Now Available to Own Amazon Photo Slideshow Being nicknamed "The Italian Stallion" was one thing but had Rocky creator Sylvester Stallone been so inclined, he could've taken a cue from Italian filmmakers Federico Fellini or Michelangelo Antonioni and simply opted for a vague or allegorical ending for all six of his movies. To the audience and regardless of the fact that the ultimate bouts...
In this short film by artist An Te Liu , lead actress Pookie LaChatte acts out several roles from Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow Up . The set for the film is a scale model of Joe Day's installation Blow x Blow (pictured below). This is high concept cuteness!
The Criterion Collection has an agreement with IFC Films to put some of its more noteworthy acquisitions on DVD, and so we have Matteo Garrone’s outstanding Gomorrah. I reviewed the film back in March. Earlier this year I didn’t feel ready to commit to a proper Top 10 list for films released in 2008, but [...]
Today's stars! Well not literally today 's but November 18th . Get a little history. Celebrate one of these cinematic entities today in whatever way occurs to you. Senors Gilbert, Hemmings and Infante 1836 W.S. Gilbert of 'Gilbert & Sullivan' legend. If you've never seen Mike Leigh's exceptional biopic of this creative giant, Topsy-Turvy , drop everything right now and do so. 1908 Imogene Coca...
One of the best-known films of all time is Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, about a London photographer who believes he may have inadvertently recorded a crime on film, but learns how meaning is lost the more intensely he looks at the details of a photograph. Not so, of course, on the various CSI shows, where investigators not only zoom in on any image - security video, phone video, etc. - but get...
Film, Fashion and Fame: Directors, costumers have paired up for fashion -- Italian cinema has never lacked for style, especially with directors like Federico Fellini and the mastery of costume design savants like Piero Gherardi.
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
I don't usually dedicate my posts, but Randall Todd, this one's for you... The Italian actress Monica Vitti is best known for her starring roles in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura series. Her quirky face features cat-like eyes, a broad mouth and a sprinkling of freckles, while her amazing mane of hair is always just-so-sexily-toussled. Her hair is also the thing that makes her a chameleon onscreen...
In Fernando Eimbcke's film, a young man goes on a quest to fix his car, finding a human connection when he desperately needs it. At first glance "Lake Tahoe," the second feature by the 39-year-old Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke, looks very much like your standard minimalist import. Laconic characters, a fixed camera and unhurried rhythms amount these days to a lingua franca for international...
Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, The Return of Marcus Sextus , Oil on canvas, 217 x 243 cm, 1799 ( source ) "The characters in a tragedy, the places; the air one breathes-these are sometimes more fascinating than the tragedy itself, the moments preceding tragedy and those that follow it, when the action is firm and speech falls silent." - Michelangelo Antonioni
Style icons? David Bowie, Dennis Hooper & Fred Astaire Personal style quirk? Always leave room for assumption! Also, my accessories - I have my signature pieces made for me, and wear them all at the same time or not at all. If I have a business meeting I may not wear any accessories other than overstated cuff links. Any accessory must be a focal point, and really say something. Favorite designers...
8220;Are you staying or going?” That question, put to the brooding, itinerant Aldo (Steve Cochran), resounds through Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1957 film “Il Grido,” which screens at BAM on Nov. 9. It remains one of his least recognized films but also one of his most . . .
Image via Tom Sutpen. A flat expanse of landscape on the Po delta. A village of low, colored houses. The sidewalk continues beyond the end of the street. No more houses flanking it, only the sidewalk proceeding all by itself toward the embankment. At night there’s always a small empty truck, as though it’s owner lived there, [...]
Cortázar's vividly experimental, uncanny tales are among the best work of 'el boom' in Latin American writing Since his death in 1984, Argentine novelist, poet and short story writer Julio Cortázar 's reputation in the English-speaking world has fluctuated, the trend heading more towards a waning than a waxing. Known-of rather than widely read, some recognition is still afforded him...
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