The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema

The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema

<div><div><div>“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 <I>Blow-Up</I> and <I>L’Avventura</I>, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in <I>The Architecture of Vision</I>.<br><BR>Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the director’s unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera.<br><BR>“<I>The Architecture of Vision</I> provides a filmmaker’s absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonioni’s comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book.”—<I>Publishers Weekly</I><BR><I> </I><BR>“[Antonioni’s] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness.”—<I>Film Quarterly</I><BR><I> </I><BR>“This valuable resource offers entrée to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances.”—<I>Library Journal</I></div></div></div>