Rare wire photo of filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni with lead actress Monica Vitti attending the 1964 Venice International Film Festival with the Red Desert (Il deserto rosso) which went on to win its prestigious Golden Lion award. Note the Red Desert was Antonioni’s first foray into color. On home video the The Criterion Blu-ray is a must own and best release of it by far to date.

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Rare wire photo taken at the Venice International Film Festival in September 1964.

Related:
::: Film Archive Listing – Museum of Cinema
::: IMDb Listing
::: Review by Rodney @ Twitch
 
 

The titles for Darcy Paquet’s 10 film retrospective at this years Udine Far East Film Festival have been announced! The retrospective titled, “The darkest decade: Korean filmmakers in the 1970s” will also have an accompanying book available there. Putting together a retrospective is no easy feet especially in a case like this where Darcy selected 10 films that have never screened in the West before which brings all sorts of challenges in finding suitable prints, getting English subtitles made, rights issues and more! I’ll be checking out this retrospective at Udine this year so stay tuned for more coverage and reviews of it!

Udine Far East Film Festival just held its press conference, so I can announce the 10 films in the 1970s Korean film retrospective…

— Darcy Paquet (@darcypaquet) April 10, 2012

Ha Kil-chong’s POLLEN 화분 (1972), Kim Ho-sun’s YOUNGJA’S HEYDAY 영자의 전성시대 (1975), Yu Hyun-mok’s FLAME 불꽃 (1975) and RAINY DAYS 장마 (1979)…

— Darcy Paquet (@darcypaquet) April 10, 2012

Kim Soo-yong’s NIGHT JOURNEY 야행 (1977) & SPLENDID OUTING 화려한 외출 (1978), Kim Ki-young’sIODO 이어도 (1977) &KILLER BUTTERFLY 살인나비를 쫓는 여자 (1978)

— Darcy Paquet (@darcypaquet) April 10, 2012

…and Im Kwon-taek’s WANG SIB RI왕십리 (1975) and DIVINE BOW 신궁 (1979). A book will be published, and Kim Hong-joon will join a panel.

— Darcy Paquet (@darcypaquet) April 10, 2012

These films have taken over my life in the past three months! Waiting with nervous anticipation for the screenings, April 23-28.

— Darcy Paquet (@darcypaquet) April 10, 2012

 
 
Related:
::: Museum of Cinema Udine Far East Film Festival Ongoing Exhibit
::: Official Udine Far East Film Festival Site
 
 

Dolores del Rio is the island girl Luana in King Vidor’s 1932 adventure romance Bird of Paradise.

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It took eleven days to film for Michelangelo Antonioni in Vera, Almería, Spain, to finally get his seven minute long closing tracking shot for The Passenger. Here we see Antonioni just outside the make shift hotel entrance with the Westcam (used to film it) hovering to his right. It was a technically precise shot that required everything to be exacting and compounding this howling winds made it even more challenging. However on day eleven of shooting they finally got the footage they needed with it which was a blessing as a storm that blew in on day twelve completely destroyed its set.

The Passenger is a story of a television newsman who seeks to escape reality by assuming another man’s identity.

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::: Museum of Cinema: The Passenger (1975) Exhibit
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The Museum of Cinema exhibit for Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film, The Passenger (IMDb Profile | Wiki), will be an ongoing expansive online exhibit with new items added regularly fully exploring the film and its history. Check back in regularly as this exhibit evolves. In addition to this exhibit a complimentary exhibit focusing overall on Antonioni will kick off on roughly April 10th.

While David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is interviewing a Shaman in Michelangelo Antonioni’s, The Passenger, the tables get turned when the Shaman asks Locke, “Your questions are much more revealing about yourself than my answers would be about me.” The Passenger is a film that explores mankind’s often paradox of being caught and stuck living one life while dreaming and wishing they could be living another. What if we could change our identity tomorrow and live life anew?

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The Passenger Exhibit Archive:
::: Exhibit Gallery
::: Michelangelo Antonioni – Behind the Scenes Long 7 Minute Shot
::: Jack Nicholson & Maria Schneider – At Gaudi’s La Pedrera
::: Jack Nicholson – Arms outstretched Africa
::: The Passenger Museum of Cinema Listing

Exhibition will feature:
* Rare original stills
* Rare original on set and behind the scene stills
* International lobby cards
* International Posters
* Italian Photobustas
* Book artwork
* Video artwork
* Misc. film marketing/memorabilia material (stickers, bookmarks, etc.)
* And more…