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ANTONIONI'S CHINA (CHUNG KUO - CINA)
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Following Zabriskie Point, Antonioni was invited by the Chinese government to film a documentary on the country for Italian television. The three-plus-hour color film that resulted, however, was rejected by Chinese officials and the press for supposedly portraying the Cultural Revolution in a negative light. The charge could not be more off base, and it made Chung kuo/Cina nearly impossible to see for years. "...a tender (but very much off-the-record) picture of a society in transformation and shyly opening itself up to a foreigner's curious gaze" (Oxford History of World Cinema). "...among Antonioni's finest documentary achievements..." (A History of Narrative Film). In Italian and Mandarin with French subtitles.
Michelangelo Antonioni---Italy---1972---208 mins.
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BLOW-UP
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The classic film questioning the relationship between image and reality; David Hemmings plays a fashion photographer who photographs a woman (Vanessa Redgrave) in a park and later comes to believe that he has actually photographed a murder. Through the photograph, Hemmings is lured out of his life to search for the truth.
Michelangelo Antonioni---Great Britain---1966---111 mins.
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I VINTI (THE VANQUISHED)
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An early, ambitious triptych film from the director of Blow-Up that follows affluent, disaffected and reckless youth in three different cities.
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IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN (CRITERION)
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This underrated, visually beautiful film from Antonioni stands as one of the director's most dreamlike and erotic features. A film director searches for the perfect woman to be the focus of his new movie and the quest turns into a deeply personal exploration of the soul. "Bewitching and exhilarating" (Georgia Brown, The Village Voice).
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IL GRIDO
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Alida Valli and Steve Cochran are featured in the story of a jilted husband who wanders with his daughter from village to village and woman to woman until, after a last gaze at his wife, he falls to his death. Set in the desolate landscapes of Antonioni's own childhood in the Po Valley, the plot "develops no longer explicitly through major events but implicitly in silent interstices between minor events" (Seymour Chatman). A breakthrough work from Antonioni's neo-realist period. Italian with English subtitles. Michelangelo Antonioni---Italy---1957---116 mins.
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L'AVVENTURA
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A film about the fragility of human relationships which established Antonioni as one of the giants of world cinema. A young woman disappears mysteriously on a yachting trip. Her lover and best friend search for her, but they become involved in an affair along the way. "Our drama is non-communication," said Antonioni, "and it is this feeling that dominates the characters in my film." With Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti. Winner of the Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In Italian with English subtitles. Michelangelo Antonioni---Italy---1960---143 mins.
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L'ECLISSE/ THE ECLIPSE
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The third of Antonioni's great trilogy, with Monica Vitti as the alienated woman among the upper bourgeoisie. A brilliant film, with its stupefying climax of silence, comprised of 58 shots lasting 7 minutes. "Breathtaking visual beauty" (Jonas Mekas, Village Voice). In Italian with English Michelangelo Antonioni---Italy---1966---123 mins.
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LA NOTTE
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The second installment of master Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy of films about the failure of romance and relationships in a world of isolation (following L'Avventura and preceding The Eclipse). Jeanne Moreau plays a bored, dissatisfied woman who abandons her simple-minded husband (Marcello Mastroianni), who in turn attempts to seduce a beautiful, vacant woman (Monica Vitti). Moody, introverted and beautiful, brilliantly photographed by Gianni Di Venanzo. In Italian with English subtitles. Michelangelo Antonioni---Italy---1961---122 mins.
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LA SIGNORA SENZA CAMELIE
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Michelangelo Antonioni's third feature looks at a film producer (Gino Cervi) and his Svengali-like interest in a young shopgirl (Lucia Bose). Casting her in a number of sexy vehicles, he makes the girl a star, and eventually his wife. When she insists on starring in serious, artistic fare, their relationship is put to the test. In Italian with NO English subtitles. Michelangelo Antonioni---Italy---1953---105 mins.
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RED DESERT (CRITERION)
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Monica Vitti, alienated from her husband and surroundings, wanders northern Italy on the verge of a meltdown in Antonioni's Red Desert.
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STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR
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Michelangelo Antonioni's auspicious narrative debut heralded an important shift in the direction of post-war Italian cinema. Hushed, austere, and emotionally intense, this well-observed drama centers on the relationship between Guido (Massimo Girotti) and his former flame Paola (Lucia Bose), whose passions are re-ignited after a lengthy separation. Antonioni's careful treatment of shifting power relationships and the vagaries of infidelity are themes that the auteur would explore for the rest of his career. In Italian Michelangelo Antonioni---Italy---1950---98 mins.
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ZABRISKIE POINT
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Antonioni's portrait of revolutionary America in the 1960s is a disquieting, visually stunning film about two American countercultural youths.
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