Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni

Born: September 29, 1912
Died: July 30, 2007
in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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.

Movies for Michelangelo Antonioni...

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Title: Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: April 2, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Title: Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 10, 2017
Type: Movie
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Close Up
Title: Close Up
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 30, 2012
Type: Movie
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
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Wandering Heart
Title: Wandering Heart
Character: Self
Released: July 24, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Antonioni su Antonioni
Title: Antonioni su Antonioni
Character: Himself
Released: August 31, 2008
Type: Movie
A documentary on the life, work, and character of Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Back to Room 666
Title: Back to Room 666
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 2, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
Title: Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
Character: Self
Released: September 4, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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A Thousand and One Monica
Title: A Thousand and One Monica
Released: August 16, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Michelangelo Eye to Eye
Title: Michelangelo Eye to Eye
Character: Himself
Released: May 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni enters St. Peter's Church in Rome, wherein lies Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarotti's statue of Moses.
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Words in Progress
Title: Words in Progress
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
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Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
Title: Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
Released: August 10, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
Title: Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A look back at the life and works of Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Dear Antonioni
Title: Dear Antonioni
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.
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Un pò di Giappone
Title: Un pò di Giappone
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
In the 1980s, Michelangelo Antonioni traveled with his partner, actress and filmmaker Enrica Fico Antonioni, to Japan with the intent of creating a documentary, Un viaggio in Giappone, that would chronicle “the social transformations undergoing in Japan through the experimental use of new film technologies,” specifically the Betacam. Un pò di Giappone is the shortened version of the documentary.
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Antonioni, la dernière séquence
Title: Antonioni, la dernière séquence
Character: himself
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Title: Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
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Room 666
Title: Room 666
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 1982
Type: Movie
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"
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Antonioni visto da Antonioni
Title: Antonioni visto da Antonioni
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An interview with Antonioni about his film career, shot in 1978 by eminent film critic, film historian and founder of the Pesaro Film Festival, Lino Miccichè. Karlovy Vary IFF 2012
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Underground New York
Title: Underground New York
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.
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Cinéma et Réalité
Title: Cinéma et Réalité
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
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Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
Title: Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 1965
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the former empress of Persia. Featuring interviews with Monica Vitti, Tonino Guerra and more.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Title: I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and interviews.