“Few directors have so radically transformed our perception of the possibilities of film as has Michelangelo Antonioni. Just as there is painting before and after Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, there is cinema before and after L’avventura. Indeed Antonioni’s films constitute a monument of modernism. Their evocation of postwar alienation and anomie, their formal innovation and figurative beauty, created one of the most influential and inexhaustible canons in the history of cinema.”
-James Quandt
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career. He is one of three directors to have won the Palme d’Or (Cannes Film Festival), the Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival) and the Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival), and the only director to have won these three and the Golden Leopard (Locarno International Film Festival). Michelangelo Antonioni received an honorary Academy Award in 1995.
Saturday, April 28, 2018
PROGRAM
- L’avventura (1960) 145 min | 11:00am
- L’eclisse (1962) 125 min | 2:00pm
- Red Desert (1964) 116 min | 4:30pm
- Blow-Up (1966) 110 min | 4:30pm
- Party | 8:30pm-10:00pm
- The Passenger (1975) 126 min | 10:00pm-12:00am
Saturday, April 28, 2018
The Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco
The series is presented by Istituto Luce Cinecittà in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco, under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism (MIBACT). The program is organized by Cinema Italia SF.
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