What is going on? Antonioni died on the same day as Ingmar Bergman. This great Italian filmmaker, who’s body will lie in state in Rome, is the directorial genuis behind: Blow Up, Zabriskie Point, Red Desert, L’Avventura, L’Notte and more.
“My subjects are, in a very general sense, autobiographical. The story is first built through discussions with a collaborator. In the case of “L’Eclisse,” the discussions went on for four months. The writing was then done, by myself, taking perhaps fifteen days. My scripts are not formal screenplays, but rather dialogue for the actors and a series of notes to the director. When shooting begins, there is invariably a great amount of changing. When I go on the set of a scene, I insist on remaining alone for at least twenty minutes. I have no preconceived ideas of how the scene should be done, but wait instead for the ideas to come that will tell me how to begin.” — Michelangelo Antonioni