DATES
TUE 02.03.2021 – 9:30-13:30 – Introduction
TUE 23.03.2021 – 9:30-13:30 – Meeting
THU 22.04.2021 – 9:30-13:30 – Meeting
THU 06.05.2021 – 9:30-13:30 – Meeting
THU 27.05.2021 – 9:30-13:30 – Meeting
THU 17.06.2021 – 9:30-13:30 – Presentation
MOVIES – choose cc for subtitles – for all available movies click here
☆ L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
143min, Italian version, English subtitles
A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean. When they are about to leave the island, they find Anna, the main character up to this point, has gone missing. Sandro, Anna's boyfriend, and Claudia, Anna's friend, try without success to find her. While looking for the missing friend, Claudia and Sandro develop an attraction for each other. When they get back to land, they continue the search with no success. Sandro and Claudia proceed to become lovers, and all but forget about the missing Anna.
More: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/99-l-avventura-a-present-absence
Find the wonderful German discription for this film by Claudia Lenssen here.
☆ La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)
138min, Italian version, English subtitles
In Milan, after visiting dear friend Tommaso Garani that is terminal in a hospital, the writer Giovanni Pontano goes to a party for the release of his last book, and his wife Lidia Pontano visits the place where she lived many years ago. In the night, they go to a night-club, and later to a party in the mansion of the tycoon Mr. Gherardini. Along the night, Giovanni flirts with Valentina Gherardini, the daughter of the host, and then he receives a proposal to work for him in the area of communication and write the history of his company. Meanwhile, Lidia flirts with the playboy Roberto.
More: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2938-la-notte-modern-love
Find the wonderful German discription for this film by Claudia Lenssen here.
☆ L‘Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
126min, Italian version, English and German subtitles
In the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets the broker Piero on a day of crash. The materialist Piero and the absent Vittoria begin a monosyllabic relationship.
More: www.criterion.com/current/posts/359-l-eclisse-a-vigilance-of-desire
Find the wonderful German discription for this film by Claudia Lenssen here.
☆ Il Deserto Rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
117min, Italian version, English subtitles
A powerful drama about alienation of the individual and psychological anxiety in the over-industrialized modern world. Set against the bleak landscape of an industrial zone in Italy, an emotionally disturbed woman strives to find solace and peace in an environment that has become intolerant of human emotion. Antonioni's amazing use of color only adds to the impression of an artificial world that lacks any true color. It is the use of color in this film that impressed Fellini enough to start using color in his own films. Much can be also be said about Carlo Savina's experimental musical score.
More: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1491-red-desert-in-this-world
Find the wonderful German discription for this film by Claudia Lenssen here.
☆ Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni,1966)
172min, English Version
A successful photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Then he meets a mysterious beauty, and also notices something frightfully suspicious on one of his photographs of her taken in a park. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
More: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4478-blow-up-in-the-details
Find the wonderful German discription for this film by Claudia Lenssen here.
☆ Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)
169min, English Version
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert and dropout Mark who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot...
Find the wonderful German discription for this film by Claudia Lenssen here.
☆ Professione Reporter (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
125min, English Version
A journalist researching a documentary in the Sahara Desert meets a gunrunner who dies suddenly. When the journalist notices that they have a similar appearance, he assumes the recently deceased's identity and accepts the consequences that it brings.
Find the wonderful German discription for this film by Claudia Lenssen here.
EXCERPTS and ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
☆ Excerpt from North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
☆ Excerpt from Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)
☆ Excerpt from Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
☆ Excerpt from Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
☆ Excerpt from My Voyage To Italy (Martin Scorsese, 1999)
☆ Excerpt from The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962)
☆ Excerpt from Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
☆ Excerpt from Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969)
☆ Excerpt from Phoenix Tapes (Giradet, Müller, 1999)
☆ Michelangelo Antonioni on Il Deserto Rosso (1964)
☆ Interview with Monica Vitti
☆ Dear Antonioni – from a letter by Roland Barthes (Gianni Massironi, 1997), 55min
☆ Phoenix Tapes (Giradet, Müller, 1999), info
☆ The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (Mark Rappaport, 2014)
☆ Mirror Mechanics (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 2005)
☆ Borgate (Lotte Schreiber, 2008), info
☆ A Personal Journey Through American Movies - Part 1 & 2 (Martin Scorsese, 1995), 150min
☆ A Personal Journey Through American Movies - Part 3 (Martin Scorsese, 1995), 73min
☆ My Voyage To Italy - Part 1 (Martin Scorsese, 1999)
☆ My Voyage To Italy - Part 2 (Martin Scorsese, 1999)
☆ My Voyage To Italy - Part 3 (Martin Scorsese, 1999)
☆ Easy Riders – Raging Bulls (Kenneth Bowser, 2003)
☆ Hitchcock – Truffaut (Kent Jones, 2015)
TEXT, LITERATURE and LINKS
⇒ For all available e-books click here
⇒ An ever growing collection of miscellaneous text
⇒ Roland Barthes. Dear Antonioni... , 1980
⇒ Julio Cortázar. Blow-Up and Other Stories. New York: Macmillan, 1971
⇒ Martin Schaub. Sisyphus. In: Jansen, Peter W. and Schütte, Wolfram (Eds.) Michelangelo Antonioni. Reihe Film Band 31. Munich, Vienna: Hanser Verlag, 1987.