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Michelangelo Antonioni was the high priest of low-energy cinema, of beautiful people who had the time and money to back out of commitment--who could afford to be miserable. This 1962 antidrama is a prime example of what critic Andrew Sarris labeled "Antoniennui." Monica Vitti, ravishingly blank, and gorgeous Alain Delon try, but not too hard, to lock destinies, framed in beautiful shots that have their own dry passion. L'Eclisse is a monster movie in which the evil creature is stirring, almost sleeping, within us. --By Richard Corliss
...It’s good for the show—but sad to watch—when you write a paragraph in search of a joke and George replaces it with a sentence which is funnier and clearer than what you had,” Vitti says...
...great comedy writers will fall back on conventional things in a pinch,” says Vitti. “Once you’ve written sitcoms for a number of years, you can watch most TV shows and you could almost number the jokes: that’s 18a; that?...
...George comes up with things which even as a writer you’ve never heard before,” Vitti says. “The ability to surprise the writers is something George does more than anybody else...
These experiences were rewarding for Meyer in his search for others with a similar frame of mind. It was during his time at “Saturday Night Live,” in 1986, that Vitti says he first worked closely with Meyer...