FILM DIRECTOR

Michelangelo Antonioni

1912 - 2007

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Michelangelo Antonioni ( AN-toh-nee-OH-nee or an-TOH-; Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo antoˈnjoːni]; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian director and filmmaker. He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962)—and the English-language film Blowup (1966). His films have been described as "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that feature elusive plots, striking visual composition, and a preoccupation with modern landscapes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michelangelo Antonioni has received more than 1,729,367 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Michelangelo Antonioni is the 27th most popular film director (down from 26th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from Italy (down from 246th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Film Director.

Michelangelo Antonioni is most famous for being a film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his Italian neorealist films of the 1950s and 1960s, including La Notte (1961), L'Eclisse (1962), Red Desert (1964), Blowup (1966), The Passenger (1975), and The Mystery of Oberwald (1979).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michelangelo Antonioni ranks 27 out of 2,041. Before him are Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Agnès Varda, and Georges Méliès. After him are George Lucas, Miloš Forman, Konstantin Stanislavski, Fritz Lang, Roger Vadim, and Quentin Tarantino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Michelangelo Antonioni ranks 10. Before him are Eva Braun, Erich Honecker, Milton Friedman, Wernher von Braun, Otto von Habsburg, and Jackson Pollock. After him are János Kádár, Millvina Dean, Raoul Wallenberg, Jorge Amado, Alfredo Stroessner, and John Cage. Among people deceased in 2007, Michelangelo Antonioni ranks 4. Before him are Ingmar Bergman, Boris Yeltsin, and Luciano Pavarotti. After him are Kurt Waldheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jean Baudrillard, Ève Curie, Marcel Marceau, Anna Nicole Smith, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Paul Tibbets.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni ranks 301 out of 5,161. Before him are Umberto I of Italy (1844), Pope Damasus I (305), Pope John X (860), Pope Adrian V (1205), Bonaventure (1221), and Carlo Goldoni (1707). After him are Pope Pius I (90), Pope Paschal I (775), Paolo Uccello (1475), Pope Gelasius I (410), Pope Adrian III (800), and Pope Benedict I (525).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni ranks 6. Before him are Federico Fellini (1920), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), Luchino Visconti (1906), Sergio Leone (1929), and Bernardo Bertolucci (1941). After him are Tinto Brass (1933), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), and Dario Argento (1940).

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Filmography

Blow-Up
Director
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Dec 18o 19667.363 / 10
L'Avventura
Director
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
Sep 14o 19607.531 / 10
La Notte
Director
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
Jan 24o 19617.934 / 10