Michelangelo Antonioni
June 15–August 31, 2018
This comprehensive retrospective is a rare chance to explore the full range of an Italian modernist master’s formally dazzling work.
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L’avventura
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La notte
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Red Desert
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Blow-Up
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Zabriskie Point
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The Passenger
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L’avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1960Imported Print
Friday, June 15 7 PMView DetailsMonica Vitti on a desert island in “a mystery that casually abandons its ostensible premise midway through. . . . Cinema as temporal sculpture” (Village Voice). “The first (and the definitive) film about the diminishing attention span of a modern world” (New York Times).
La notte
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1961Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Film to Table dinner follows the August 25 screeningSunday, June 17 7 PMView DetailsNovelist Marcello Mastroianni and his wife Jeanne Moreau play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture.
L'eclisse
Michelangelo Antonioni
France, Italy, 1962Digital Restoration
Wednesday, June 20 7 PMView Details“Antonioni’s 1962 masterpiece showcases Monica Vitti as his moodiest, most evasive heroine, drifting out of one affair and into another with Alain Delon’s mercurial stockbroker” (Village Voice). “Perhaps the director’s most savage blast of gorgeous B&W ennui” (Time Out).
L’avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1960Imported Print
Thursday, June 28 7 PMView DetailsMonica Vitti on a desert island in “a mystery that casually abandons its ostensible premise midway through. . . . Cinema as temporal sculpture” (Village Voice). “The first (and the definitive) film about the diminishing attention span of a modern world” (New York Times).
Red Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1964Saturday, June 30 6 PMView DetailsAntonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time).
Story of a Love Affair
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, 1950Imported Print
Sunday, July 1 7 PMView DetailsAntonioni’s first feature is loosely based on The Postman Always Rings Twice, but turns a torrid love story into a tale of corruption and betrayal in postwar industrial society.
Red Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1964Wednesday, July 4 7 PMView DetailsAntonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time).
The Lady Without Camellias
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, 1953Imported Print
Saturday, July 7 6 PMView DetailsA Milanese shopgirl becomes a movie actress, but not a great one, in this expressive early melodrama. “Antonioni transcends the traditional hypocrisies of the soap-opera genre, [yet] never loses touch with the throbbing feelings of his characters” (Village Voice).
I vinti
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, 1952Sunday, July 8 7 PMView DetailsThree moral tales observe the dehumanized behavior of postwar youth; aimlessness is reflected in the landscape as much as in the action.
Le amiche
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, 1955Imported Print
Saturday, July 14 8:15 PMView DetailsAntonioni inspects the social architecture of 1950s Turin in this portrait of a group of fashionable young women, “masterfully directed in Antonioni’s choreographic manner, with strong melancholic undertones” (Chicago Reader).
Il grido
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, United States, 1957Imported Print
Thursday, July 19 7 PMView DetailsAmid the desolate vistas of the Po Valley, “an angry working man wanders impulsively through a world that has no place for him. Pervasive mist, fluid compositions, and melancholy piano add to the disorientation” (Village Voice).
Blow-Up
Michelangelo Antonioni
United Kingdom, 1966Digital Restoration
Saturday, July 21 6 PMView Details“Simply put, the key movie of the 1960s. Set in a vividly mod Swinging London, Antonioni’s first English-language film [is] a cryptic murder mystery . . . a landmark of the decade’s observational outrage and Pop disposability” (Time Out).
Zabriskie Point
Michelangelo Antonioni
United States, 1970Saturday, July 28 8 PMView DetailsAntonioni filmed the 1960s war between radical and straight cultures in L.A. and Death Valley, creating “a sorrowing, stranger’s-eye view of modern America” (Time Out).
Short Films by Antonioni, Program 1
Imported Prints
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!Wednesday, August 1 7 PMView DetailsAn evening of short documentary and narrative works by the Italian master, including The People of the Po, Lies of Love, Superstition, The Villa of Monsters, Suicide Attempt (from the omnibus film Love in the City), and more.
The Passenger
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, Spain, United States, 1975Wednesday, August 8 7 PMView DetailsDecades later, Antonioni’s 1975 film “still packs a wallop. . . . This moody Jack Nicholson political thriller remains a great, bizarre film, full of beauty, mystery, and riddles with no answers” (Chicago Tribune).
Short Films by Antonioni, Program 2
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Saturday, August 11 5 PMView DetailsThis evening’s program of shorts ranges from the island setting of L’avventura to India and Sicily. Plus Enrica Antonioni’s portrait of her husband’s passion for cinema, To Make a Film Is to Be Alive.
The Mystery of Oberwald
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, 1980Imported Print
Sunday, August 12 4 PMView DetailsAdapted from a drama by Jean Cocteau, the story of a queen (Monica Vitti), her king, a poet, and treachery and murder in an unidentified kingdom. “A work of dazzling ambition and achievement” (Time).
Identification of a Woman
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1982Imported Print
Sunday, August 19 7 PMView DetailsIn 1982, Antonioni returned to the themes of his great 1960s films—alienation and ennui among the well-to-do—for this enigmatic, erotic work. “A brilliant, glittering piece of filmmaking . . . stunningly beautiful” (Sight & Sound).
L’avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1960Imported Print
Wednesday, August 22 7 PMView DetailsMonica Vitti on a desert island in “a mystery that casually abandons its ostensible premise midway through. . . . Cinema as temporal sculpture” (Village Voice). “The first (and the definitive) film about the diminishing attention span of a modern world” (New York Times).
Beyond the Clouds
Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders
Italy, France, Germany, 1995Imported Print
Friday, August 24 8:45 PMView DetailsThis late work is a resolutely idiosyncratic treatise on that most old-fashioned of themes: beauty. With John Malkovich, Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Irène Jacob, Peter Weller, and Jean Reno. “One of the major films of the decade” (Film Comment).
La notte
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1961Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Film to Table dinner follows the August 25 screeningSaturday, August 25 5:30 PMView DetailsNovelist Marcello Mastroianni and his wife Jeanne Moreau play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture.
Chung Kuo China
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, China, 1972Imported Print
Sunday, August 26 2 PMView DetailsA meditation on China in the throes of the Cultural Revolution. “The rarest of rare, this epic documentary is as legendary as it is unseen” (Cinematheque Ontario).
L'eclisse
Michelangelo Antonioni
France, Italy, 1962Digital Restoration
Wednesday, August 29 7 PMView Details“Antonioni’s 1962 masterpiece showcases Monica Vitti as his moodiest, most evasive heroine, drifting out of one affair and into another with Alain Delon’s mercurial stockbroker” (Village Voice). “Perhaps the director’s most savage blast of gorgeous B&W ennui” (Time Out).
Red Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1964Friday, August 31 7 PMView DetailsAntonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time).
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