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The deaths this week of Bergman and Antonioni are worth discussion here, given their relevance to contemporary art, and in particular to the art that we all participate in.
Bergman's early films sometimes put me off, as I don't generally relate to pure metaphor in film. The Seventh Seal is of course a masterful work, but too deeply literary for my taste. However I found his late television work moving and affecting, nuanced familial dramas grounded in the daily dirt of life.
Antonioni has contributed a tremendous amount to the development of our creative passions. "Blow Up" is as fine a commentary on the inherent obsessiveness of editorial art as I have seen, leading directly into Coppola's "The Conversation" a decade later--these are two films that all music creators and producers should see. Antonioni's "Red Desert" claims a wonderfully bizarre and startling electronic soundtrack, typical of his experimental approach to scoring his films. I haven't yet seen "The Passenger," as I missed it when it was recently re-released to theaters.
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Roshi
I posted this up in chat.
No one gave a damn.
But I do.
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tantan
I give a damn that you give a damn.
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astroid
antonioni too?!
wtf why do these things always happen in pairs?
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sohcahtoa
This blog reminds me that I need to see "Blow Up" again. Greatness.
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Roshi
"Wild Strawberries" will always haunt me, as will Woody Allen's follow up "Another Woman" - two perfect movies about looking back. Okay, three movies about looking back - "After Life" by Hirokazu Koreada.
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tantan
My wife and I were trying to sort out whether any of the masters from that generation of film-makers are still around and working, and all I came up with was Godard.
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Roshi
Agnes fucking Varda!
If you haven't seen the "Gleaners and Me" I will kill you.
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tantan
Aw shit, this is a crappy time to die, I've just started writing music again! Can you at least wait until I'm burnt out again?
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Roshi
I'll give you a stay of execution if you put it on your netflix queue
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tantan
k bumping it to #2 in the queue now
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Roshi
LOL, I should be threatening more often
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tantan
u scares me 
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Roshi
Oh, c'mon, I look like oddjob on a bad hair day
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bbwax
The Passenger is one of my all time favorites. You should definitely check it out. I like it more than Blowup.
Someone cut a Boards of Canada music video to an Antonioni film. Was it Red Desert? I have never seen the whole film so I don't which it is.
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RIP to both, great directors. i liked Bergman a lot, Antonioni not so much, but i liked Blow Up.
i watched the story for each one on the news the last two days and it felt like snowballing.
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