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The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema

by Michelangelo Antonioni

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Synopsis:

“A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality.” Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of Blow-Up and LAvventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision.

Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the directors unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera.

The Architecture of Vision provides a filmmakers absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonionis comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book.”&#8212;Publishers Weekly

 

“[Antonionis] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness.”&#8212;Film Quarterly

 

“This valuable resource offers entr&eacute;e to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances.”&#8212;Library Journal

About the Author

Michelangelo Antonioni is an Italian filmmaker who received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1995. He has directed more than thirty films, including LAvventura, The Passenger, and Blow-Up.
 
 

 

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface to the American edition by Marga Cottino-Jones

Preface to the first edition by Carlo di Carlo

The Gaze and the Story by Giorgio Tinazzi

My Cinema

My Experience

Making a Film is My Way of Life

Actors and Paradoxes

A Talk with Antonioni on His Work

Reflections on the Film Actor

The Event and the Image

Reality and Cinema Verite

Preface to Six Films

My Films

Attempted Suicides: Suicides in the City

The Girlfriends: Loyalty to Pavese 

Lavventura: The Adventures of Lavventura

Red Desert: My Desert

The White Forest 

Blow Up: It was born in London, but it is not an English film

Zabriskie Point: What This Land Says to me

A Conversation about Zabriskie Point 

Chung Kuo. Cina: Is it still possible to film a documentary?

China and the Chinese

The Passenger: The “Passenger” that you didnt see

Antonioni on the Seven-Minute Shot

The Mystery of Oberwald: Almost a confession

Interviews

A Conversation with Michelangelo Antonioni

An Interview with Michelangelo Antonioni

Apropos of Eroticism

I Am Tired of Todays Cinema

The World Is outside the Window

Myself and Cinema, Myself and Women

The History of Cinema is Made on Films

Profession Against

Ten Questions

Conversation

Identification of a Filmmaker

Interviews on Films

Story of a Love Affair

The Vanquished

Lavventura

La notte

The Eclipse

Red Desert 

The Night, the Eclipse, the Dawn

The American Desert

Zabriskie Point

The American Experience

A Constant Renewal

Talking of Michelangelo

Antonioni Discusses The Passenger

An in-Depth Search

The Director and Technology

A Film based on Conflict

Identification of a Woman

My Method

Interview

About the Author

Filmography

Selected Bibliography

Index

Product Details

ISBN:
9780226021140
Author:
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Editor:
Di Carlo, Carlo
Editor:
Tinazzi, Giorgio
Editor:
di Carlo, Carlo; Tinazzi, Giorgio; Cottina-Jones, Marga
Author:
Di Carlo, Carlo
Author:
Carlo di Carlo
Author:
Tinazzi, Giorgio
Author:
Cottina-Jones, Marga
Subject:
Film - Direction & Production
Subject:
Motion pictures
Subject:
Motion picture producers and directors
Subject:
Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
Subject:
Film & Video - Direction & Production
Subject:
Antonioni, michelangelo
Subject:
Film and Television-Production
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20071131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Pages:
430
Dimensions:
8.5 x 6 in

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“A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality.” Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of Blow-Up and LAvventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision.

Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the directors unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera.

The Architecture of Vision provides a filmmakers absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonionis comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book.”&#8212;Publishers Weekly

 

“[Antonionis] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness.”&#8212;Film Quarterly

 

“This valuable resource offers entr&eacute;e to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances.”&#8212;Library Journal

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