Michelangelo Antonioni

The Idiot's Guide To Famous (Classic) Filmmakers (85 person items)

" The Scope and Theme of His Work Isolation and alienation in post-modern wastelands encapsulated by sweeping cinematography, with visual panoramas of either earthy and natural locations, or cold industrial cities and towns. The characters are often frigid, aloof and distant. Antonioni really tries to push his audience's buttons by challenging them with impassive dialogues that punctuate long silent shots of the scenery around the characters. He also often cast the bodacious, yet stoic, Moni"

Great Couples (10 person items)

"and Monica Vitti "

celebs with ocd (28 person items)

"He had some odd habits, such as sleeping in his clothes and was reported to have never removed his boots…these things have led experts to believe he suffered from OCD."

Favorite Directors' Quotes (27 person items)

""You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.""

Directors to Watch (154 person items)

"Movies Watch-list: L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Blow-Up"

The Director and The Muse (36 person items)

"Monica Vitti (4 Movies) - L'Avventura - La Notte - L'Eclisse - Red Desert"

Directors on Directors (33 person items)

"Fellini I believe Federico was more concerned with the outer life of the people in his films. I am concerned with their inner lives—why they do what they do. (source)"

Andrei Tarkovsky's Favorite Directors (12 person items)

"Antonioni reportedly gave Tarkovsky a camera, and you can see his pictures here. Antonioni has made a strong impression on me with his films, especially with adventures... I realised then, watching this film, that "action", the meaning of action in cinema is rather conditional. There is practically no action going on in Antonioni’s films. And that is the meaning of “action” in Antonioni films. More precisely, in those Antonioni films that I like the most."

Movie Directors That I Appreciate the Most (116 person items)

"01. Blowup (1966) 02. L'avventura (The Adventure, 1960) 03. Zabriskie Point (1970) 04. The Passenger (1975) 05. Eclipse (1962) 06. La Notte (The Night, 1961) 07. Red Desert (1964) 08. Beyond the Clouds (1995)"

Favorite Listal lists (people) (15 person items)

"Filmmakers Insulting Filmmakers “Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. He bores me; he’s so solemn and humorless.” Francois Truffaut on Michelangelo Antonioni “Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.” Ingmar Bergman on Michelangelo Antonioni By JOWL "

Ingmar Bergman: opinions (25 person items)

"Antonioni has never properly learnt his craft. He's an aesthete. If, for example, he needs a certain kind of road for The Red Desert, then he gets the houses repainted on the damned street. That is the attitude of an aesthete. He took great care over a single shot, but didn't understand that a film is a rhythmic stream of images, a living, moving process; for him, on the contrary, it was such a shot, then another shot, then yet another. So, sure, there are some brilliant bits in his films.... I "

Listal's 100 best Directors (The Results) (100 person items)

"Total points:20 ama(8) DeathWish(3) noctem(6) knight_(3)"

Directors on the set (23 person items)

"The Passenger Zabriskie Point "

Directors:The Filmography of... (207 person items)

"Michelangelo Antonioni:The Filmography by propelas"