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Jul
31
2007

Antonioni Dead at 94

Posted by Kurt Halfyard at 4:49am.

Posted in Film News , Continental Europe & Russia, Obituaries.

Two titans of cinema in the same week (see also Bergman) comes as a blow to cinema lovers, especially the heyday of Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.  Michelangelo Antonioni’s deliberately paced masterpieces L’Avventura, Blow-Up and The Passenger fused psychodrama, emotion and landscape in a unique way that remains influential to this day. 

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  1. petcor80 07/31/2007 @ 7:11am

    what!?!? this is almost surreal. I was thinking yesterday that Antonioni (ok, and most of the Nouvelle Vague directors) might be the last great cinema author of his generation left. But no more. Indeed a blow.
    RIP Antonioni

  2. The Visitor 07/31/2007 @ 7:59am

    i got a text message on my way home just now. thought my friend was kidding me. sigh.

  3. rpmasse 07/31/2007 @ 9:29am

    Michel Serrault, Bergman and now Antonioni? What a sad week.

  4. Marcio 07/31/2007 @ 12:04pm

    Two of my favorite directors dead in the space of a few days… a sad week indeed.

  5. Daze 07/31/2007 @ 2:36pm

    Make that two in the SAME day… Incredible…

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