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astrolobe33
Fifth Love
USA
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 Posted - 09/08/2007 : 20:52:33
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Michaelangelo Antonioni (September 29, 1912 - July 30, 2007), director of the films "Blow Up" and "Zabriskie Point" died last week, on the same day as another great filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman (b. July 14, 1918).
R.I.P. |
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LeeRob
Fifth Love
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Posted - 09/08/2007 : 21:57:53
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Amazing isn't it, I remember seeing their films in the 60's at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge.
(just as an aside: It came to mind that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day as well...hmm.) |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 10/08/2007 : 15:22:41
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| yes great film makers...but complicated!!... |
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astrolobe33
Fifth Love
USA
381 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2007 : 16:59:48
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Originally posted by rocker
yes great film makers...but complicated!!...
Not especially happy films from either of them, were they. Antonioni with the existential malaise, and Bergman so intense and cerebral. |
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astrolobe33
Fifth Love
USA
381 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2007 : 17:05:29
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Originally posted by LeeRob
Amazing isn't it, I remember seeing their films in the 60's at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge.
(just as an aside: It came to mind that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day as well...hmm.)
I didn't remember that. And so did John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley! In very different ways in their case of course. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2007 : 18:18:10
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yeah you wouldn't get "Singin' In the Rain" with Ingmar... |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/08/2007 : 11:31:09
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Strangely, I had seen the new print of Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' only a few days before his passing - and I had found it much more fascinating and thought provoking than I ever did before. As for Antonioni - seeing 'The Passenger' in 1975 was a kind of coming of age for me. For the first time I began to appreciate how intelligent cinema can do so much more than tell a story. Both directors have left us with a wonderful legacy. |
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Arnstein
Fifth Love
Norway
340 Posts |
Posted - 13/08/2007 : 01:07:05
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I love Bergman! I have The Seventh Seal, Hour of the Wolf, Persona and Autumn Sonata! Love them!
And you must not forget that also Michel Serrault died the same week! Seems like Death don't have vacation in the summer, unfortunately. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 13/08/2007 : 14:33:51
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I just read a bit on Scorsese who really can't get enough of Antonioni and his films. Antonioni affected his work very much.
I'd say Arthur fits in here pretty well in that he also (through his music as opposed to film) just like Bergman and Antonioni focused on the "human condition". And as Morrison said, "no one here gets out alive", we all do what we can while we hang around, eh???..;-)....
L'Avventura's the one which got Scorsese going. Also, Blow-Up is another good film which I'm sure everyone here is familiar with. |
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