Antonionis perspective on man and nature begins to surface more overtly in il gridoantonioni repeatedly depicts aldo against the flat, austere landscape to manifest his protagonists existential malaise. Michelangelo antonionistateexpanded to show the template expanded, i. A thematic current running through the film is the eclipse of nature in the modern world, analogous to aldos own feelings of. It also includes over 70 photographs from the 1975 film. Michelangelo antonioni wikipedia, a enciclopedia livre. The passenger michelangelo antonioni 1975 after the relatively modest results from zabriskie point 1970, even michelangelo antonionis loyal fans may have wondered if his powers of artistic expression were in permanent decline. An emotionally burnt out journalist jack nicholson attempts to escape his own existence by exchanging identities with a dead arms dealer. Michelangelo antonioni was a master of the geometrical frame.
So, in the end, the passenger is a thriller in structure only. Apr 04, 2010 antonionis perspective on man and nature begins to surface more overtly in il gridoantonioni repeatedly depicts aldo against the flat, austere landscape to manifest his protagonists existential malaise. While delivering real suspense, its also a skyhook from which antonioni can dangle themes of identity, the riddle of existence and of human isolation. The films of michelangelo antonioni cambridge film classics. The daring visual geometry of michelangelo antonioni. By rod schecter while michelangelo antonionis the passenger leaves us with a million questions about the impossibility of switching identities, any red or blue blooded american weaned on mainstream media will tell you how necessary it is to escape into the lives contained within the veritable nexus of the hollywood commercial panorama. Screening of michelangelo antonionis the passenger. Antonioni underscores the fateful event in barcelona, spain, of lockes meeting with the student again through a kind of cinematic deja vu, a scene deliberately composed by the director like the previously viewed one which took place in london. The films of michelangelo antonioni fr michelangelo antonioni. The passenger is one of those movies that is all about the vision of the director, in this case, screen legend michelangelo antonioni. The tiff cinematheque retrospective modernist master. Lavventura identification of a woman story of a love affair. Michelangelo antonioni interview im certainly not rich duration.
It would be hard to overstate michelangelo antonionis influence on postwar cinema, architecture and design, fashion, and literature, even on modern conceptions of the intellectual and the erotic. Shot on location, the protagonist goes on a lifechanging journey through africa, spain, germany and england. Sep 19, 2011 ennui, despair, desert, professione reporter aka the passenger, antonioni duration. Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity time. In bologna he studied economics and commerce while he painted and also wrote. An analysis of michelangelo antonionis the passenger, part one. Sep 27, 2012 this is the centenary year of michelangelo antonioni. The passenger 2006, directed by michelangelo antonioni.
To mark the occasion, senses of cinema reprints an article on the film originally published in 1979. No one captures ennui like michelangelo antonioni, whose characters are. For antonioni, the onscreen action is the means by which the images unfold and the actors and plot are set pieces. Michelangelo antonioni cavaliere di gran croce omri. The films of michelangelo antonioni cambridge film.
Reporter, michelangelo antonioni in an interview w. Locke stands in the right background, and the seated girl is in the left foreground, leaning over a. Jun 01, 2000 antonioni is known for his capacity to express alienation visually. Antonionis films are rife with themes, peculiarities and incongruities which largely go unnoticed due his deft care in handling them and the abundant and rich audio and visual textures in which he immerses us, but they are also responsible for the sense of mystery that defies a traditional expectation of resolutions, infusing. Antonionis films are rife with themes, peculiarities and incongruities which largely go unnoticed due his deft care in handling them and the abundant and rich audio and visual textures in which he immerses us, but they are also responsible for the sense of mystery that defies a traditional. After the success of blowup 1966, antonioni was free to write his own ticket, but the result was the disastrous zabriskie point 1970, which despite some interesting sequences particularly the last reel, depicting a sprawling ranch house in the desert exploding repeatedly. Ennui, despair, desert, professione reporter aka the passenger, antonioni duration. Reporter, arguably one of the italian directors greatest masterpieces. As a child antonioni developed interest in the arts that included music and painting. Indeed, antonionis films are a monument of modernism. Antonionis significance as a director is likely to rest on his early films of the 1960s, although a rounded picture of his achievements requires attention to his documentary work and and his color experimentation in the red desert and the mystery of oberwald 1981 roland barthes attested to antonionis high standing in the world of cinema when he suggested that the filmmakers work. Michelangelo antonioni was born in 1912 into a middleclass family and grew up in bourgeois surroundings of the italian province. The films final scene is considered to be one of the great cinematic achievements in the.
