It has since gained a cult following for its numerous in-jokes skewering pompous directors — including Cecil B. de Mille, John Huston, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and De Sica himself — vain film stars, their starstruck audiences, and pretentious film critics.

The distributor is credited with introducing numerous films, now considered masterpieces of world cinema, to American audiences, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Yasujirō Ozu and many other well-regarded directors.

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.

Following prolonged publicity and controversy in North America throughout its production, Zabriskie Point was released in February 1970, almost four years after Antonioni began pre-production and over a year and a half after shooting began.

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

Over the course of his career, Delon has worked with many well-known directors, including Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni and Louis Malle.

Throughout his career, Rabal worked in France, Italy and Mexico with directors such as Gillo Pontecorvo, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Valerio Zurlini, Jacques Rivette and Alberto Lattuada.

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.

Ingmar Bergman stated in 2002 that he considered some of Antonioni's films, including Blowup and La notte, masterpieces for their detached and dreamlike quality, but found the other films boring and noted that he had never understood why Antonioni was held in such esteem.

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

" 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 ".

* Won: Grand Prix ( 1967 Cannes Film Festival ) – Michelangelo Antonioni

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.

Film director Akira Kurosawa considered Antonioni one of the most interesting filmmakers.

The Time Out Film Guide noted that some of the film's sketches are " dross, but the parodies of Antonioni ( all angst and alienation of a wife who can achieve orgasm only in public places ) and of TV panel games (' What's My Perversion?

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.

Antonioni returned to their use in L ' avventura ( 1960 ), which became his first international success.

* L ' Avventura ( The Adventure ), a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

* L ' avventura ( 1960 ), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

* Eclipse ( 1962 film ), by Michelangelo Antonioni

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni helped revolutionize filmmaking, with such films as La Notte ( 1961 ), a complex examination of a failed marriage that dealt with issues such as anomie and sterility ; Eclipse ( 1962 ), about a young woman who is unable to form a solid relationship with her boyfriend because of his materialistic nature ; Red Desert ( 1964 ), his first color film, which deals with the need to adapt to the modern world ; and Blowup ( 1966 ), his first English-language film, which examines issues of perception and reality as it follows a young photographer's attempt to discover whether he had photographed a murder.

* L ' eclisse ( 1962 ), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

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

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.

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 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.

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

In the tenth episode of the third series of the BBC program, Monarch of the Glen ( 2000 – 2005 ), Molly MacDonald ( Susan Hampshire ) clarifies for her husband, Hector ( Richard Briers ), that it was Antonioni who wanted her for Blowup when she was a London model in the 1960s.

These include: the Michelangelo Antonioni film Blowup ( 1966 ), Darling ( 1965 ), The Knack … and How to Get It ( 1965 ), Alfie ( 1966 ), Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ( 1966 ), Georgy Girl ( 1966 ), Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ), Casino Royale ( 1967 ), Smashing Time ( 1967 ), Bedazzled ( 1967 ), Up the Junction ( 1968 ), if .... ( 1968 ) and Performance ( 1970 )

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

The movie was partly influenced by Michelangelo Antonioni ’ s Blowup ( 1966 ).

Blowup, or Blow-Up, is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he may have witnessed a murder and unwittingly taken photographs of the killing.

He subsequently produced three notable films with Michelangelo Antonioni, Blowup in 1966, Zabriskie Point in 1970 and The Passenger in 1974.

* Blowup, a 1966 film by Michelangelo Antonioni

While in the United States for the 1966 premiere of his film Blowup, which had been a surprising box office hit, Antonioni saw a short newspaper article about a young man who had stolen an airplane and was killed when he tried to return it in Phoenix, Arizona.

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

Red Desert () is a 1964 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti with Richard Harris.

" 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.

* Waldman, A. D., Atwater, L. E., & Antonioni, D. ( 1998 ).

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

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.

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

Zabriskie Point is also the name of a 1970 movie by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni ; its soundtrack features music by British band Pink Floyd and Jerry Garcia.

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

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

# Why Do Some Women Have Trouble Reaching an Orgasm? Allen's homage to Italian film-making in general and Casanova 70, Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini in particular, about a woman ( Louise Lasser ) who can only reach orgasm in public.

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.

Shepard, Antonioni, Italian filmmaker Franco Rossetti, screenwriter Tonino Guerra and Clare Peploe ( wife of Bernardo Bertolucci ) worked on the screenplay.

During filming Antonioni was quoted as criticizing the U. S. film industry for financially wasteful production practices, which he found " almost immoral " and compared to the more thrifty approach of Italian studios.

Monica Vitti ( born 3 November 1931 ) is an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early 1960s.

* 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.