{"id":906,"date":"2007-07-31T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/31\/michelangelo-antonioni-rip\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T14:46:10","slug":"michelangelo-antonioni-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/07\/31\/michelangelo-antonioni-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelangelo Antonioni RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Antonioni\"<\/a>Just a day after Ingmar Bergman<\/a> passing, news comes through that another cinematic legend is gone.<\/p>\n

The great Michelangelo Antonioni<\/a> <\/strong>has died in Rome aged 94.<\/p>\n

Aleesandro Rizzo of the AP reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, whose depiction of alienation made him a symbol of art-house cinema with movies such as “Blow-Up” and “L’Avventura,” has died, officials and news reports said Tuesday. He was 94.<\/p>\n

The ANSA news agency said that Antonioni died at his home on Monday evening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“With Antonioni dies not only one of the greatest directors but also a master of modernity,” Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Antonioni depicted alienation in the modern world through sparse dialogue and long takes. Along with Federico Fellini, he helped turn post-war Italian film away from the Neorealism movement and toward a personal cinema of imagination.<\/p>\n

In 1995, Hollywood honored his career work \u2014 about 25 films and several screenplays \u2014 with a special Oscar for lifetime achievement. By then Antonioni was a physically frail but mentally sharp 82, unable to speak but a few words because of a stroke but still translating his vision into film. The Oscar was stolen from Antonioni’s home in 1996, together with several other film prizes.<\/p>\n

His slow-moving camera never became synonymous with box-office success, but some of his movies such “Blow-Up,” “Red Desert” and “The Passenger” reached enduring fame.<\/p>\n

His exploration of such intellectual themes as alienation and existential malaise led Halliwell’s Film Guide to say that “L’Avventura,” Antonioni’s first critical success, made him “a hero of the highbrows.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you haven’t seen L’Avventura<\/strong><\/a>, Red Desert<\/a><\/strong>, Blow Up<\/strong><\/a> and The Passenger<\/strong><\/a> I would highly recommend them. Another film of interest – but relatively overlooked – is his beautiful segment to Beyond The Clouds<\/a><\/strong>, the 1995 film he made in collaboration with Wim Wenders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It turns out he died on the same day as Bergman – making July 30th<\/a> 2007<\/a> an especially sad day for cinema.<\/p>\n

> The full AP report of his death<\/a>
\n> IMDb entry for Micheangelo Antonioni<\/a>
\n> A profile of Antonioni by James Brown at Senses of Cinema<\/a>
\n> Andrew Pulver at The Guardian on some of Antonioni’s best scenes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a day after Ingmar Bergman passing, news comes through that another cinematic legend is gone. The great Michelangelo Antonioni has died in Rome aged 94. Aleesandro Rizzo of the AP reports: Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, whose depiction of alienation made him a symbol of art-house cinema with movies such as “Blow-Up” and “L’Avventura,” has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}