MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Michelangelo Antonioni (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his “trilogy on modernity and its discontents” — L’Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L’Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blow-Up (1966), Antonioni “redefined the concept of narrative cinema” and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced “enigmatic and intricate mood pieces” and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a “cinema of possibilities”. Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including an honorary Academy Award in 1995. He is one of three directors to have won the Palme d’Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear, and the only director to have won these three and the Golden Leopard. (More from Wikipedia)
In 1968, the Primitives released a very rare album in Italy called Blow Up; the famous film by Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni called Blow-Up had come out two years earlier. The album mostly features other Italian-language versions of American and British hit songs of the period. Their cover of the Strangeloves classic “Cara-Lin” from this album is included on the English Freakbeat, Volume 1 CD.
(May 2015)
