Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Michelangelo Antonioni on his birthday 🎂
📷 Raymond Depardon, 1970
"The enigmas in Antonioni’s work are as subject to time as monuments are to erosion, & the achievements of some films can offset or explain the apparent, or early, limits of others."
- David Thomson

Michelangelo Antonioni by Santi Visalli, 1975
"I need to follow my characters beyond the moments conventionally considered important, to show them even when everything appears to have been said."

Coffee with the Masters on #NationalCoffeeDay ☕️
John Boorman, Billy Wilder, Michelangelo Antonioni (whose birthday is today) & Satyajit Ray get together to talk during the 35th International Cannes Film festival
📷 Ralph Gatti, May 14, 1982

Michelangelo Antonioni by Elliott Erwitt
Rome, 1965
"Antonioni embodied a time in mid-century when cinemagoing was an intellectual pursuit, when purposely opaque passages in famously difficult films spurred long nights of smoky argument at sidewalk cafés."
- Rick Lyman

Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of Blow Up
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1966
"It's only when I press my eye against the camera and begin to move the actors that I get an exact idea of the scene."

Michelangelo Antonioni & actress Daria Halprin during the filming of Zabriske Point, 1978
A fabulous shot by Bruce Davidson!

Michelangelo Antonioni by Renaud Monfourny, 2000s
"He challenged moviegoers with an intense focus on intentionally vague characters and a disdain for such mainstream conventions as plot, pacing and clarity."
- Rick Lyman

Michelangelo Antonioni hanging out at Zabriskie Point
📷 Bruce Davidson, 1968
"His earlier films have made us think of Antonioni as vulnerable; he shouldn't have exposed himself like this."
- Roger Ebert
"A maligned masterpiece."
- David Jenkins

I just re-read Julio Cortázar's marvellous story "The Devil's Drool", aka "Blow-Up", based on a story told to him by photographer Sergio Larrain. It was the inspiration for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up.
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