No landscape is as lovely as a woman. And dozens of a dudes leering at her is still as menacing as it was in 1960. L’Avventura starts with a missing woman, becomes a romance, and dissolves into a ...

This summer the most evocative vista on the silver screen in Los Angeles won’t be the buttes of Monument Valley in The Lone Ranger or the galactic wonders of Star Trek Into Darkness. Instead, it'll be ...

L'Avventura is not a sequel to La Dolce Vita; it is not social criticism; it is the finest film to reach Boston this year. Set in the Italian upper class, L'Avventura studies an individual, not a ...

Monica Vitti, the Italian star of Michelangelo Antonioni’s film masterpieces, including his trilogy “L’avventura,” “La Notte” and “L’Eclisse,” has died. She was 90. Vitti’s death was announced by ...

“Some filmmakers change the way we see things,” critic Penelope Houston wrote. “A few more change some of the things we see.” Michelangelo Antonioni did both with his 1960 tale of the search for an ...

ROME – Gabriele Ferzetti, the silently seductive Italian actor who rose to international prominence during the 1950’s and 60’s, when he played a dissolute playboy opposite Monica Vitti in Michelangelo ...

This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and established its director, Michelangelo Antonioni, as a major international talent. The plot concerns a yachting ...

The controversial, highly charged masterpiece (1960) that put Michelangelo Antonioni’s name on the international map. It’s a work that requires some patience—a 145-minute mystery that strategically ...

Well, Sandro, 41 years later, “L’Avventura” is clearly not only built to last, but belongs to that rare handful of films that somehow grow more contemporary every year. By all rights doomed when it ...