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60 of 86 · most liked firstNever seen the film (yet) but love this image from Red Desert aka (IL Deserto Rosso)from left: Monica Vitti, Valerio Bartoleschi, 1964.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you like Antonioni and have a million hours to spare, why not read all 52 parts of my 284,000-word analysis of Red Desert? There are references to 115 other films and 190 non-film sources, so it's only about half as monotonous as it sounds...
neutral · AI labelView post →They had a programme of films screening in New York along with the boutique release of “The Grey Man” where they showed “Red Desert” and other world cinema classics that “influenced” them, because if the Russos didn’t insert themselves into the pantheon of film history, no one else would
neutral · AI labelView post →Michelangelo Antonioni (with scenes from his film "Red Desert") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm browsing at stupid-o'clock again and I've just seen this astonishing photo by Don McCullin shared by @marcdavenant.bsky.social . Reminds me of the astonishingly beautiful film Red Desert (Ital: Il deserto rosso), 1964, by Michelangelo Antonioni. See 👇 for more en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Des...
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Red Desert (1964) Il deserto rosso
neutral · AI labelView post →‘There is nothing in the film beyond what you feel,’ said Antonioni to an interviewer. There is nothing in Red Desert beyond what Giuliana feels (or beyond what you feel about her feelings), so how can you understand the role of her environment in shaping her (and your) emotional state? #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →When Red Desert was released you couldn’t buy limited edition red velvet cake Oreos that were tied in to the latest Antonioni movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The dull but sinister corridors in Red Desert and Alphaville. Godard’s film was inspired by a conversation with Antonioni, but his camera is more proactive: it prowls aggressively down Alpha 60’s hallways, following Lemmy Caution’s heroic quest to vanquish the AI monster.
neutral · AI labelView post →Footage from Lynn Hanson of #BlueZeus still free in the Red Desert is spectacular. We are grateful she allowed it to be used in the film. Lynn has great compassion for the #wildhorses out on the range. They were friends, whom she had to watch be rounded up and taken away.
neutral · AI labelView post →The frame Monica Vitti plays with in L'eclisse, and the frame she gets caught inside in Red Desert. In one film she treats the world as an artwork that cannot be properly composed, in the other the world treats her like a piece of equipment that needs to slot into place ('ingranare').
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky Michelangelo Antonioni really went to town on his first color film, Red Desert (out today, 1964), with gorgeous colors designed to reflect the crumbling mood of purring kitten Monica Vitti after a car accident. Antonioni contrasts lovely Vitti against a grim industrial landscape; it’s fab
positive · AI labelView post →Antonioni’s first color film! RED DESERT (1964) screens next week, Thursday & Friday September 10th & 11th, at 7:30pm. Tickets: buff.ly/pdyTaEc
neutral · AI labelView post →Think I've just found a new favourite film. Red Desert, Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1964.
positive · AI labelView post →On this day (18th July) in 1983, the Scala Cinema was showing Red Desert (1964) and Blow-Up (1966) as a Michelangelo Antonioni double bill.
neutral · AI labelView post →I only watched 3 movies this week but I want to enjoy #LetterboxdFriday before it becomes #NetflixPropertiesFriday 😢 Supermarket Woman is *delightful* - I enjoyed it more than Tampopo. I can see it becoming a fav comfort film Red Desert is my third Antonioni and all three have been five stars !!
positive · AI labelView post →La Notte and The Passenger are the Antonioni films which speak the most to my soul, but Red Desert is the one that gets closest to the ideal film in my mind
positive · AI labelView post →If you had to pitch a movie with these 3 (Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield and Ke Huy Quan) as the leads, what would it be? Red Desert Rachel (Adams) and Greg (Garfield) are a couple on a honeymoon on a summer trip. Until they come across a frantic hitchhiker named Sam (Quan), on the run from a slasher.
neutral · AI labelView post →Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events. Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age. Sun 13th July Book: phoenixcinema.co.uk/movie/phoeni...
neutral · AI labelView post →These overhead shots in Red Desert and Il Provino portray controlled, sealed-off environments (a project briefing and a film set) in a similar light: as seen by a fly on the ceiling, each enterprise seems like a misguided folly that will induce fear and loneliness in everyone involved.
