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Beyond the Clouds
Film Review May 19, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni has always been haunted by unseen realities. Essential though they are, images are little more than hazy signposts that obscure the fundamental realities that lie...  
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring: Kim Rossi-Stuart, Ines Sastre, Chiara Caselli, Peter Weller, Jean Reno, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Irene Jacob, Fanny Ardant and John Malkovich..."
Letters @ 3AM
Columns August 17, 2007
by Michael Ventura
Description: Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini: The great achievement of these film directors was to create living souls to look at, that we might know ourselves
"..."The death of an artist is quite unassailable," wrote Lawrence Durrell, adding, "One can only smile and bow." And after one has smiled and bowed? When two master directors, who once shook my life to the core -- Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni -- died on the same day, July 30, it felt as though something needed doing, some observance needed to be observed. And their deaths brought up another, Federico Fellini's in 1993..."
Red Desert
Film Review January 17, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Antonioni's first film in color shows him making full use of this new element. Set in industrial northern Italy, Red Desert stars beautiful Monica Vitti as a dysfunctional woman suffering...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Rita Renoir and Carlo Chionetti..."
The Passenger
Film Review
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Re-released here in 2005 in its European cut, which is a few minutes longer than the original American release, The Passenger remains a great work of cinema. The third in...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry and Steven Berkoff..."
Blow-Up
Film Review
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: One of the films that was in the forefront of the Sixties' new approach to filmmaking, Antonioni's Blow-Up remains a classic. Not only does the film capture a sense of...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles and David Hemmings..."
Il Grido
Film Review
Description: Antonioni's alienation theme strikes again in this recently re-released film, whose title translates as The Cry. American actor Steve Cochran plays a factory mechanic who loses his moorings when love...
"...Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair and Gabriella Pallotta..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review June 12, 2009
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: It's all about the snitches in two new Criterion releases
"...Even then, the East Londoner basically languished in B-grade paydays before Stephen Soderbergh's The Limey reintroduced Stamp to the silver screen's hall of icons. Together, he and Frears execute the perfect origin story to The Limey, one whose road trip to Madrid unfolds like a gonzo version of Michelangelo Antonioni..."
Letters at 3am
Columns August 1, 2008
by Michael Ventura
Description: The "Situation" is upon us: China and Southern Asia can support their own growth and have no more use for us
"...What could I have been thinking? On any more-or-less sane day I know power and riches are not necessary for greatness. The blacks and Creoles of New Orleans were neither powerful nor rich when they invented jazz, nor were the Wright Brothers when they gave us flight, nor was Italy when it produced the cinema of Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Luchino Visconti..."
AFF to Award Sam Shepard
Screens Blog July 23, 2008
Description: AFF to award Sam Shepard
"...The Austin Film Festival just announced this year's Distinguished Screenwriter Award will go to Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning giant of American theater and Oscar-nominated actor (for 1983's The Right Stuff).
(Yes, yes, that's all very impressive – but have you seen 1987's Baby Boom? Oh my, how my 9-year-old self swooned for the kindly country vet...)
A good chunk of Shepard's screenwriting work consists of adaptations of his own plays, but he also penned such originals as Paris, Texas and Don't Come Knocking (both for director Wim Wenders), Dylan art film Renaldo and Clara, and Zabriskie Point for Michelangelo Antonioni..."
DVD Match
Screens Review August 3, 2007
by Spencer Parsons
Description: Antonioni vs. Bergman from beyond the grave
"...Is it the crazy pills making me detect homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriske Point in that grotesquely attenuated ship-destruction sequence at the climax of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End? Gore Verbinski, if you're out there, please answer, because I've got a night of Pink Floyd karaoke and a case of High Life riding on the answer...."
