L’Avventura: Criterion Collection
December 18, 2014
When Michelangelo Antonioni’s sixth film, L’Avventura premiered at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, it was met with catcalls, but it was a critical darling that went on to captivate audiences all over the world thereby establishing its director’s...
L’Eclisse: Criterion Collection
June 26, 2014
In an essay included in the accompanying booklet, Jonathan Rosenbaum points out that Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (1962) was the final film in a “loose trilogy about Eros, art, business and emotional alienation in the contemporary world.”...
La notte: Criterion Collection
November 4, 2013
Michelangelo Antonioni’s La notte (1961) examines the turbulent marriage between a writer and his wife over the span of just under a day. The film begins with Giovanni (Mastroianni) and Lidia (Moreau) visiting a friend sick with cancer in the hospital....
Red Desert: Criterion Collection
June 10, 2010
The term auteur was invented to describe a filmmaker like Michelangelo Antonioni who pretty much defined existential angst with the films he made in the 1960s, most notably the ones starring his then cinematic muse, Monica Vitti. With Red Desert (1964),...
The Phantom of Liberty
November 3, 2005
Luis Bunuel claimed in an interview that his film, The Phantom of Liberty (1974), “only imitates the mechanisms of chance. It was written in a conscious state; it is neither dream nor a delirious flow of images.” His film defies a traditional narrative...
L’Eclisse
October 28, 2005
In an essay included in the accompanying booklet, Jonathan Rosenbaum points out that Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (1962) was the final film in a “loose trilogy about Eros, art, business and emotional alienation in the contemporary world.”...
