Recently Dead

Recently we've come to realize that two of our favorite films, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence and Michelangelo Antonioni's L'clisse, with their gorgeously stark compositions, cryptic dialogue, and puzzling open-ended denouements, could easily serve as templates for lampooning foreign art films, and probably do. In fact, Hitchcock once said, "It’s easy to make a pretentious film. Pop in quite unnecessary images to baffle people. Like that Italian chap, Antonioni.” Antonioni died yesterday at age 94, the same day as Bergman. Jean-Luc Godard is still alive. In a fitting blogger tribute to Antonioni, we'll let his work speak for him and post the last 10 minutes of 1962's L'eclisse, with Monica Vitti, and the fashion-shoot sequence from his 1966 English-language film Blow Up, with David Hemmings. Great cinema. (Read)

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