Bruce Davidson / Zabriskie Point

Bruce Davidson Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni during the making of "Zabriskie Point." California. USA. 1968. © Bruce Davidson | Magnum Photos

Magnum on Set: Zabriskie Point

Bruce Davidson photographed the making of Michelangelo Antonioni’s surreal investigation into 1960s American counterculture, shot in the Californian desert

Magnum photographers have, over more than seven decades, captured pivotal moments in popular culture as much as historic events and societal sea changes. Working behind the scenes on sets of many classic films, they have captured not only iconic stars at various stages of their careers, but also documented the changing nature of cinema and film production. Sets, equipment, and special effects that once seemed futuristic are, with the passing of time rendered disarmingly romantic.

Michelangelo Antonioni / The Playboy Interview

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MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI: THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1967)

by Curtis Pepper

As the creator of such meticulously crafted and psychologically penetrating films as L‘Avventura, Red Desert and Blow-Up, 55-year-old Michelangelo Antonioni has earned a lofty but controversial niche among cinematic chroniclers of the problems that beset modern man. With an intellectual’s detachment and a prophet’s conviction, he has explored the alienation of man in a depersonalized world the fragility and ambivalence of his emotions and, above all, the impermanence of his love. Gaunt as a Giacometti sculpture, Antonioni himself presents a mask to the world. He claims to have little interest in material rewards, still less in critical acclaim or abuse; but he is no stranger to affluence—nor to the world of spiritually bankrupt overprivilege inhabited by his lonely characters.

Blow-Up: Behind the Most Famous Film on Photography

Zoom in on Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 cult classic

By Eugene Reznik

24 de febrero de 2015

David Hemmings und Veruschka von Lehndorff in Blow-Up (Regie: Michelangelo Antonioni), 1966 by Tazio SecchiaroliNeue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH/Turner Entertainment Co. - A Warner Bros Entertainment Company—Courtesy Philippe Garne

Posters / Michelangelo Antonioni / Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni

BLOW-UP

Michelangelo Antonioni / La notte

LA NOTTE

by Michelangelo Antonioni

L'esistenza in la notte di Antonioni
La notte di Michelangelo Antonioni

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti
NEW RESTORATION

(1961) “I no longer have ideas. Only memories.” A day and a night in the life of a troubled marriage, set against Milan’s gleaming modern buildings, its gone-to-seed older quarters, and a sleek modern estate, all shot in razor-sharp b&w crispness by the great Gianni di Venanzo. Writer Marcello Mastroianni and his wife Jeanne Moreau visit a dying friend; drop by a night club with an amazing Black contortionist dancer; then wind up at an all-night party at a suburban villa, where Mastroianni flirts with seeming playgirl Monica Vitti, while Moreau tries for a sports car affair of her own, until a tormented dawn encounter at a deserted golf course. Perhaps Antonioni’s most compassionate examination of the emptiness of the rich and the difficulties of modern relationships (minority naysayer Pauline Kael’s review was headlined “The Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties”); while its tour-de-force, Moreau’s walk through the streets of Milan, “has its place in any film anthology” (Mira Liehm). DCP Restoration. Approx. 122 mins.