TV Guide: Michelangelo Antonioni

Video: Eros

Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: A three-part anthology film about love, eroticism and sexuality from three directors: Steven Soderbergh, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Wong Kar Wai.

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Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Climates is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner Distant. Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni with its poetic use of landscape and the incisive, exquisitely visual rendering of loneliness, loss and the often-elusive nature of happiness. During a sweltering summer vacation on the Aegean coast, the relationship between middle-aged professor Isa (played by Ceylan himself) and his younger, television producer girlfriend Bahar (the luminous Ebru Ceylan, Ceylan's real-life wife) brutally implodes. Back in Istanbul that fall, Isa rekindles a torrid affair with a previous lover. But when he learns that Bahar has left the city for a job in the snowy East, he follows her there to win her back. Boasting subtly powerful performances, heart-stoppingly stunning cinematography (Ceylan's first work in high definition) and densely textured sou

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Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Eros is a three-part anthology film about eroticism and desire by a trio of world cinema's outstanding directors, Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni. The film also serves as an homage by two younger directors, Wong and Soderbergh, to Antonioni who has informed and inspired their work. The Italian master has extensively examined this terrain in such classics as "L'Avventura," "Blowup" and "The Passenger". The Hand: A richly textured and achingly emotional erotic tale about a young tailor's (Chang Chen) long-time unrequited love for a beautiful Hong Kong courtesan (Gong Li). Directed by Wong Kar-Wai. Equilibrium: A wry and perverse comedy about an advertising executive (Robert Downey, Jr.) who is under enormous pressure at work. During visits to his psychiatrist (Alan Arkin), they delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. The Dangerous Thread of Things: The story of a m nage-

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TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo in Michelangelo Antonioni's portrait of "Swinging London" Blow-Up (1966) starring Vanessa Redgrave.

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AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North Africa. When he stumbles across the body of a dead man, Locke, long desirous of starting life over again, assumes the corpse's identity. He soon discovers that the man he's pretending to be is involved in gun running on behalf of a terrorist group. Making the acquaintance of a mysterious woman (Maria Schneider), he finds a kindred spirit -- a woman as "lost" as he. - Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide