give her the roll of film. Unsuccessful, she follows him to his studio and offers...
This small conscious realization on the photographer's part gives his life more value, and enables Antonioni to have him finally reject the behavior of his friends. The ending establishes this conclusively: in the park, returning from his unsuccessful attempt to find and photograph the corpse, he sees the white-faced youths standing around a tennis court, watching two of their group "play" tennis with an imaginary ball and imaginary rackets. The "ball" is knocked over the fence and the group looks toward the photographer to retrieve it. He hesitates momentarily, then picks up the the imaginary ball and throws...
...purposeless and overly self-conscious. Antonioni's best editing is found in the sequences with dramatic purpose and direction: the blow-up sequence and the discovery of the corpse. Both deal with extended action--a lengthy process of printing and examining photo enlargements, and a long walk through a park--and Antonioni must use editing as a time-compressor, simulating the length of the event through montage, though actually presenting it in a much shorter period of time. This forces him to be economic, to use editing to convey the scene content. He succeeds admirably; the blow-up sequence...
...tone for the day. Only one starting block could be found and the finish line was at a 20-degree angle to the lanes. The 40 ft. line in the shot put was marked by a backwards "45." and the track was nearly as hilly as the Franklin Park cross-country course...
...growing residential sector, Zingonia offers $7,000 apartments and $30,000 two-story villas. The area is separated from the industrial sector by a park, civic center, soccer stadiums, swimming pools and tennis courts. Zingone has already almost recouped some $10 million he invested in a smaller community ("Quartiere Zingone") outside Milan that houses 8,700 people, and has attracted such U.S. firms as Pfizer and International Harvester. He expects to get his $40 million back from Zingonia-with a handsome profit-by 1974, when he turns its municipal buildings and 45 miles of public roads over...