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Your Favorite Michelangelo Antonioni Film Is:

Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore)
0 (0%)
The Lady Without Camelias (La Signora senza camelie)
0 (0%)
I vinti
0 (0%)
Le amiche
0 (0%)
The Cry (Il grido)
0 (0%)
L'avventura
6 (14.6%)
La notte
2 (4.9%)
L'eclisse
3 (7.3%)
Red Desert (Il deserto rosso)
3 (7.3%)
Blowup
11 (26.8%)
Zabriskie Point
1 (2.4%)
Chung Kuo
0 (0%)
The Passenger
2 (4.9%)
The Mystery of Oberwald
0 (0%)
Identification of a Woman
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
8 (19.5%)
don't like any
5 (12.2%)
other
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 41

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chardy999

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Michelangelo Antonioni
« Reply #40 on: October 21, 2017, 01:07:08 AM »
L'avventura
Blowup


Antonioni leaves me more confused than amused.

Hmmm yes I am baffled after my latest addition...

L'avventura
Blowup
Red Desert
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Re: Antonioni, Michelangelo
« Reply #41 on: December 29, 2017, 12:59:28 AM »
Il Grido (1957)
* * * - Okay
I'm not a fan of Italian neorealism, but this also has Antonioni's existential angst. Typical of the director, it's not a film about what happens but how the characters react to what happens. Interesting to see Steve Cochran starring in an Italian film when I watched him in Storm Warning earlier this year.


Le Amiche (1955)
* * ½
One film earlier is one step back for the director. Mostly a Douglas Sirk style melodrama, though it also plays like The Women with all the laughs lost in translation. I had trouble keeping the five lead females and their stories apart and I mostly didn't care. However, there would be scenes where they would go and get lost someplace (like a beach) and you can feel Antonioni's talent rising to the surface.   

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Re: Antonioni, Michelangelo
« Reply #42 on: October 27, 2018, 02:49:34 PM »
La notte
Il deserto rosso (Red Desert)
L'eclisse
L'avventura
The Passenger
Blow-Up
Zabriskie Point
Il mistero di Oberwald (The Mystery of Oberwald)


 

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