Michelangelo Antonioni

Directing · Born 1912-09-29 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Biography

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities". Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film…

Filmography

• Close Up as Self (archive footage)
• Michelangelo Eye to Eye as Self
• Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit as Self (archive footage)
• Back to Room 666 as Self (archive footage)
• Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer as Self
• Words in Progress
• Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema as Self (archive footage)
• Room 666 as Self
• Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials as Self
• Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up as Self (archive footage)