The Summer 2011 issue of Requited is now online. It features: fiction by Josh Collins, Jess Upshaw Glass, Suzanne Scanlon, Ben Slotzky, and Simon A. Smith; poetry by Kristy Bowen, Nicelle Davis, Eric Ellingson, Molly Gaudry, Monica Gomery, Rich Ives, Alyse Knorr, Kate Martin Rowe, and J. A. Tyler; essays by Steve Katz, Mark Rappaport, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Michelangelo Antonioni’
I know I prefer auto ads when they swipe from Antonioni films
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Audi, cars, Maria Schneider, Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger, Yahoo Mail on March 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
From Yahoo Mail: Cf. Antonioni’s 1975 masterpiece The Passenger: (Notice how this clip’s presented by Audi? Even horrible corporations love Maria Schneider!)
In Memory of Maria Schneider
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bernardo Bertolucci, Jack Nicholson, Last Tango in Paris, Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roger Ebert, The Passenger on February 4, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Maria Schneider, the female lead in two of my all-time favorite films, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972) and Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger (1975), died yesterday from cancer. This depresses me quite a bit, actually—Schneider was a tremendous actor who never really got the credit she deserved for her remarkable performances in each of [...]
A Review of the Relatively New Movie Dogtooth (Kynodontas)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Antichrist (2009), Dogtooth, Frank Wedekind, Giorgos Lanthimos, Innocence (2004), Jeff Wall, Kynodontas, La niña santa (2004), Lucretia Martel, M. Night Shyamalan, Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger (1975), The Village, The Village (2004), Tsai Ming-Liang, What Time Is It There? on July 16, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Giorgos Lanthimos‘s third feature-length film, Dogtooth (Kynodontas, 2009), which is the kind of movie that makes one want to immediately write something about it.
Politics are Personal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged George W. Bush, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni on April 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
July 30, 2007 Morning: Bush lied, Bergman died. Evening: Bush lied, Antonioni died.
Women and Men
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ingmar Bergman, Mary Magdelene, Michelangelo Antonioni, Oscars, Terms of Endearment on February 10, 2010 | 36 Comments »
Kathryn Bigelow and her film The Hurt Locker are on tap to win Oscars and make history for becoming the first woman to win best director. The largest irony is that it would be for a film that is totally devoid of any significant female characters. It is a MAN’s film, a war film. [...]
Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Clockwork Orange, Aleksandr Sokurov, Alfred Hitchcock, André Bazin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andy Warhol, Anthony Burgess, Béla Tarr, Bullets Over Broadway, cinema, Colossal Youth, Conversazioni in Sicilia, Criterion Collection, Danièle Huillet's, Edie Sedgwick, Elio Vittorini, Funny Games, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Hollis Frampton, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jack Warden, Jean-Marie Straub, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Viterelli, John Cusack, Kuei-Mei Yang, Landscapes in the Mist, long take, Michael Haneke, Michael Snow, Michelangelo Antonioni, Miklós Jancsó, My Life as McDull, Nostalghia, Orson Welles, Pedro Costa, Peter Jackson, Red Psalm, Robert Altman, Rope, Russian Ark, Sean Astin, Shiang-chyi Chen, Sicilia!, Stalker, Stanley Kubrick, The Hole, The Lord of the Rings, The Mirror, The Passenger, The Player, The Shining, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Three Times, Toe Yuen, Touch of Evil, Trilogy The Weeping Meadow, Tsai Ming-Liang, Vinyl, Wavelength, Werckmeister Harmonies, Woody Allen on January 8, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of films that consist primarily of the beautiful things. So here is a start at such a list. (And here is another one, which like this list embeds many YouTube clips, such as the magnificent opening [...]