neutral · AI labelView post →I say this with love and admiration: 25% of any Antonioni film is spent asking yourself “why is Monica Vitti doing that?” (Watching RED DESERT on @criterion.bsky.social.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Lynn and Chad Hanson are so knowledgeable about the Red Desert and wild horses. They knew Blue Zeus and his family on the range and both gave amazing interviews in the movie. They are the founders of the Wyoming Mustang Institute: wyomustangs.org
neutral · AI labelView post →Red Desert! Wish I hadn't waited this long to see this movie. Incredible
positive · AI labelView post →After having seen Antonioni's trilogy and Red Desert, this film acts as a summation of those films, pushing the use of color composition in context of 60's mod scene. It's brilliant CINEMA 🔥
positive · AI labelView post →One of the most fascinating elements about Red Desert is that Antonioni had a lot of its filming locations hand-painted, down to the grass He did this because he wanted the film to have a very specific monochromatic palette with splashes of color
neutral · AI labelView post →In a deleted scene in L’avventura, one character speculates that Anna may have ‘simply drowned.’ Claudia retorts, ‘Simply?’ and they look at each other in dismay. ‘That dismay is the meaning of the film,’ said Antonioni. As Ugo says in Red Desert, ‘Grido o non grido, che importanza ha?’
neutral · AI labelView post →The red apron and deckchair hint at emotions that fight against the predominant cool greens. The creases in the deckchair make us aware that it is flattened out – perhaps this is how Red Desert inspired Lucio Fontana’s defiantly 3D sliced red canvas ('I saw Antonioni's movie!' he wrote on the back).
neutral · AI labelView post →When I think of transcendental film experiences I’ve had it’s like. Red Desert. Juliet of the Spirits. Accident. Lancelot du Lac. Toni Erdmann. Meetings of Anna. Films that left me breathless with glimpses of god
positive · AI labelView post →Probably L'AVVENTURA, for how it audaciously (and pointedly, in terms of what it's saying about the leisure class) declines to resolve its mystery. Just a conceptually brilliant movie. (Also love RED DESERT, primarily on visual grounds.)
positive · AI labelView post →Totally worth read if you're into Antonioni, a detailed analysis of the Red Desert movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →‘The genius of scientists,’ cries the narrator of Seven Reeds, ‘the power of machines, the valour of engineers, the intelligent and inexhaustible labour of workers.’ On one level, like Red Desert, this film is about the power of modern industry to flood the world and drown its inhabitants.
unlabelledView post →In Red Desert, workers’ rights are simply regulated by the state: an ‘azienda statale’ like this factory simply complies with these regulations, and such compliance is as cold-blooded and by-the-numbers as the strike we saw at the start of the film.
unlabelledView post →In Part 5 of ‘Everything That Happens in Red Desert’, I finally get past the title sequence and discuss the first scene of the film…but only the establishing shots. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Great, now we have to reimagine the League of Extraordinary Arthouse Characters movie universe as an interactive Red Desert VR experience. A digital Westworld for mid-century alienation.. a real-life (virtual) Marienbad without the jokes
unlabelledView post →Can definitely recommend the others which Darrell has mentioned although for me L’Eclisse my favourite. Red Desert is very different, Antonioni’s first colour movie set against a bleak industrial landscape, but again well worth watching 👍
unlabelledView post →7. RED DESERT. antonioni's first color movie and he uses beautiful technicolor to film: black smoke, trash, nature devastated by human industrialism, factories, disorienting interiors, you get the idea. monica vitti is incredible
unlabelledView post →Red Desert (1964, d. Antonioni) Magnificently shot film as Monica Vitti delivers one hell of a performance as a woman, recently recovered (?) from an auto accident, moves on. The plot in this isn’t much but it’s a great story, go figure.
unlabelledView post →Antonioni's films Red Desert and Identification of a Woman contain two of my favorite foggy scenes in a film. I think The Others might be #3 for me! All just stunning.
unlabelledView post →Giuliana, in Red Desert, is a lot like the protagonist in Cantet’s next film, Time Out. As Cantet said, ‘Vincent experiences the same alienation as the workers in Human Resources, even if he’s not an industrial worker… His job doesn’t correspond with his needs.’
