The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema

ISBN: 0226021149

Author: Antonioni, Michelangelo

Condition: Used

A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality. Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of Blow-Up and LAvventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision.Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the directors unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera.The Architecture of Vision provides a filmmakers absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonionis comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book.-Publishers Weekly[Antonionis] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness.-Film QuarterlyThis valuable resource offers entrée to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances.-Library Journal