Michelangelo Antonioni
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PERSONAL DATA OF MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Born in: FERRARA (Italy)
Born on: 09/29/1912
Dies at: Rome Italy)
He dies on: 07/30/2007
BIOGRAPHY OF MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Film director. Born and raised in a middle-class family, during the years spent at the University of Bologna he began to get passionate about the theater and collaborated with Corriere Padano as a film critic. After graduating in Economics and Commerce, he moved to Rome, enrolled at the Experimental Center of Cinematography and wrote for the magazine ‘Cinema’. Soon, however, he gives up everything and after having collaborated on the screenplay of “A pilot returns” (1942) by Roberto Rossellini he goes to France where he gains experience as assistant director to Marcel Carnè. Back in Italy, in 1943 he made his first documentary “Gente del Po” which, however, he managed to conclude only in 1947 due to the war. Until the end of the 1940s he devoted himself to journalism, to screenwriting – collaborating with Giuseppe De Santis, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti – and devoted himself to documentary making, also achieving considerable technical knowledge. Thanks to “Nettezza Urbana” (1948) and “L’amorosa menzogna” (1949) he received the Silver Ribbon for the best documentary. With the first feature film “Cronaca di un amore” (1950) he immediately stands out and gets a special Silver Ribbon “for human and stylistic values”. In 1956 he won the Silver Ribbon for Best Direction and the Silver Lion in Venice with “Le amici” (1955) but with the ‘trilogy’ “L’avventura” (1960), “La notte” (1960) ) and “L’eclisse” (1961) which attracted the attention of the public and national and international critics. With these films he earned numerous awards including the special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival (1960/62) and the Golden Bear in Berlin (1960). In 1964 he abandoned black and white and made his first color film “Red Desert” which, presented in Venice, won the Golden Lion and the FIPRESCI prize. With “Blow-up” (1966) he receives his first and only Oscar nomination as a director (he will receive one for Lifetime Achievement in 1995) and wins the Palme d’Or at Cannes. In 1983 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Venice. Remained away from the set for several years following a stroke that deprived him of the use of the word, from which he was struck in the early 1980s, he returned to it in 1994 with the help of Wim Wenders with whom he made beyond the clouds “, winner of the FIPRESCI prize in Venice. He returns for one last time to his first love, the documentary, when for Istituto Luce he directs the emblematic “Michelangelo’s gaze” on the statue of Moses by Michelangelo Merisi in S. Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, which is presented as a special event at the 57 Cannes Film Festival. In the same year he still manages to direct “The dangerous thread of things” one of the three episodes of the film “Eros” while the other two are directed by great authors who, although foreign, have well understood his lesson: Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh . Presented at the Venice Film Festival, this will be his latest film. On the evening of July 30, 2007, in his home in Rome, in the Fleming district, he passed away peacefully, assisted by his wife Enrica. After a first marriage, Antonioni had long been romantically linked to the actress Monica Vitti, the protagonist of her films on incommunicability: “L’avventura” (1959), “La notte” (1960), “L’eclisse” (1962) ) and “Red Desert” (1964). Since 1986 he had married Enrica Fico.
THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Eros
Role: Film director
Year: 2004
Michelangelo’s gaze
Role: Film director
Year: 2004
Beyond the clouds
Role: Film director
Year: 1995
Noto, Almond trees, Vulcano, Stromboli, Carnival
Role: Film director
Year: 1993 Go to the Complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Drama: 53% Documentary: 26% Mystery: 5% Comedy: 4%
THE STATISTICS OF MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI ON COMINGSOON.IT
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RECENT ROLES INTERPRETED BY MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
| Movie | Role |
|---|---|
Self-portrait Auschwitz / The Eye is, so to speak, the biological evolution of a tear | Himself |
Eros | (“The Dangerous Thread of Things”) |
Michelangelo’s gaze | Himself |
Eros | (“The Dangerous Thread of Things”) |
12 directors for 12 cities | (“Rome”) |
Chambre 666 | Himself |
Zabriskie Point | (uncredited) |
The three faces | (“The audition”) |
The flower and the violence | (“The crime”) |
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