Category: Michelangelo Antonioni

Actors, Actresses, Alain Delon, American Cinema, George Romero, Horror, Italian Cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Movie Reviews

THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: L’ECLISSE (1962)

While recently rewatching Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (aka The Eclipse, 1962) I received the sad news that George Romero had died. The celebrated Italian art-house auteur and the American director behind the hugely popular Living Dead franchise aren’t typically associated with one another but I suspect that Antonioni’s work may have inspired Romero early in his career. In The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead, author and film … Continue reading THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: L’ECLISSE (1962)

Kimberly Lindbergs
Italian Cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Movie Reviews, Richard Harris

SURVEYING THE RED DESERT (1964)

“There’s something terrible about reality and I don’t know what it is.” – Giuliana (Monica Vitti) Modern malaise and alienation are two themes that Michelangelo Antonioni (L’Avventura [1960], La notte[1961], L’eclisse [1962]) returned to repeatedly throughout the 1960s. In Red Desert (1964), which is currently streaming on FilmStruck and available on DVD and Blu-ray from Criterion, these ideas find expression in Italy’s postwar industrial landscape and in Monica Vitti’s large eyes. Vitti was … Continue reading SURVEYING THE RED DESERT (1964)

Kimberly Lindbergs
Actresses, Costume Design, Mia Farrow, Michelangelo Antonioni, Norman Jewison, Roman Polanski, Steve McQueen, William Klein

Vidal Sassoon 1928-2012

The British hairdresser who helped define the look of the swinging sixties has died. He’s probably best remembered for giving Mia Farrow her pixie cut during the making of ROSEMARY’S BABY, which she wore for years but the stylist also created signature looks for ’60s super model Peggy Moffitt, designer Mary Quant and actresses like Nancy Kwan, Carol Channing and his wife Beverly Adams. I … Continue reading Vidal Sassoon 1928-2012

Kimberly Lindbergs
American Cinema, British Cinema, Directors, DVD of the Week, Favorite 2010 DVDs, Hammer Horror, Helmut Berger, Horror, Japanese Cinema, Joseph Losey, Laurence Harvey, Lee Marvin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Movie Reviews, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Westerns

FAVORITE DVD RELEASES OF 2010

Every year I try to compile a list of my favorite new DVD releases. These lists tend to focus on films from the ’60s and ’70s since they’re my favorite film eras. This year I decided to expand my view a little and disregard limitations so I could share a varied list of all my favorite DVD releases with Movie Morlock readers. This list is … Continue reading FAVORITE DVD RELEASES OF 2010

Kimberly Lindbergs
Criterion, Michelangelo Antonioni, News

Do You Auteur?

About 5 or 6 months ago I joined The Auteurs. The Auteurs is a Criterion sponsored film site where each member has their own Profile Page and you can watch films, rate films, add films to your “Favorites” and “Watch” lists, and chat with other members in the community forum. I haven’t participated in many forum discussions there, but I do enjoy the ongoing Fake … Continue reading Do You Auteur?

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Akira Kurosawa, Alain Delon, Alain Resnais, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Mario Bava, Michelangelo Antonioni, News

List Making

Pictured Above: High and Low (1963), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) Eyes Without a Face (1960) Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) I was invited to participate in putting together a list of Favorite Foreign Language Films at Edward Copeland’s blog recently which is now open to online voting and I hope my blog readers will cast their vote for their … Continue reading List Making

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Alain Delon, David Hemmings, Directors, Italian Cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, News

Michelangelo Antonioni 1912 – 2007

You ask what you should watch. I ask how I should live. It’s the same thing. – Corrado Zeller (Richard Harris) in Antonioni’s The Red Desert (1964) Cinephiles have suffered some great losses in recent days with the death of Ingmar Bergman, actor Michel Serrault and now Michelangelo Antonioni. I was really touched by all the great tributes I read to Bergman yesterday but I … Continue reading Michelangelo Antonioni 1912 – 2007

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Actors, British Cinema, Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Michelangelo Antonioni, Terence Stamp

Terence Stamp Turns 68

One of my favorite actors is the handsome, talented and all-around extraordinary Terence Stamp who is celebrating his 68th birthday today. Stamp got interested in acting at the tender age of four after seeing Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939), but he didn’t decide to seriously pursue acting until he was seventeen years old. On New Years Eve in 1956 Stamp went to a screening … Continue reading Terence Stamp Turns 68

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Directors, George Hilton, Giallo, Horror, Italian Cinema, Lucio Fulci, Michelangelo Antonioni

Lucio Fulci – A Look Back

Lucio Fulci b. June 17, 1927 – d. March 13, 1996 Today is the 11th Anniversary of Italian director Lucio Fulci’s death. To celebrate the life of one of my favorite filmmakers I thought I would share a brief overview of Fulci’s early career in cinema, which is often overshadowed by his later years as a popular director of gory horror films and stylish thrillers. … Continue reading Lucio Fulci – A Look Back

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Crime, Criterion, Favorite 2006 DVDs, Giallo, Italian Cinema, Jess Franco, John Barry, Klaus Kinski, Michael Caine, Michelangelo Antonioni, Movie Reviews, Spanish Cinema

Favorite DVD Releases of 2006 – Part III.

This is the final part of my 30 Favorite DVD Releases of 2006 list that I’ve been slowly putting together. You can find Parts I. and II. HERE. Please keep in mind that these are all official NTSC Region 1 DVDs of films originally released between 1960 and 1979 and the numerical order means absolutely nothing except that I got these brief reviews written up … Continue reading Favorite DVD Releases of 2006 – Part III.

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