History Creator / MichelangeloAntonioni

* BannedInChina: A literal example: His documentary about China, Chung Kuo, was banned in that state for thirty years.

* BannedInChina: A literal example: His documentary about China, Sung Kuo, was banned in that state for thirty years.

* ''Al di là delle nuvole (Beyond the Clouds, 1995) with Creator/WimWenders

* ''Il mistero di Oberwald (The Mystery of Oberwald, 1981)'', his Reunion Show with Monica Vitti

* ''Il mistero di Oberwald (The Mystery of Oberwald, 1981)'', his ReunionShow with Monica Vitti

** The so-called trilogy of alienation comprises ''Film/LAvventura'', ''[[Film/{{Lanotte}} La notte]]'' and ''[[Film/{{Leclisse}} L'eclisse]]''. They all deal with modern urban malaise of the leisurely classes. All three are shot in B&W. Also Monica Vitti stars in each of them At times ''Film/IlDesertoRosso'' is added to make it a tetralogy though it is a color movie.

* TheOner: The final shot of ''{{Film/The Passenger}}'' has to be seen to be disbelieved, one of the most elaborate single camera scenes and long takes in movie history.

Born to a middle class family in Ferrara, he studied economics at university where his interest turned towards the arts. Before World War II, he would stage productions of Luigi Pirandello, work as a film critic for the Roman Cinema magazine and later work as a screenwriter on early neorealist films. He was an assistant director for Marcel Carne on Les visiteurs du soir. Indeed, he and Creator/FedericoFellini worked on the screenplay for the latter's first solo feature ''The White Shiek''. Antonioni also worked as an assistant director on French productions, notably Marcel Carné’s Les Visiteurs du Soir. After making a few documentary shorts, Antonioni made his feature debut with ''Story of A Love Affair'' (1950), which was inspired by American FilmNoir and James M. Cain's ''Literature/ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice'' but filtered with a distinctly colder and less emotional focus.

* CelebritySong: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK-ffn6Q0k0 Michelangelo Antonioni] by Caetano Veloso.

** Played even more straight with Mina, a pop star, who composed the music for the song L'eclisse Twist played during the opening credits of the eponymous movie.

* CelebritySong: Michelangelo Antonioni by Caetano Veloso.

** Played even more straight with Mina, a pop star who composed the music for the song L'eclisse Twist played during the opening credits of the eponymous movie.

* ProductionPosse: Gianni di Venanzo was his cinematographer on all his films from Le amiche (1955) until L'eclisse (1962) with an important exception of L'avventura where this position was held by Aldo Scavarda. Later Antonioni shot three movies with Carlo di Palma.

Born to a middle class family in Ferrara, he studied economics at university where his interest turned towards the arts. Before World War II, he would stage productions of Luigi Pirandello, work as a film critic for the Roman Cinema magazine and later work as a screenwriter on early neorealist films. Indeed, he and Creator/FedericoFellini worked on the screenplay for the latter's first solo feature ''The White Shiek''. Antonioni also worked as an assistant director on French productions, notably Marcel Carné’s Les Visiteurs du Soir. After making a few documentary shorts, Antonioni made his feature debut with ''Story of A Love Affair'' (1950), which was inspired by American FilmNoir and James M. Cain's ''Literature/ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice'' but filtered with a distinctly colder and less emotional focus.

* Tonio Guerro wrote scripts for several of his films.

* ProductionPosse: To an extent. For example Gianni di Venanzo was his cinematographer on all his films from Le amiche (1955) until L'eclisse (1962) with an important exception of L'avventura where this position was held by Aldo Scavarda. Later Antonioni shot three movies with Carlo di Palma.

* UntranslatedTitle: Played straight with several of his Italian films with one-word titles, like {{Film/Le amiche}}, ''{{Film/Il grido}}'', ''Film/LAvventura (The Adventure, 1960)'', ''[[Film/{{Lanotte}} La notte]]'', * ''[[Film/{{Leclisse}} L'eclisse]]''. Averted with Film/{{Cronaca di un amore}} whic became Story of a Love Affair and ''Film/IlDesertoRosso'' which was translated as Red Desert.

* ''The Dangerous Thread of Things, a segment of Eros (2004)''

* HatTrick: Antonioni was among the very few directors to collect main prizes of all [[RuleOfThree three]] main cinema festivals. He received the Golden Bear from Berlin Film Festival for La notte, a Palm d'or from Cannes Film Festival for Blowup and Golden Lion from La Mostra in Venice for Il deserto rosso. The fact that he also earned a Golden Leopard in Locarno for Il Grido makes it a {{TabletopGame/Poker}} though the latter festival is less acclaimed.

* Main/ItalianNeorealism: In the earlier stages of his career he was linked to the movement. He made a documentary Gente di Po adhering to its rules. Cronaca di un Amore, his debut, is frequently considered a neorealist film despite its bourgeois characters and professional actors. Il Grido is still arguably this depicting the life of the working classes even though it is dedicated to the exisistential despair, here experienced by a blue-coller worker, not a middle-class character.

Antonioni's movies departed from the established style of neorealism which focused on social problems and was driven by a largely idealist and sentimentalist vision. Antonioni's films were bleaker, more psychological (at first), and had a strong visual style that emphasized surroundings, environments, spaces, architecture as much as plot and storyline. His movies were infamous for its slow rhythm, its innovative cinematography, both black-and-white and colour, the strong female roles in his movies (many of them having women as protagonists) and for its incredible camerawork. He's famous for his work with actress Creator/MonicaVitti, he also worked with Lucia Bosè, Gabriele Ferzetti, Creator/AlainDelon, Creator/VanessaRedgrave, Creator/JeanneMoreau, Creator/MarcelloMastroianni and Creator/JackNicholson (who presented Antonioni his Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1995). His collaboration with Creator/RichardHarris resulted in a conflict when the actor quit the production. Later he warned Creator/DavidHemming againist starring in an Antonioni film but Hemming agreed and never regreted about it.

Antonioni's movies departed from the established style of neorealism which focused on social problems and was driven by a largely idealist and sentimentalist vision. Antonioni's films were bleaker, more psychological (at first), and had a strong visual style that emphasized surroundings, environments, spaces, architecture as much as plot and storyline. His movies were infamous for its slow rhythm, its innovative cinematography, both black-and-white and colour, the strong female roles in his movies (many of them having women as protagonists) and for its incredible camerawork. He's famous for his work with actress Creator/MonicaVitti, but he also worked with the likes of Creator/VanessaRedgrave, Creator/JeanneMoreau, Creator/MarcelloMastroianni and Creator/JackNicholson (who presented Antonioni his Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1995).