“He’s so solemn and humourless”: The legendary director who bored François Truffaut to tears
Brutal.
Michelangelo Antonioni
The one director Alfred Hitchcock called “a century ahead” before taking him down
“What have I been doing?”
Privilege and aimlessness in ‘Five Easy Pieces’ and ‘The Passenger’
A crushing portrait of careless living.
‘L’Avventura’: The influential movie Edgar Wright called “an existential riddle to baffle audiences”
A mind-bending masterpiece.
‘Easy Rider’: the one American movie that excited Michelangelo Antonioni
He could see the winds of change.
“I can’t get enough of it”: the movie John Carpenter calls the perfect enigma
He found it to be a mesmerising experience.