Michelangelo Antonioni RIP

[grady]

What the hell is going on?

Who is going to be next?

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[Deckard]

I must admit I thought Antonioni had died a while ago for some reason.

But yeah, European cinema is being emptied of its legends. Can't be many of them left now, at least of that generation.

[grady]

Jean Luc Godard is still alive and kicking.

[Deckard]

(Don't tempt fate.....)

[grady]

Originally Posted by Deckard

(Don't tempt fate.....)

It was either on a forum or an editorial I'd read somewhere, but someone else said about the same thing, adding that Godard and other director's should be taking their vitamins and eating properly and behaving for the next couple days just to ensure that nothing bad happens.

[GforGroove]

Originally Posted by grady

It was either on a forum or an editorial I'd read somewhere, but someone else said about the same thing, adding that Godard and other director's should be taking their vitamins and eating properly and behaving for the next couple days just to ensure that nothing bad happens.

that's mean!

oh man.. well e have Blow up forever. he was a classic way before being dead.

[grady]

Originally Posted by GforGroove

that's mean!

oh man.. well e have Blow up forever. he was a classic way before being dead.

A close friend is teaching a course on independent and experimental cinema/film for the second half of the summer term here in Portland at Portland State University. On Wednesday in honor of Antonioni's passing he elected to show L'Avventura instead of Blow Up or The Seventh Seal or Wild Strawberries, all of the previously mentioned were a digression from the film on the syllabus which was Julian Donkey Boy.

[GforGroove]

The bad thing about not seeing Julien Donkey Boy is that it is always great to see Herzog "acting?" for a film far from his world.