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The Architecture of Vision
Writings and Interviews on Cinema
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“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 L’Avventura, 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 director’s 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 filmmaker’s absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonioni’s comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book.”—Publishers Weekly
“[Antonioni’s] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness.”—Film Quarterly
“This valuable resource offers entrée to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances.”—Library Journal
Press Reviews:
“Antonioni is a sometimes charming, if somewhat reluctant, even contrary subject; he is also endlessly quotable.”
Robin Lippincott | New York Times
“Somewhat comparable in scope to François Truffaut’s classic Hitchcock (1983) and, more redently, Peter Bogdanovich’s This Is Orson Welles (1992), The Architecture of Vision provides a filmmaker’s absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonioni’s comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book.”
Publishers Weekly
“[Antonioni’s] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness.”
Film Quarterly
“This valuable resource offers entrée to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances.”
Library Journal
See the publisher website: University of Chicago Press
See the complete filmography of Michelangelo Antonioni on the website: IMDB ...
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