L'Avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni, whose depiction of alienation made him a symbol of art-house cinema with movies such as L'Avventura, has died, officials and news reports said Tuesday.

GreenCine Daily 2009

A quiet funeral is planned in Ferrara, his birthplace in northern Italy, this Thursday, "reports Penelope Houston recalls L'Avventura's tumultuous reception at Cannes in 1960:

GreenCine Daily 2009

Themes of isolation and existential bewilderment were common in Antonioni classics including "L'Avventura" and "L'Eclisse", but "Red Desert" marked the Italian director's first foray into color.

Wandering in the 'Desert' Andy Battaglia 2011

But there's also a revival of Ingmar Bergman 's saga of adolescent passion, "Summer with Monika," Andy Warhol 's feverish "My Hustler" and the eternal cool of Monica Vitti in Antonioni's "L'Avventura."

Singing and Dancing on Celluloid Steve Dollar 2011

Now it's back at the Barbican with Antonioni Project, a tribute to the Italian modernist film director Michelangelo Antonioni and his groundbreaking 1960s trilogy of movies: L'Avventura, La Notte and L'Eclisse.

This week's new theatre 2011

Films such as L'Avventura (1960) and Blow-Up (1966) then in Passenger (1975), made a virtue of leaving clues unanswered and discrepancies unexplained.

How Inception proves the art of baffling films does make sense 2010

For the last ten years, I've wanted to take back the three hours that I spent watching L'Avventura, but now, just for the feeling of cultural-literacy supremacy I got from one hliarious caption, that endless evening in a hot theater has finally been justified.

Pure Geography 2007

Frank P Tomasulo looks at how Michelangelo Antonioni "uses mise-en-scène and other formal articulations" in L'Avventura "to convey both disgust and sympathy for the Italian bourgeoisie during the postwar 'boom' years."

GreenCine Daily: Jump Cut. 49. 2007

On the one hand, Denby prefers the "open form" of L'Avventura: "[I] t didn't play around with time sequences, but it altered our sense of how life works."

GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts. 2007

Well, I can't deliver you that, of course, but here to perhaps set your mind reeling to far-flung locales are the highlights (as I see it) of the just-announced lineup for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival (the "L'Avventura"-themed poster for which is at right), which kicks off May 13 with the opening night screening of Pixar's "Up" (not too shabby a starting point.)

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