The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema
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"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-Upand L'Avventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision.
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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 Visionprovides 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 entree to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances."—Library Journal
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