The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226021140)

"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 entr e to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances."--Library Journal

Author: Michelangelo Antonioni
ISBN-10: 0226021149
ISBN-13: 9780226021140
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 430
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.12w x 0.91d