Michelangelo Antonioni : interviews / edited by Bert Cardullo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cardullo, Bert.

Series:

Conversations with filmmakers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antonioni, Michelangelo--Interviews.

Antonioni, Michelangelo.

Motion picture producers and directors--Italy--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Italy.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xli, 178 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008]

Summary:

In the 1960s and 1970s, Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) forged a cinematic language that reflected a changed, postwar world. His early successes, including L'avventura (1960) and La notte (1961), reshaped film drama by focusing so intently on characters (particularly couples) that plot was often a secondary concern. He also moved away from the social realism of his Italian peers. His most notable English-language films, from Blow Up (1966) to Zabriskie Point (1970), engage contemporary politics and modern social alienation.

Michelangelo Antonioni: Interviews collects a broad range of conversations with this iconoclastic filmmaker, including one, never before in print, with the editor of this volume. In interviews ranging from 1960 to 1983, Antonioni discusses his neuroses, his cinematic concerns, his roots in Italian neorealism, and the reasons he ultimately broke free of the style's constraints. He insists that the struggle to understand the inner lives of characters is the crucial issue that cinema must tackle.

Contents:

A Conversation with Michelangelo Antonioni / Andre Labarthe 3

An Interview with Antonioni / Michele Manceaux 11

A Talk with Michelangelo Antonioni on His Work / Film Culture 21

An Interview with Michelangelo Antonioni / Pierre Billard 46

Zabriskie Point / Marsha Kinder 70

Michelangelo Antonioni / Charles Thomas Samuels 79

Antonioni Discusses The Passenger / Betty Jeffries Demby, Larry Sturhahn 104

Antonioni Speaks ... and Listens / Renee Epstein 115

Antonioni after China: Art versus Science / Gideon Bachmann 121

An Interview with Michelangelo Antonioni / American Cinematographer 131

Film Is Life: An Interview with Michelangelo Antonioni / Bert Cardullo 138

Antonioni in 1980: An Interview / Seymour Chatman 155

Life Is Inconclusive: A Conversation with Michelangelo Antonioni / Frank P. Tomasulo 162

A Love of Today: An Interview with Michelangelo Antonioni / Gideon Bachmann 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography: pages xxix-xli.

ISBN:

9781934110652

1934110655

9781934110669

1934110663

OCLC:

179106738