Word: bogdanovich
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...lived in Los Angeles knows how perception is changed by spending half of one's life in a moving car. Tangible responses and strong emotions are triggered instantly by faces, signs, buildings that pass by in seconds. The montage is violently edited, aggressively recreating this warped perception. Unlike Bogdanovich's Targets, where endless L. A. street footage is accompanied by characters lamenting its over-all ugliness, Antonioni's L. A. is active in his characters' lives. The scene is lightweight taken as a judgment on urban decay. Seen as Antonioni's interpretation of landscape, it provides a clue...