Martin Scorsese on Michelangelo Antonioni
Martin Scorsese on Michelangelo Antonioni in "The Man Who Set Film Free" in the New York Times:
"Nineteen sixty-one … a long time ago. Almost 50 years. But the sensation of seeing L’Avventura for the first time is still with me, as if it had been yesterday.
"Where did I see it? Was it at the Art Theater on Eighth Street? Or was it the Beekman? I don’t remember, but I do remember the charge that ran through me the first time I heard that opening musical theme — ominous, staccato, plucked out on strings, so simple, so stark, like the horns that announce the next tercio during a bullfight. And then, the movie. A Mediterranean cruise, bright sunshine, in black and white widescreen images unlike anything I’d ever seen - so precisely composed, accentuating and expressing … what? A very strange type of discomfort. The characters were rich, beautiful in one way but, you might say, spiritually ugly. Who were they to me? Who would I be to them?"
Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni NEW YORK TIMES Article
Defending Bergman and Antonioni
UCLA’s International Preservation 2007 Series
Michelangelo Antonioni at LACMA
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L’Avventura is one of the greatest films ever made. Period. End of discussion.