The passenger 1975 original film trailer jack nicholson maria. Chegando a roma em 1940 estudou no centro sperimentale di cinematografia na cinecitta, onde conheceu alguns dos artistas com quem acabou cooperando nos anos futuros. But with his next feature fiction film production, the passenger 1975, the writerdirector turned away from the political and returned to the philosophical existential themes that had driven such earlier. Michelangelo antonioni, the films director, discusses the passenger in an. In 1939 he went to rome and worked for the journal cinema studying directorship at the school of cinema. Equally important, its a movie that speaks as strongly to our time as to the seventies when it was made perhaps more strongly, given the low political and cinematic ambition of so many films in recent years. Leclisse eclipse michelangelo antonioni 1962 red desert il deserto rosso michelangelo antonioni 1964 blowup michelangelo antonioni 1966 the passenger michelangelo antonioni 1975 posted by the film sufi at 6042009 10. The films of michelangelo antonioni provides an overview of the italian directors life and work, and examines six of his most important and intellectually challenging films. The passenger 2006, directed by michelangelo antonioni film. The complete script of the film by mark peploe, peter wollen, and michelangelo antonioni and starring jack nicholson and maria schneider. But the passenger was probably his greatest film, one which combined his unique cinematic style with a rigorous and heartfelt portrayal of identity and isolation in the postmodern world. His characters communicate inadequately with each other, his narratives are almost plotless and the physical world is used to express alienation and psychological agony. In bologna he studied economics and commerce while he painted and also wrote criticism for a local newspaper. Michelangelo antonioni celebrity profile check out the latest michelangelo antonioni photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes.
This lucid essay by us academic theodore price, now retired, was originally published under the. This tradition includes italian neorealism, and later films which derive from neorealism. Like all of antonionis films, the passenger uses space, emptiness and architecture to create a sense of spiritual longing in an existential void. Michelangelo antonioni stateexpanded to show the template expanded, i.
But to get an idea of how antonionis style began to take shape, id suggest. Jul 31, 2007 michelangelo antonioni, the italian director whose chilly depictions of alienation were cornerstones of international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense measures of admiration. Michelangelo antonioni, the italian director whose chilly depictions of alienation were cornerstones of international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense measures of admiration. Aug 01, 2007 michelangelo antonioni was born on sept. Jan 01, 1975 the complete script of the film by mark peploe, peter wollen, and michelangelo antonioni and starring jack nicholson and maria schneider. Antonionis the passenger is almost a masterpiece financial times. Michelangelo antonioni 29 september 1912 30 july 2007 was an italian movie director and screenwriter. Starring none other than jack nicholson, and featuring a plot billed as an international romantic thriller, the passenger defies expectations by turning the genre on its head, making the characters and the story. Michelangelo antonioni stateautocollapse shows the template collapsed to the title bar if there is a navbar, a sidebar, or some other table on the page with the collapsible attribute. Jul 30, 2007 italian filmmaker michelangelo antonioni redefined the concept of narrative cinema, challenging the accepted notions at the heart of storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. See more ideas about michelangelo antonioni, great films and. After the relatively modest results from zabriskie point 1970, even michelangelo antonionis loyal fans may have wondered if his powers of artistic expression were in permanent decline. Pictures of antonioni by giuseppe palmas, rome, december 22 1954.
Nov 30, 2014 the great italian director michelangelo antonionis previous movie, zabriskie point, was a commercial and critical failure. Cinema2000 obituary in portuguese michelangelo antonionia flawed legacy, part and part world socialist web site. The best of antonionis three englishlanguage pictures which also include blowup and zabriskie point, the passenger has been off our screens for aroun. Jun 01, 2006 the passenger couldnt have been an easy film to get financed or to make, especially after the tepid critical reception for zabriskie point, but there were two factors working in antonionis. Michelangelo antonionistatecollapsed to show the template collapsed, i.
