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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for a trio of films often dubbed the "alienation trilogy": L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962); the English-language film Blowup (1966); and the multilingual The Passenger (1975). His films have been described as "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that feature striking visual c…
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Born 29 September 1912 · Died 30 July 2007 · Q55433
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a rigid and stereotyped morality which all of us recognize as such and yet sustain out of cowardice and sheer laziness [...] We have examined those moral attitudes very carefully, we have dissected them and analyzed them to the point of exhaustion. We have been capable of all this, but we have not been capable of finding new ones.
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2026· 3 entries
“a rigid and stereotyped morality which all of us recognize as such and yet sustain out of cowardice and sheer laziness [...] We have examined those moral attitudes very carefully, we have dissected them and analyzed them to the point of exhaustion. We have been capable of all this, but we have not been capable of finding new ones.”
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The New York Times: Michelangelo Antonioni
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Identification of a Woman review – Michelangelo Antonioni’s midlife crisis of a movie
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2021· 1 entry
Yahoo: Michelangelo Antonioni Screenplay To Be Finally Shot by Gullane, Similar, Andre Ristum (EXCLUSIVE)
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2019· 1 entry
Forbes: Michelangelo Antonioni's 'The Passenger' Returns To U.K. Screens
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Michelangelo Antonioni, the shallow bore – archive, 1963
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2015· 1 entry
World Socialist Web Site: Michelangelo Antonioni—a flawed legacy
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2014· 1 entry
Filmmaker: Michelangelo Antonioni on the Utility of Mystery
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2008· 1 entry
"Technically Sweet" became an international group exhibition curated by Copenhagen-based artists Yvette Brackman and Maria Finn, in which the creations of artists, working in multiple mediums and based on Antonioni's man
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2007· 5 entries
Hindustan Times: Remembering Michelangelo Antonioni
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Died 2007-07-30.
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Stating that his films "posed mysteries—or rather the mystery, of who we are, what we are, to each other, to ourselves, to time
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“The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.”
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“We know that under the image revealed there is another which is truer to reality and under this image still another and yet again still another under this last one, right down to the true image of that reality, absolute, mysterious, which no one will ever see or perhaps right down to the decomposition of any image, of any reality.”
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2004· 1 entry
Jean-Luc Godard judges that Antonioni is the filmmaker who has most influenced contemporary cinema
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2002· 1 entry
That while he considered the Antonioni films Blowup and La notte masterpieces, he found the other films boring and noted that he had never understood why Antonioni was held in such esteem
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1995· 1 entry
Received an Honorary Oscar "in recognition of his place as one of cinema's master visual stylists"
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1994).
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Was given an Honorary Academy Award "in recognition of his place as one of cinema's master visual stylists"
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (1993).
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1985· 1 entry
Antonioni suffered a stroke that left him aphasic and partly paralyzed
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1983· 1 entry
Antonioni published the book That Bowling Alley on the Tiber, which contains sketch stories and musings he described as "nuclei" for possible films
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1980· 1 entry
Antonioni directed Il mistero di Oberwald (The Mystery of Oberwald), based on Jean Cocteau's play, L'Aigle à deux têtes (The Eagle With Two Heads)
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello Luchino Visconti (1976).
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1972· 1 entry
Antonioni was invited to China to film the achievements of the Cultural Revolution
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Nastro d'argento for best non-Italian film for Blowup (1968).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director for Blowup (1966).
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Antonioni drafted a treatment titled "Technically Sweet", which he later developed into a screenplay with Mark Peploe, Niccolo Tucci, and Tonino Guerra, with plans to begin filming in the early 1970s with Jack Nicholson
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1964· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for Red Desert (1964).
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Jury Prize for Eclipse (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Director for La Notte (1961).
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Jury Prize for L'Avventura (1960).
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Won Sutherland Trophy for L'Avventura (1960).
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1957· 1 entry
Won Golden Leopard for Il Grido (1957).
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film (1956).
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Awarded Grolla d'oro for Best Direction for Le Amiche (1956).
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1955· 1 entry
Earned Silver Lion (1955).
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1943· 1 entry
Travelled to France to assist Marcel Carné on Les visiteurs du soir and began a series of short films with Gente del Po (1943), a story of poor fishermen of the Po valley
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1942· 2 entries
Studied at Experimental Centre of Cinematography (1940–1942).
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Antonioni co-wrote A Pilot Returns with Roberto Rossellini and worked as assistant director on Enrico Fulchignoni's I due Foscari
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1940· 1 entry
Antonioni moved to Rome, where he worked for Cinema, the official Fascist film magazine edited by Vittorio Mussolini
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1935· 1 entry
Studied at University of Bologna (1935).
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-09-29.
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