Michelangelo Antonioni: 1912 - 2007

[Jason Murphy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/movies/31cnd-antonio.html

Antonioni was such an amazing filmmaker; his run of films from 1960-1964 (L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse and Red Desert) are better than most people could hope for in an entire career. He will be missed.

As an aside, first Bergman dies and now Antonioni. This is shaping up to be a bad week for legendary European filmmakers.

[Emanuel A.]

My love. I have no more words.

EDIT -- The cinema itself died between yesterday and today.

[Bruce Allen]

Whaaaat? This is such an awful time. I'm sad all over again now. He will be terribly missed. What a great director.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Hrvoje Simic]

A stroke couldn't stop him from creating...that's love.

Love and respect to the two brilliant artists.

Your artwork lives on...

[Emanuel A.]

My love. I have no more words.

EDIT -- The cinema itself died between yesterday and today.It seems both passed away yesterday. What a terrible day for the motion picture and the modern cinema. Its last two great creators are not any more among us. We lost them in one day, July 30 2007.

[Jason Murphy]

With the way things have been going this week, I've been half-waiting for news of Jean-Luc Godard's death. He and Alain Resnais seems to be the last of the old European art film giants.

[Kurt A]

We can only try to honour them by using all this new and exciting technology to create artistic work that lives up to their heritage. Film will never have the same cultural explosion as it had in the 20th century. It are different times and we must find our own creative explosion, true to our time. Please don't let it be youtube. As much as Red can help, it even goes beyond the scope of that. It's about achieving a certain mindset. With the first but without the second, the only thing you gain is technology. Nothing can inspire more than seeing the work of the great film makers we had. Now let's go to work...

(note: No, I don't have a Red reservation. I hope they make something beautiful out of the ppc. A mean lean new 'bolex' machine)

[Emanuel & Co]

One interviewer asked him to look back over his life. “In a world without film, what would you have made?” he was asked.

Mr. Antonioni replied: “Film.”



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/movies/31cnd-antonio.html?pagewanted=4

[Sanjin Jukic]

Antonioni was one of the four great European film directors followed by Fellini, Bunuel and Bergman.

[Poi Boy]

Very sad, one more of my heros gone. Aloha Michelangelo, you will be missed.
-A

[Emanuel A.]

I knew we had more to share beyond RED, Poi. ;-)

Yes, we'll miss him each day from last July 30.