Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press...
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Room 666
as SelfDuring the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at...
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Cinéma et Réalité
as SelfIn this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini...
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
as Self (archive footage)A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the...
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Wandering Heart
as SelfWandering Heart intimately follows Caetano from São Paulo to New York and Japan, during the...
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one...
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Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
as SelfA behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his...
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Michelangelo Eye to Eye
as HimselfItalian director Michelangelo Antonioni enters St. Peter's Church in Rome, wherein lies Italian...
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Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
as uncreditedTells the story of the photographers who cemented the image of swinging London and who, through...
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as SelfA film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the...
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Dear Antonioni
as SelfA documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.
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Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
as Self (archive footage)A look back at the life and works of Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Words in Progress
as uncreditedDocumentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
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Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
as SelfIn the film we find some scrap of slow motion they see a Monica Vitti trying to cry, a meeting...
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Underground New York
as HimselfA rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a...
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A Thousand and One Monica
as uncreditedThere is no shortage of words to define the actress, screenwriter and director Monica Vitti:...
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Un pò di Giappone
as SelfIn the 1980s, Michelangelo Antonioni traveled with his partner, actress and filmmaker Enrica...
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Antonioni visto da Antonioni
as SelfAn interview with Antonioni about his film career, shot in 1978 by eminent film critic, film...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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