Michelangelo Antonioni

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Sep 29, 1912 (112 years old)
Death date
Jul 30, 2007

Michelangelo Antonioni

Known For

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
0h 54m
Movie 2018

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Movie 2017

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

Wandering Heart
1h 11m
Movie 2009

Wandering Heart

Wandering Heart intimately follows Caetano from São Paulo to New York and Japan, during the release of his first album recorded solely in English. It takes considerably more than a week-long series of shows at Carnegie Hall, accolades in the New York Times, or the admiration of friends like Pedro Almodóvar, David Byrne and Michelangelo Antonioni to make Caetano feel comfortable outside of Brazil.

Antonioni su Antonioni
0h 55m
Movie 2008

Antonioni su Antonioni

A documentary on the life, work, and character of Michelangelo Antonioni.

Back to Room 666
0h 15m
Movie 2008

Back to Room 666

What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera.

Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
0h 38m
Movie 2007

Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima

In the film we find some scrap of slow motion they see a Monica Vitti trying to cry, a meeting between Antonioni and Grifi, a film shot in the concentration camp of Auschwitz with a survivor who recounts those awful moments, a glimpse of Palestine today, Grifi's reflections on the prison.

A Thousand and One Monica
0h 47m
Movie 2006

A Thousand and One Monica

There is no shortage of words to define the actress, screenwriter and director Monica Vitti: Intense, beautiful, sensual, eclectic, intelligent, muse... She was a shining star during the golden age of Italian cinema. She is a legendary figure who served as example for generations of young filmmakers. Monica Vitti’s story is the story of Italian cinema; her life is inextricably linked to the medium. This documentary shows the sheer physicality of her acting; her visceral style which demanded that everything, personality defects included, was integrated into her unique performances.

Words in Progress
0h 52m
Movie 2004

Words in Progress

Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.

Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
2h 0m
Movie 2002

Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up

Tells the story of the photographers who cemented the image of swinging London and who, through their pictures, irreversibly altered the face of fashion and pop.

Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
0h 56m
Movie 2001

Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema

A look back at the life and works of Michelangelo Antonioni.

Biography

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities". Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1960, 1962), Palme d'Or (1966), and 35th Anniversary Prize (1982); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion (1955), Golden Lion (1964), FIPRESCI Prize (1964, 1995), and Pietro Bianchi Award (1998); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995. He is one of three directors to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear, and the only director to have won these three and the Golden Leopard.

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