The Italian Culture Institute in New York has launched a series of events to celebrate the 100th-year anniversary of the great Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni ’s birth.
The event has been organised in collaboration with the Museum of Moving Image, the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò NYU, the Queens College City University of New York and Cinecittà Luce.
Born on the 29th of September 1912 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Antonioni was not only a director but also a screenwriter, editor, writer and painter. He received international recognition for many of his films, including Le Amiche (1955), L’avventura (1960) and L’eclisse (1962), often referred to as a trilogy due to their stylistic and thematic similarities.
Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, Antonioni directed three English-language movies released by MGM: Blowup (1966) staring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave; Zabriskie Point (1970), set to a soundtrack including songs by famous musicians such as Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones; and The Passenger (1975), starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.
In 1994, he was presented with an Honorary Academy Award “in recognition of his place as one of the cinema's master visual stylists”.
On the 29th of March at 5:30pm, the Italian Cultural Institute will screen Le Amiche with English subtitles. On the 8th and 9th of April, the Museum of Moving Image will project a number of Antonioni’s documentaries. In addition, the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò at NYU will hold a symposium, the date of which has not yet been announced.
For further information visit the Italian Culture Institute in New York website.
Le Amiche
L’Avventura
L’Ecclisse