unlabelledView post →Every scene in the film is fundamentally concerned with her feelings. Red Desert (or at least my Red Desert) is focused on exploring how it feels to be Giuliana, to be a casualty of the modern world...regardless of whether Antonioni himself was more like Ugo or Corrado ‘in real life’.
unlabelledView post →TAGLINE: 'This is the story of a woman... Her hidden thirsts and hungers... Told by the world-famous director Michelangelo Antonioni in his first color film.' Czech movie poster for Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert artwork by Bedrich Diouhy (1964).
unlabelledView post →The Red Desert (1964) www.imdb.com/title/tt0058... #film
unlabelledView post →– An Interview With Film Music Historian Daniel Schweiger “Red Desert Nights” – Making Ghosts Of Mars Scoring Ghosts Of Mars Ghosts of Mars Special Effects Deconstruction Original Theatrical Trailer
unlabelledView post →Red Desert by Michelangelo Antonioni is a film I have watched every decade since 1990 and each time it’s an enriching experience. I see something new [or something I forgot] in each viewing. It may be the apotheosis of a career full of masterpieces.
unlabelledView post →20 Day Movie Challenge Choose 20 movies that greatly influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just pictures. Day 7 Deserto Rosso Red Desert (1964)
unlabelledView post →Check out this film on MUBI: Red Desert. Antonioni’s last major collaboration with Monica Vitti & his first colour feature is an intense study in mental fragility set against the backdrop of a stark Italian industrial landscape.
unlabelledView post →Name a film with colour in the title RED DESERT (DESERTO ROSSO)
unlabelledView post →A simply amazing film 🙂 Antonioni's use of color in RED DESERT is truly expressive 🙂
unlabelledView post →Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert! The third film of his that I’ve seen and all three have blown my mind tbh
unlabelledView post →Red Desert was among the first Italian movies filmed in color. Without filters or manipulation of the film, director Michaelangelo Antonioni experimented with color through direct application and literally painted the landscapes. Black paint on a mudfield, grey on food, occasionally red walls.
unlabelledView post →Red Desert 1964 This would make a good companion film for Melancholia (2011). Interesting to use color by employing it so sparingly. #filmsky #movies #film #cinema
unlabelledView post →It's quite mesmeric, Monica Vitti is quite good at appearing to have the sort of nervous energy you'd expect her character to have. Richard Harris is a bit flat, being overdubbed doesn't suit somebody with his natural gravitas. Red Desert (1964) — The Movie Database (TMDB) […]
unlabelledView post →Have you seen Europa '51? I think Red Desert is a kind of remake of that film: the protagonist's 'mental illness' and the breakdown in her relationship with her son are responses to the traumatised postwar context / alienating industrial context respectively.
unlabelledView post →Bravo! so great to find another Antonioni-ite. I think that the "lovemaking scene" between Richard Harris and Monica Vitti in Red Desert is THE most uncomfortable scene in all film history...
unlabelledView post →Dova’s Rite of Spring does not attempt such dramatic three-dimensional effects. Arguably, it does the opposite: it collapses space in a way that chimes with the telephoto-lens shots in Red Desert. This painting fits comfortably into a film where such ‘flattened’ images are the norm.
unlabelledView post →I like Amiche written by Pavese. I do need to see Red Desert again. But I think Eclipse might be shot for shot my favorite film. The photography is absurdly great. Top 10 all time at least
unlabelledView post →Schrader calls Red Desert ‘the film that changed everyone’s attitude toward colour and completely freed its use from realism.’ He cites Antonioni’s comments about the ‘invasion of colour’, and how a single object can introduce into our homes ‘an echo of industrial living.’
unlabelledView post →The troubled mother/son relationship in Red Desert, and the fact that Giuliana is seen as mentally ill by her husband, may well remind us of Rossellini’s film, but the comparison throws into relief how different the two stories are. Rossellini never loses hope; Antonioni never even looks for it.
unlabelledView post →How many frames do you need to guess this drab, depressing film? I got it on one because it's a long-time favourite. (It's also thematically related to Red Desert, hence this re-post...) #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Teaching BLOW-UP for the 2nd time next week in my film seminars for adults. Why do you suppose such a smart, intuitive filmmaker made the drastic mistake of casting Richard Harris? He’s as wrong for RED DESERT as Jack Palance is wrong for CONTEMPT. It bothers the heck out of me…
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