Directors who worked at Cinecitta include Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, and Michelangelo Antonioni.

Starring Alberto Sordi in the title role, the film is a revised version of a treatment first written by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1949 and based on the fotoromanzi, the photographed cartoon strip romances popular in Italy at the time.

In competition at Cannes alongside Antonioni ’ s L ’ Avventura, the film won the Palme d ' Or awarded by presiding juror Georges Simenon.

Best known for his " trilogy on modernity and its discontents "— L ' Avventura ( 1960 ), La Notte ( 1961 ), and Eclipse ( 1962 )— Antonioni " redefined the concept of narrative cinema " and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large.

" In a speech at Cannes about L ' Avventura, Antonioni said that in the modern age of reason and science, mankind still lives by " a rigid and stereotyped morality which all of us recognize as such and yet sustain out of cowardice and sheer laziness ".

I met Antonioni three years ago in Taormina at a film festival.

An important point to note is that out of Scorsese's selection of Italian films from a select group of directors ( Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni ) Rossellini's films form at least half of the films discussed and analyzed, highlighting Rossellini's monumental role in Italian and world cinema.

" Antonioni also considered using The Velvet Underground ( signed at the time to a division of MGM Records ) in the nightclub scene, but, according to guitarist Sterling Morrison, " the expense of bringing the whole entourage to England proved too much for him ".

Photographer Jon Cowan leased his studio at 39 Princes Place to Antonioni for much of the interior and exterior filming, and Cowan's own photographic murals are featured in the film.

Wurlitzer was working on a script with Michelangelo Antonioni at the time of Antonioni's death.

He then won a scholarship allowing him to study film in Italy at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.

She sang for the videoclip " Fotoromanza " ( directed by Michelangelo Antonioni ), won several musical awards and started a European tour, including a participation at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Zabriskie Point is a 1970 film by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, widely noted at the time for its setting in the late 1960s counterculture of the United States.

Roger Waters states in Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii that while Antonioni loved the song he said it made him " feel sad.

The series chronicles the transatlantic romance between Edie Miller ( Rashida Jones ), who is from New York City and Michael Antonioni ( Stephen Moyer ), who is from London.

In 1940, Antonioni moved to Rome, where he worked for Cinema, the official Fascist film magazine edited by Vittorio Mussolini.

Antonioni died aged 94 on July 30, 2007 in Rome, the same day that another renowned film director, Ingmar Bergman, also died.

" It was the only film Antonioni ever directed in the United States, where in 1994 he was given the Honorary Academy Award " in recognition of his place as one of the cinema's master visual stylists.

* The brief scene in black-and-white of Spike and Drusilla in an Italian jazz club resembles the style of Italian modernist films from the early 1960s by the likes of Fellini and Antonioni.

The Passenger, a film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, includes film footage of a firing squad execution.

In 1985, Antonioni suffered a stroke, which left him partly paralyzed and unable to speak.

I introduced myself and told him that I adored his movies, his contributions to film, because he was the first guy who really started making films about the reality of the vacuity between people, the difficulty in traversing this space between lovers in modern day ... and he never gives you an answer, Antonioni – that's the beautiful thing.

Weller is a fan of Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, who directed him in Beyond the Clouds.

An eclectic group of artists, filmmakers and activists protested, to little avail, on behalf of Parajanov, among them, Yves Saint Laurent, Françoise Sagan, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Mikhail Vartanov ).

They champion the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Jean Rollin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean Vigo, Amos Poe, Jean Epstein and Nicholas Ray among others, as well as Bela Tarr's film Satantango and Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary.

* A scene in Professione: reporter, a film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, was filmed on the roof of the building.

* N. U. ( film ), 1948 documentary film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

* September 29 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director ( d. 2007 )

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007 ) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer.

In Le Amiche ( 1955 ), Antonioni experimented with a radical new style: instead of a conventional narrative, he presented a series of apparently disconnected events, and he used long takes as part of his film making style.

The documentary had its first showing in China on November 25, 2004 in Beijing with a film festival hosted by the Beijing Film Academy to honor the works of Michelangelo Antonioni.

In 1980, Antonioni made Il mistero di Oberwald ( The Mystery of Oberwald ), an experiment in the electronic treatment of color, recorded in video and then translated to film, featuring Monica Vitti once more.

The U. S. DVD release of the film includes another 2004 short film by Antonioni, Lo sguardo di Michelangelo ( The Gaze of Michelangelo ).

" Antonioni is also noted for exploiting colour as a significant expressive element of his cinematic style, especially in Il deserto rosso, his first colour film.

That year, she was part of an ensemble of international actors in the French film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders, Beyond the Clouds.

Ferrara is the birthplace and childhood home of the well-known Italian film director, Michelangelo Antonioni.

The film Blowup ( 1966 ), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, depicts the life of a London fashion photographer played by David Hemmings and is largely based on Bailey.

Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian film director, also claimed to be influenced by De Chirico.

He is noted for his role as the photographer in the drama mystery-thriller film Blowup ( 1966 ), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Once there, influences as various as drama teacher Wilford Leach, the Maysles brothers, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock impressed upon De Palma the many styles and themes that would shape his own cinema in the coming decades.

Italy has produced many important cinematography auteurs, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Lucio Fulci, Mario Monicelli, Marco Ferreri, Elio Petri, Ermanno Olmi, Umberto Lenzi, Lina Wertmüller, and Luchino Visconti.

Producer Carlo Ponti commissioned Fellini and Tullio Pinelli to write the script but Antonioni rejected the story they developed.

" He has also cited filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major influence on his career.

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

Michelangelo Antonioni filmed his 1964 movie Red Desert ( Deserto Rosso ) within the industrialised areas of the Pialassa valley within the city limits.

Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize ( 1960, 1962 ), Palme d ' Or ( 1966 ), and 35th Anniversary Prize ( 1982 ); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion ( 1955 ), Golden Lion ( 1964 ), FIPRESCI Prize ( 1964, 1995 ), and Pietro Bianchi Award ( 1998 ); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times ; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995.

Antonioni was born into a prosperous family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy.

He was the son of Elisabetta ( née Roncagli ) and Ismaele Antonioni.

While still a child, Antonioni was fond of drawing and music.

However, Antonioni was fired a few months afterward.

In 1942, Antonioni co-wrote Un pilota ritorna with Roberto Rossellini and worked as assistant director on Enrico Fulchignoni's I due Foscari.