Showing posts with label Michelangelo Antonioni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michelangelo Antonioni. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 August 2021

Il mio viaggio in Italia (1999)


 

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.  

Scorsese manages to present a both very personal and insightful history of Italian cinema, picking excellent singular films and scenes to delve more deeply into the art of these works and their relevance to cinema history in general.



 

Friday, 6 November 2020

Chambre 666 (1982)


 

 
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, German director Wim Wenders asks fifteen other famous directors to give their views on the future of cinema.
 
Curious short documentary with an interesting idea is fascinating for its array of important directors and their views, but is generally, due to the temporal nature of the query, outdated. 



Thursday, 9 January 2020

Thursday, 27 June 2019

L'avventura (1960)



A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

Allegorical and mildly surreal mystery drama with complex, mostly disagreeable characters is captured in meticulously beautifully staged scenes and leaves its audience in limbo throughout.

Halliwell**: "Aimless, overlong parable with lots of vague significance; rather less entertaining than the later Picnic at Hanging Rock, it made its director a hero of the highbrows."

Maltin***1/2: "Subtle, incisive allegory of spiritual and moral decay makes for demanding viewing."

Saturday, 10 October 2015

Sunday, 26 April 2015