(love this poster design)

So, in case you are wondering, I am still sadden by the passing of the great Michelangelo Antonioni and I have been watching a handful of his films recently. Yesterday was Blow-Up and L'Avventura. I will have to honest. Don't get me wrong I love black and white films. love them. Something like Mike Nichol's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I couldn't even picture in color. And while I love his trilogy of L'Avventura, La Notte, and L'Eclisse, you some how wonder how they would look in color. Antonioni was similar to someone like Seijun Suzuki, in the sense that his knack for color created a whole other character to his films and made my love for them even stronger. Look at Antonioni's brilliant Il Deserto rosso (Red Desert). The colors are amazing. He actually made his crew paint most things over to make the colors more vibrant. And when I say most things I mean even blades of grasses which his crew painted to look greener. Nonetheless I love all his work I have seen (and own in one shape or form) including the films mentioned above and of course the beautiful The Passenger. I have been dying to see the much criticized Zabriskie Point so that I could form my own opinion of it but I seems to be very hard to find a widescreen copy of it (most things out there are on a full screen transfer...I mean why bother with a film shot 2.35...I can wait).

So I miss the guy. I really hope positivity comes out of his passing such as more of his films to hit the dvd shelves. That would be nice. We will see.

So I really do plan to catch up on my film reviews. Next post, promise.