Antonioni 19122007, whose fascination with mediated reality only deepened over time, was a restless experimenter with composition, camera movement. It often accurately depicts some aspect of the real world. The penultimate shot of michelangelo antonionis the passenger 1975, a seamless. His major films included le amiche 1955, lavventura 1960, leclisse 1962, and blowup 1966. Michelangelo antonioni s films are part of a major tradition of italian cinema. Nov 30, 2014 the great italian director michelangelo antonioni s previous movie, zabriskie point, was a commercial and critical failure. The star of antonionis the passenger talks about working with jack nicholson, derek jarman and john cassavetes, and the cautionary tale of her friend, last tango actor maria schneider. Italian filmmaker michelangelo antonioni redefined the concept of narrative cinema, challenging the accepted notions at the heart of storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. Michelangelo antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinemas greatest modernist filmmakers. This episode, he looks at michelangelo antonionis the passenger 1975, a film which featured jack nicholson in what nicholson once said. Michelangelo antonionis 1975 film the passenger is a languid thriller in which not much seems to. The passenger is a late antonioni film, made only about a decade after his most influential works had been completed.
The bookends of this article are analyses of two kinds of africasituated visual texts. Michelangelo antonioni and the reality of the modern. Michelangelo antonioni simple english wikipedia, the. Michelangelo antonioni biography, movie highlights and. Feb 04, 2017 antonioni or, the surface of the world. Cinema2000 obituary in portuguese michelangelo antonioni a flawed legacy, part and part world socialist web site. Antonioni is known for his capacity to express alienation visually.
Studied at university of bologna, 1935, and at centro sperimentale di cinematografica, rome, 194041. Michelangelo antonioni antonioni deploys a unique aesthetic and camera style to express the emotional barrenness of modern man in all his mature films. The passenger is michelangelo antonionis most brilliant film and a high point in jack nicholsons amazing career. It begins with a focus on michelangelo antonionis film the passenger 1975. He died at the same day as ingmar bergman, another famous director. But in this book, murray pomerance demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, antonionis greatest works. Written by mark peploe, peter wollen and antonioni, the film is about an. Michelangelo antonioni was born on september 29, 1912, in ferrara, emiliaromagna, italy, to ismaele antonioni and elisabetta nee roncagli. Actor maria schneiders death yesterday brought to mind a film she starred in with jack nicholson in 1975. An analysis of michelangelo antonionis the passenger. A special screening of michelangelo antonionis the passenger at the curzon renoir provides a rare opportunity to see the film in the linked setting of the the brunswick centre the passenger tells the story of an angloamerican journalist, david locke jack nicholson who.
Michelangelo antonioni director collection dvd mr bongo. Everything except a few bad habits i couldnt get rid of. Michelangelo antonioni runs from june 6 to july 21 few directors so radically transformed our perception of the possibilities of film as michelangelo antonioni. The passenger michelangelo antonioni 1975 posted by the film sufi at 6042009 10. In michelangelo antonionis the passenger, jack nicholson. Michelangelo antonioni italy, france, 1964 antonionis first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialists wife monica vitti suffers a nervous breakdown. The passenger couldnt have been an easy film to get financed or to make, especially after the tepid critical reception for zabriskie point, but there were two factors working in antonionis. Written by mark peploe, peter wollen and antonioni, the film is about an angloamerican journalist, david locke jack nicholson who assumes the identity of a dead businessman while working on a documentary in chad, unaware that he is impersonating an arms dealer with connections. Michelangelo antonioni, italian film director, cinematographer, and producer noted for his avoidance of realistic narrative in favor of character study and a vaguely metaphorical series of incidents. He was born on 29 september 1912 and died in 2007 at the age of 94, having worked until almost the very end. The films of michelangelo antonioni certainly his most critically acclaimed. The comparison has to be with painting, but also with a novelists ability to describe both a scene. In a dvd commentary, decades later, nicholson said antonioni built the entire hotel so as to get this shot.
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