Blow-up dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Blow-up dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
News Update: On Monday, we lost two, not one, great film directors. Renown Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni, died in Rome at age 94 (Ingmar Bergman died in Sweden at age 89).
Indulge your Swinging London mod fantasies and check out Antonioni's Blow-up.
via NYT
Persona dir. Ingmar Bergman
Yesterday we lost one of my favorite directors, Ingmar Bergman. My very first Bergman experience was watching Persona in high school and it had a profound effect on the development of my personal philosophy. He joined the ranks of the other 'greats' who have enormously influenced me: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Jung, Freud, Camus and Sartre. Some of my other favorite directors are Fellini, Godard and David Lynch, but Bergman alone has stimulated me in a philosophical way, transforming my vision of self and other. Another film I love is Fanny and Alexander, perhaps because like Bergman, I was raised by a strict Protestant minister. Fanny and Alexander is as much my poeticized autobiography as it was his.
via New York Times
