Category: Monica Vitti

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
Actors, Actresses, Albert Finney, Animation, Boris Karloff, British Cinema, British New Wave, Crime, Horror, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Joseph Losey, Mia Farrow, Monica Vitti, Movie Reviews, Roman Polanski, Thrillers, Vincent Price

Film Writing Nov. 2016 – April 2017

It’s been awhile. Work obligations, as well as personal projects and other responsibilities, have taken precedence over updating my blogs. Of course, you can always find me on my Tumblr as well as Twitter & Facebook. Before I let another month get away, I thought I’d finally share an update to the film writing I’ve done for the last 6 months. I’ve broken topics up … Continue reading Film Writing Nov. 2016 – April 2017

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
Actors, Actresses, Bette Davis, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Monica Vitti, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, TCM

They said WHAT?!

Dirk Bograde & Monica Vittii in Modesty Blaise (1966) From my latest piece at the the Movie Morlocks: “In June actor Harrison Ford made news after publicly calling, Shia LaBeouf, his young costar from INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (Steven Spielberg; 2008) “…a f–king idiot.” Since then I’ve been thinking about insults that actors have hurled at other actors over the … Continue reading They said WHAT?!

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
Actresses, Ann-Margret, Anna Karina, Ava Gardner, Barbara Shelley, Barbara Steele, Bette Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Carroll Baker, Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Cardinale, Delphine Seyrig, Edwige Fenech, Elizabeth Taylor, Florinda Bolkan, Gene Tierney, Ingrid Pitt, Isabelle Adjani, Julie Christie, Katharine Hepburn, Marisa Mell, Meiko Kaji, Monica Vitti, Natalie Wood, Pamela Franklin, Rants & Raves, Ursula Andress

The Eyes Have It

My blogging buddy Peter Nellhaus over at Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee has asked me to contribute my own list of “20 Favorite Actresses” to a new film meme making the rounds of the blogosphere. Frankly I was just going to blow him off and ignore his request because these meme things tend to make me nuts but Peter is too nice a guy to … Continue reading The Eyes Have It

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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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Alain Delon, Books, Cannes 60th Anniversary, Francois Truffaut, French Cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, Monica Vitti, News, Robert Redford, Roman Polanski, Sean Connery

Vive La France!

The Cannes Film Festival turns 60 this week and that’s reason enough to celebrate all things fabulous and French, so I plan on doing just that throughout the next week until the festival wraps up. I haven’t come across many books written about the early days of Cannes but I can recommend Cannes – Fifty Years of Sun, Sex & Celluloid: Behind the Scenes at … Continue reading Vive La France!

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