The Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury, London, Patrick Hodgkinson, 1972
THE PASSENGER (1975)
In this clip from Michelangelo Antonioni’s globe-trotting thriller, Jack Nicholson strolls through Hodgkinson's mixed use Brutalist development. Antonioni’s architectural background is evident in this film, particularly in the scenes which take place in Barcelona, in which several buildings by Antoni Gaudi feature.
"The final sequence of Antonioni's "La Notte" (1961) is perhaps the only episode in the whole history of cinema in which a love scene became a necessity and took on the semblance of a spiritual act.
It's a unique sequence in which physical closeness has great significance. The characters have exhausted their feelings for each other but are still very close to each other.
As a friend of mine said once, more than five years with my husband is like incest. These characters have no exit from their closeness. We see them desperately trying to save each other, as if they were dying."
The essential and incredibly monograph on the great icon, Jane Birkin. This biography-book, only published in French, is an intimate profile of her life and career as actress, model, singer and muse through most amazing photographs and film-stills of each of her films and vinyl covers records. Written by film critic Gérard Lenne and follow-up closely by Birkin this very complete book includes her discography and videography with her workings with Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Jacques Doillon, or Serge Gainsbourg and Alain Delon.
Part 5
In the Park
I often find myself asking a question.
‘What film would I live in if I could?’
It is a question that belies my own rather childish need to escape reality. But, if I could live in a piece of film, it would probably be Michelangelo Antonioni’s celebrated swinging cult classic, Blowup (1966). It is more than a little questionable as a choice, but needs must.
Based on Julio…