�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-Up and L�Avventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision.





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 Vision provides 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 entr�e to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances.��Library Journal





Edited by Carlo di Carlo and Giorgio Tinazzi With a Preface by Carlo di Carlo and an Introduction by Giorgio Tinazzi American Edition also Edited and with a Preface by Marga Cottino-Jones


430 pages, 6 x 8-1/2 � 1996, 2007





Interviews


A Conversation with Michelangelo Antonioni


An Interview with Michelangelo Antonioni


Apropos of Eroticism


I Am Tired of Today�s Cinema


The World Is outside the Window


Myself and Cinema, Myself and Women


The History of Cinema is Made on Films


Profession Against


Ten Questions


Conversation


Identification of a Filmmaker


Interviews on Films


Story of a Love Affair


The Vanquished


L�avventura


La notte


The Eclipse


Red Desert


The Night, the Eclipse, the Dawn


The American Desert


Zabriskie Point


The American Experience


A Constant Renewal


Talking of Michelangelo


Antonioni Discusses The Passenger


An in-Depth Search


The Director and Technology


A Film based on Conflict


Identification of a Woman


My Method


Interview





About the Author


Filmography


Selected Bibliography


Index