Michelangelo antonioni's personal experience.

Michelangelo antonioni was born in Ferrara, a historic city in emilia-romagna, northern Italy. 1935, after obtaining a degree in economics from the University of Bologna, he began to write for the local newspaper Il Corriere Padano in Ferrara and became a film reporter.

1940 antonioni moved to Rome to work for Film magazine. The magazine is the official fascist film publication, edited by benito mussolini's son vittorio. A few months later, antonioni was fired. After that, he entered Centro Experimental Ale di Cinematografia to study film technology.

Italian director. I was fascinated by architectural models before I was 20 years old, and then I was fascinated by drama. He tried to shoot a documentary in a mental hospital, which made his later works advocate inner realism, and also predicted that his later works would pay attention to the morbid and alienation of people's mental state. 1939- 1940 used to be the editor of the authoritative film magazine Film in Rome. After studying at the Rome Experimental Film Center for some time, I began to write plays. The first film

1942, he co-authored the script of Pilota RiTahlner with roberto rossellini, and served as an assistant director in the film I owe Foscari by Enrico Fulci Oni. 1943, antonioni went to France to assist Marcel Carné in filming Les Visiteurs du soir. Antonioni started shooting short films in the1940s. Gente del Po is a story about a poor fisherman in the Po River (antonioni worked in the Po River from 1943 to 1947). These short films adopt a neo-realistic style and study the lives of local residents in the form of semi-documentaries.

However, antonioni's first feature film "Chronicle of Love" (Cronaca di Unamor, translated as "Love Record, Love Story, Love Chronicle or Record of a Love", 1950) escaped the new realism by describing the middle class. He went on to create a series of films: Eventi (1953), which tells a series of stories about juvenile delinquency in different countries (France, Italy and Britain); Madame describes a young movie star and her depravity. Le Amiche (1955) describes middle-class women in Turin. Il Grido (also translated into Scream, Wanderer and Scream, 1957) returns to the working class, telling the story of a factory worker and his daughter. Every story is related to social alienation.

English movies

Antonioni then signed a contract with the producer [Carlo Ponti] so that MGM could release the next three films in English. First of all, the movie Blowup (also translated and enlarged, 1966) set in Britain has achieved unprecedented success. Although it involves such a challenging theme as "the impossibility of objective standards", the film is very successful and has a high box office. Of course, the obvious direct sex scenes in the film also contribute to the box office. The film stars David Hemmings and vanessa redgrave.

In the second English film Zabrisky Corner (also translated as Dune, Zabrisky Corner or Death Point, 1970), antonioni first set the background in the United States. Although the soundtrack of this film included artists who were very popular at that time, such as Pink Floyd (who wrote new songs for this film), Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, it was not as popular as previous works. The film described the movement against traditional culture, but it was severely criticized because of the monotonous performance of novice actors.

Professione: reporter, the third English film starring Jack Nicholson, has been well received by film critics, but its box office performance is still weak. This film has not been circulated in the market for many years, but it was replayed in some theaters in June 5438 +2005 10, and then released on DVD.

Works in his later years

1980, antonioni filmed "Il Mistero di Oberwald", which was an experiment of color electronic processing. First, it was shot with a TV camera (using the format of 625 lines and 50 fields), and then it was converted into film, which was different from the general method of shooting directly with film negatives. This is also the first video to shoot a feature film with a TV camera, which can be said to be the pioneer of digital movies. The film, starring monica vitti, an actress who often collaborates with antonioni, is adapted from Jean Cocqueteaux's story "L'aigle à deux têtes" (Jean Cocteaux made the film "Death of Two Eagles" in 1948).

The film A Woman's Identity (1982) was shot in Italy, and the theme once again dealt with the same topic in the trilogy series.

1985, antonioni suffered a stroke, resulting in paralysis and inability to speak. However, he continued to make films, including Al Di Lader Nouvel, co-produced with wim Wenders (also translated as Feeling and Desire on the Cloud, 1995), and adapted his four short stories into films. Wenders is an alternate director, responsible for shooting scenes in four films. Together with Cyclo, the film won the FIPRESCI Award for film critics at Venice Film Festival.

In the same year, he won the American Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Jack Nicholson gave it to him. A few months later, the little golden statuette was stolen by thieves and later returned. Prior to this, he was nominated for best director and best screenwriter for Spring.

Internationally renowned

In the movie Le Amiche, antonioni tried a new original style: he gave up the traditional narrative technique, used a series of seemingly unrelated events and used a lot of long shots.

Such a slow-paced style can easily make people feel depressed and lose the motivation to move forward. Antonioni's return to this style in his work L'Avventura (also translated as Adventure or Lovelorn, 1960) also made him famous internationally for the first time. Although the film was well received at Cannes Film Festival, it is quite popular in art theaters all over the world. 1962, British sight &; Sound) magazine listed Love as the second of the top ten movies in film history.

Antonioni went on to shoot Night (La Notte, 196 1 year) and Eclipse (L'Eclisse, also translated Flowers for the Sea, 1962). Because these three films are similar in style and all discuss the alienation of human beings in the modern world, they are usually called "Alienation (Love) Trilogy". It depicts that modern people are depressed and lonely because of lack of effective communication, and turn to seek love to pin their hearts. However, this is often not gratifying. But frustrated by the invisible wall of isolation, falling into despair and deeper loneliness.

His first color film, Il Deserto rosso (1964), dealt with similar problems, so this film is sometimes regarded as the fourth film.

65438-0940 started shooting various short films and documentaries. /kloc-in 0/950, he found the backstage boss and began to shoot the novel Love Story, which deviated from the popular neo-realism at that time and developed an "anti-film" tendency visually, that is, an "inner film". "Eclipse" and "Magnification" won special awards from the jury of Cannes Film Festival; Red Desert won the Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival.