Word: antonioni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a European director makes a film in English, the result is almost always disaster: Truffaut, Antonioni, Bergman, Visconti, Wertmuller have all come to grief when straying from their mother tongues. But Bertolucci, who once broke down the limits of propriety in Last Tango in Paris, has now crashed through the language barrier as well. With the crucial collaboration of Jill Clayburgh, he has made a movie in English without sacrificing any artistic integrity. Indeed, Luna may be his most controlled and personal film to date...
...could be objected that this failure to come up with a realistic denouement is a fault, but it is one that the film shares with works like L'Avventura and Blow-Up, whose director, Michelangelo Antonioni, has obviously had an influence on Peter Weir. As in the master's work, the criminal, if there is one, is society. It does not matter to Weir whether there was a sexual criminal lurking up there among the rocks, awaiting these young women who are easy prey, or if their own erotic repression led to some self-destructive hysterical...
DEWITT: Hey, there's no definitive nothing. Nowhere. I like Kubrick, and he's a cold bastard. I dig Antonioni. They use actors, but they're more concerned with exploring the boundaries of the medium. That's cool. Altman's films are sloppy, but so is true art. Your mother...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Bernardo Bertolucci, 38, Italian film director (Last Tango in Paris, 1900); and Clare Peploe, 31, his English assistant and onetime companion of Film Director Michelangelo Antonioni; both for the first time; on Dec. 16, in Rome...
...from Western literary traditions. Like his Argentine compatriot, Jorge Borges, Cortazar portrays a reality in which past, present and future exist simultaneously; a world where his characters are trapped in the labyrinth of modern society. Cortazar's two best-known works, the short story "Blow Up" (on which director Antonioni based his film) and the novel Hopscotch, exemplify his search for a new Latin American identity and his pet theme, alienation. Hopscotch's structure reflects its themes of circularity and fragmentation. It is two novels in one book; Cortazar suggests the reader approach the chapters both consecutively and in nonsequential...