Beyond the Clouds

"...Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring: Kim Rossi-Stuart, Ines Sastre, Chiara Caselli, Peter..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Landscape in the Mist

"...brings to mind the films of Robert Bresson and Michelangelo Antonioni -- its barren tableaux seem from another world...."

Aug. 9, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Letters @ 3AM

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

"...my life to the core -- Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni -- died on the same day, July 30,..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Red Desert

Antonioni's first film in color uses the element to externalize interior feelings. The film is set in industrial northern Italy, and stars beautiful Monica Vitti as a dysfunctional woman suffering from anomie. But is it the woman or her environment that's really out of whack?

"...Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Rita Renoir and..."

Jan. 17, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVD Match

Antonioni vs. Bergman from beyond the grave

"...it the crazy pills making me detect homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriske Point in that grotesquely attenuated ship-destruction sequence..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Lives Less Ordinary

The Austin Film Society's neorealism and Beyond: Italian Cinema, 1948-1970

"...results are sometimes tragic, as in the conclusion to Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido. Other times they suggest a cockeyed..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

The Many Faces of Janus

AFS Essential Cinema series presents a wild lineup

"...objets d'art – and, really, even the most virulent Antonioni detractor can't quibble with his composition. Or, less charitably,..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Reich's Right-Hand Man

AFS Documentary Tour presents Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss

"...like France and Italy, as well. In fact, director Michelangelo Antonioni, then a young film critic, writing about the..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Other Side of the Wind

Should Orson Welles' last film have stayed lost?

"...and a leading man, Johnny Dale (Random) that makes Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point look like The Godfather in terms..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

By the Sea

Angelina and Brad topline this modern-day arthouse relic by Jolie Pitt

"...It’s easy to imagine Michelangelo Antonioni behind the viewfinder, conducting this fastidious state of..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Suggested Viewing

"...L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Dames Du Bois De Boulogne, Les

"...Cocteau. Praised by such filmmakers as Jean-Luc Godard and Michelangelo Antonioni, the film is rarely screened...."

Sept. 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Good Eye: Killer Outfits: The Laura Mars Years

Blow-Up vs. The Eyes of Laura Mars: The female gaze of male gaze is way more compelling

"...I first rented the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow-Up at 23, a freshly dumped UT..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

DVDs

Even the 'Sickness of Eros' has unexpected side effects

"...Even "The Sickness of Eros" has unexpected side effects. Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy documenting Italy's nouveau bourgeoisie, beginning with 1960's..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Che Bella

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...."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Tried and True: Auteurs Make a Return to Form

"...D: Michelangelo Antonioni; with Fanny Ardant, Chiara Casselli Irene Jacob, John..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

British Playwrights Series

"...D: Michelangelo Antonioni; with David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sylvia Miles...."

Oct. 4, 1996 Screens Feature

New AFS Series More Than Simply Restores Wong Kar-wai's Work

The (almost) complete films of the Hong Kong filmmaker

"...triptych Eros that he created with Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni. With a majority of the restorations, changes like..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Chronicle Recommends: Films About Fashion

Get glamorous with our favorite catwalk flicks

"...Givenchy, lensed by Beaton and Avedon. By the time Michelangelo Antonioni’s now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t existential mystery Blow-Up appeared onscreen, however,..."

June 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

DVD Watch: 'Vanishing Waves'

Tender, shocking, erotic: Maybe not what you expect from Lithuania

"...an undeniable debt to Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky and Michelangelo Antonioni...."

July 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

When the album becomes Immersion

"...of "Us and Them," recorded for but cut from Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point, and organ-drone sermon "The Mortality..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Anatomy of a Scene

New York and No Wave in Blank City

"...fallen under the influence of Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and John Cassavetes, as well as the more..."

July 1, 2011 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

See Reverse Side for Title: Part I

If English first-wavers had trouble getting ahold of American roots music, Americans themselves weren't much better off, piecemealing together the foundations of today's national scene

"...while until commune member Mark Frechette, who starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, was involved in a bank robbery...."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'; 'The Hit'

It's all about the snitches in two new Criterion releases

"...trip to Madrid unfolds like a gonzo version of Michelangelo Antonioni. John Hurt as the hit man foreclosing on..."

June 12, 2009 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3am

The "Situation" is upon us: China and Southern Asia can support their own growth and have no more use for us

"...it produced the cinema of Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Luchino Visconti. For that matter, America wasn't..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

AFF to Award Sam Shepard

AFF to award Sam Shepard

"...art film Renaldo and Clara, and Zabriskie Point for Michelangelo Antonioni. The 2008 Austin Film Festival runs Oct. 16-23...."

July 23, 2008 Screens Post

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Honey and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Michelangelo Antonioni's Eclipse, and Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Yardbirds

Record Review

"...with Beck in a dual lead attack (captured in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow-Up) before taking over a quartet version..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Moreno Veloso + 2 / Caetano Veloso

"...grin of "Rock 'n' Raul," red desert violins of "Michelangelo Antonioni" and crystal memories of "Meu Rio," pensive closer..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Slacker, the Map

It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. 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.

"...the venue to unspool the works of Stan Brakhage, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Jean-Luc Godard, as well as a host..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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