Antonioni: The Poet of Images
"Antonioni is one of the greatest living artists. As a director of film, his only living peer is Kurosawa, and . . . he is unmistakably the peer of the other great masters in all the arts." So spoke William Arrowsmith, the great critic and translator who, upon his death in 1992, left behind a series of unpublished lectures on the Italian master. Arrowsmith's lucid, creative, and passionately expressed lectures are an entertaining and immensely helpful guide through eight of Antonioni's most important films, includingL'Avventura,Red Desert,Blow Up, andThe Passenger. This book not only guides the reader through Antonioni's work, but also defends the cinema as an art as serious as any other.