DVDs
Screens Story May 27, 2005
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Even the 'Sickness of Eros' has unexpected side effects
"...Criterion, $39.95 Even "The Sickness of Eros" has unexpected side effects. Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy documenting Italy's nouveau bourgeoisie, beginning with 1960's intoxicating L'Avventura and continuing the following year with the equally enigmatic La Notte, comes to a blinding head with L'Eclisse (1962)..."
Lives Less Ordinary
Screens Story January 16, 2004
by Marrit Ingman
Description: The Austin Film Society's neorealism and Beyond:
Italian Cinema, 1948-1970
"...They search for love, for work, for stability, for a better life, for contentment, for answers. The results are sometimes tragic, as in the conclusion to Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido..."
Letters at 3AM
Columns January 10, 2003
by Michael Ventura
Description: Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.
"...release), Robert Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, and lesser but memorable works by Peter Ustinov (Billy Budd), William Wyler (The Children's Hour), Frank Perry (David and Lisa), David Miller (Lonely Are the Brave), Mervyn Leroy (Gypsy), John Cassavetes (Too Late Blues), Arthur Penn (The Miracle Worker), Don Siegel (Hell Is for Heroes), Otto Preminger (Advise & Consent), Vincente Minnelli (Two Weeks in Another Town), and Sam Fuller (Merrill's Marauders). Foreign films were represented by Tony Richardson's A Taste of Honey and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Michelangelo Antonioni's Eclipse, and Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light...."
Phases and Stages
Music Review September 21, 2001
by Raoul Hernandez
"...They had, but Clapton's successor, Jeff Beck, more or less picked up where God left off and rode the Yardbirds train 20 months before leaving to form his own psychedelic warship, the Jeff Beck Group, which with a young singer by the name of Rod Stewart, became the model for none other than Led Zeppelin. Considering the Yardbirds' first choice to replace Clapton, Jimmy Page, joined briefly with Beck in a dual lead attack (captured in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow-Up) before taking over a quartet version of the group that eventually became the New Yardbirds then Led Zeppelin, the evolutionary cycle that eventually gave us hair bands is easy to trace..."
Record Reviews
Music Review August 3, 2001
by Raoul Hernandez
"...Where Moreno strips down, Caetano builds up, the title track's strings giving the song about the almost sensuous nature of slavery -- the album's thematic meditation -- a rapturous air. The coyote grin of "Rock 'n' Raul," red desert violins of "Michelangelo Antonioni" and crystal memories of "Meu Rio," pensive closer "Tempestades Solares," which like "13 de Maio" features Moreno Veloso -- all shine with the beauty of Noites do Norte..."
Slacker, the Map
Screens Story January 26, 2001
by Marc Savlov
Description: It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theate. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this "Slacker map," we look at what's disappeared and what's endured.
"...Some of the most important film screenings and series in Austin's history took place in this smallish space above Quackenbush's, a natural choice for coffee-starved cineastes like Linklater, D. Montgomery, and Lee Daniel, who used the venue to unspool the works of Stan Brakhage, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Jean-Luc Godard, as well as a host of other artistic endeavors specifically tailored to the funky art-happening groove of the AMA...."
The Schedule
Screens Story January 19, 2001
"...Jan 23: Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni)..."
Suggested Viewing
Screens Story January 19, 2001
by Nick Barbaro
"...L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)..."
Che Bella
Screens Story January 19, 2001
by Nick Barbaro
Description: The Austin Film Society's series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s," but the story really begins -- as does all of modern cinema -- in the streets of Rome, in May of 1944. Nick Barbaro looks at Italian neorealism and the movies it inspired.
"...Red Desert D: Michelangelo Antonioni (1964); with Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Rita Renoir...."
A History of Collaboration
Screens Story January 19, 2001
by Nick Barbaro
"...Michelangelo Antonioni, too, got his start with Rossellini, helping to write the wartime drama A Pilot Returns after attending the Centro Sperimentale in 1940. He then directed several short documentaries before collaborating on the script of Fellini's first solo directorial effort, The White Sheik, in 1951...."
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