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July 31, 2007
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1912-2007: "Things and people the way they ought to be"
Antonioni on transforming a "natural" space he's chosen to shoot in: "You are describing a tempttion I have every time I go anywhere, to an office or to a private home. Sometimes it even arises in my own house. Someone comes to see me and suddenly, during the conversation, I feel uneasy; it is because I feel that we are badly placed in the room, we are badly seated.
He is on a sofa, I am next to him, while I ought to be seated opposite him. And instead of a wall with a picture on it behind the back of the man I am speaking to, I should like to have a window, perhaps even so that I could distract myself by looking out. When I shoot a film, that is all I am doing. I arrange things and people the way they ought to be." [From L'Express, September 8, 1960.] Links: Some thoughts on Zabriskie Point; "I am not God, but...": on the making of Blow-up; Robert Koehler on the reissue of The Passenger, "that cinematic Rip Van Winkle... 30 years after its controversial premiere in 1975, [it's an] anti-adventure, as slippery as an eel."
Jack talks up his love for Michelangelo.
Posted by Ray Pride at July 31, 2007 10:22 AM
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