Michelangelo AntonioniFilmography

Born:: September 29, 1912 in Ferrara, Italy
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Editor, Screenwriter
Biography:: Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni redefined the concept of narrative cinema, challenging the accepted notions at the heart of storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large; his films -- a seminal body of enigmatic and intricate mood pieces -- rejected action in favor of...Read More

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Antonioni Su Antonioni

Actors: Michelangelo Antonioni

Synopsis: Michelangelo Antonioni was among the boldest and most innovative filmmakers to rise to fame in Europe during the 1960's. Antonioni abandoned the accepted constraints of narrative cinema and used images to tell stories in new and compelling ways, placing his emphasis on visuals rather than Read More

2008
Eros

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tin Fung, Robert Downey, Jr., Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Three of the world's most gifted filmmakers offer their own unique perspectives on love and lust in this omnibus film. The initial episode, "The Hand," was directed by Wong Kar-Wai, and tells the story of Zhang (Chang Chen), a young, virginal dressmaker's assistant who finds it difficult to Read More

4/8/05
Michelangelo Eye to Eye

Crew: Director

Actors: Michelangelo Antonioni

2004
Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
Beyond the Clouds

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: John Malkovich, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ines Sastre, Sophie Marceau, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi Stuart Read More

1995
Room 666

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Synopsis: In this unusual documentary based on a series of identical questions addressed to world-famous directors such as Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg, and Jean-Luc Godard, director Wim Wenders placed each of his colleagues one-by-one in a single room, gave them one reel (11 minutes) of time to look Read More

1984
Identificazione di Una Donna

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel, Veronica Lazar

Synopsis: A divorced middle-aged Italian film director (Tomas Millian) is seeking meaning and love in both his life and his film. He becomes involved with an aristocratic woman, but trouble ensues when he begins to receive anonymous threats demanding that he abandon the relationship. When the woman Read More

10/21/82
Il Mistero di Oberwald

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Vitti, Franco Branciaroli, Paolo Bonacelli, Luigi Diberti

Synopsis: One of director Michelangelo Antonioni's more obscure works from the 1980s, this psychological period piece reunites the filmmaker with one of his favorite performers, Monica Vitti. Shot on video and based upon the play The Eagle Has Two Heads (Jean Cocteau made his own film version of the work in Read More

9/3/81
The Passenger

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry

Synopsis: The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North Africa. When he stumbles across the body of a dead Read More

2/28/75
Chung Kuo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In 1970, Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni was asked to return to his roots as a documentarian for this profile of China, fully sanctioned by the government of the People's Republic. In a detached, distant style, the director and his crew pick up snatches of life in and around Bejing Read More

1972
Zabriskie Point

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor

Synopsis: Zabriskie Point, director Michelangelo Antonioni's only American film, is an unusual, visually stunning examination of youthful rebellion against the Establishment. The film, initially presented in quasi-documentary style, presents a group of college activists discussing key issues of their Read More

1970
Blow-Up

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Peter Bowles, John Castle

Synopsis: Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language production was also his only box office hit, widely considered one of the seminal films of the 1960s. Thomas (David Hemmings) is a nihilistic, wealthy fashion photographer in mod "Swinging London." Filled with ennui, bored with his Read More

1966
I Tre Volti

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, Piero Tosi, Ralph Serpe

Synopsis: Michelangelo Antonioni served as just one of three directors on this Dino de Laurentiis production that also corralled Franco Indovina (Antonioni's assistant on three films) and Mauro Bolognini for three segments that all adhered to the titular theme, The Three Faces of a Woman: Il Provino, Latin Read More

2/12/65
Red Desert

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir

Synopsis: Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) once more combines the considerable talents of director Michelangelo Antonioni and star Monica Vitti. Cast as Giuliana, an unhappy wife, Vitti suffers from an unnamed form of depression and malaise. Her quicksilver emotional shifts disturb everyone around her, but Read More

10/29/64
L'eclisse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Lilla Brignone, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: In this challenging drama by Michelangelo Antonioni, his characteristic long, significant periods of silence punctuate the message that people just cannot seem to communicate with each other. Capping off Antonioni's previous two films (L'avventura and La Notte) in much the same style, this tale Read More

4/12/62
La Notte

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Maria Pia Luzi, Rosy Mazzacurati

Synopsis: La Notte is another of Michelangelo Antonioni's cinematic interrupted journeys. Just as no one solved the central mystery in Antonioni's L'Avventura, neither does anyone truly enjoy the literary party that is La Notte's centerpiece. The party is being thrown to celebrate the publication of Read More

1/24/61
L'Avventura

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci

Synopsis: This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and established its director, Michelangelo Antonioni, as a major international talent. The plot concerns a yachting trip by a small group of jaded socialites, including Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), an aging Read More

6/29/60
Il Grido

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray, Betsy Blair

Synopsis: The grim, drab life of a man who labors in a Po Valley sugar refinery in northern Italy provides the center of this black-and-white drama from Michelangelo Antonioni. The worker lives with a married woman and their young daughter. One day, the woman learns that her legal spouse died. The refinery Read More

6/22/57
Le Amiche

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yvonne Furneaux, Ettore Manni, Valentina Cortese, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Madeleine Fischer

Synopsis: Roman couturier Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) leaves the big city to work at a boutique in Turin. She moves into a hotel and makes several new friends, but is soon drawn into their extremely unpleasant lives. Clelia enters a doomed relationship with a poor architect's assistant (Ettore Manni) Read More

11/18/55
I Vinti

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Director Michelangelo Antonioni's unique triptych film features three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome, and another in London. All of the perpetrators are affluent youths, each killing for his own dubious motive. In the France segment, a group of adolescents kill for money, even Read More

10/21/53
La Signora Senza Camelie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lucia Bosé, Gino Cervi, Ivan Desny, Alain Cuny

Synopsis: Signora Senza Camelie (Lady without Camelias or Camille without Camelias) was the third feature-length directorial effort by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is possible that the director invested a great deal of himself in the story's central character, a film producer played by Gino Cervi. Turning Read More

2/26/53
L'Amore in Città

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Seven top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City). The film is divided into six separate episodes; the first of these, "Paid Love", is a straightforward study of prosititution written and directed by Carlo Lizzani. In the second, Michelangelo Antonioni Read More

1953
The White Sheik

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Brunella Bovo, Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina, Lilia Landi

Synopsis: The White Sheik (Lo Sceicco Bianco), Fellini's first solo flight as director, is a gentle lampoon of the idolatry heaped upon movie stars. An impressionable young bride, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) accompanies her husband Ivan (Leopoldo Trieste) on a dull honeymoon, full of meetings with family members Read More

9/20/52
Cronaca di un Amore

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Michelangelo Antonioni's first narrative feature is a stark, minimal interpersonal drama that would establish many of the themes and techniques that would recur in his work for the rest of his career. Story of a Love Affair centers on the dynamic between Guido (Massimo Girotti) and Paola (Lucia Bosé Read More

10/11/50
La Funivia Del Faloria

Crew: Director

1950
L'Amorosa Menzogna

Crew: Director

1949
Superstizione

Crew: Director

1949
Nettezza Urbana

Crew: Director

1948
Un Pilota Ritorna

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A Fascist pilot, Lt. Gino Rossati (Massimo Girotti), is flying a bombing run from Italy to Greece in the early spring of 1941. He is shot down by British aircraft and becomes a prisoner of war, first of the British and later the Greeks. In one of the prison camps, he falls in love with Anna Read More

1942