num_pages: 430
description: 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 LAvventura  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 directors 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 filmmakers absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonionis comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book. Publishers Weekly [Antonionis] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness. Film Quarterly This valuable resource offers entre to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances. Library Journal
language: English
title: The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema
publisher: University of Chicago Press