Italian actress Monica Vitti, best known internationally for starring in Michelangelo Antonioni’s breakthrough cinematic trilogy “L’Avventura,” “La Notte” and “L’Eclisse,” as well as in the director’s ...

DEPENDING UPON WHICH expert you listen to, “L’eclisse” was either the last in Antonioni’s trilogy, which began with “L’avventura” and “La Notte,” or the third in his tetralogy, which ends with “Red ...

The opening shot of Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love is truly one of the most exciting moments the Iranian director has ever put to screen. The image itself is of an absence — an empty chair at ...

In Brief: The final film in Michelangelo Antonioni's "alienation trilogy," L'eclisse (1962) is one of those art-house warhorses that everyone is supposed to know and revere. It's also not a lot of fun ...

Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the great masters of 20th Century film, gets a marvelous and very thorough retrospective from the Gene Siskel Film Center starting this week. It’s a splendid program, ...

Two of the major figures of postwar European cinema, Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman, 89, and Italy’s Michelangelo Antonioni, 94, died this week. Today’s posting is the second part of an assessment of ...

Monica Vitti, the Italian star of Michelangelo Antonioni’s film masterpieces, including his trilogy “L’avventura,” “La Notte” and “L’Eclisse,” has died. She was 90. Vitti’s death was announced by ...