02/08/2002 - Cinecittà Holding has organised a one-man show of Michelangelo Antonioni’s entire body of film work

There could be no better way to celebrate the 90th birthday of one of the world’s greatest film directors of all time. Carlo di Carlo is the curator of the biggest-ever fully comprehensive Antonioni retrospective ever organised that includes all his short films as well as a number of films about Antonioni including the one his wife, Enrico Fico made during the making of Al di là delle nuvole entitled Fare un film è per me vivere – Filmmaking is life itself to me.

This retrospective has been organised by Cinecittà Holdingespecially for the Festival and includes the world premiere of the restored print (by courtesy of Mediaset-Cinema Forever and the National Film School/National Film Archive) of one of Antonioni’s most famous masterpieces, L’avventura.

The titles of the retrospective:

Shorts 1 (1943-1964)
Gente del Po, 1943/47, 9’
N.U. (Nettezza urbana), 1948, 9’
L'amorosa menzogna, 1949, 10’
Superstizione, 1949, 9’
Sette canne un vestito, 1949, 9’
La villa dei mostri, 1950, 10’
Vertigine (frammenti de La funivia del Faloria), 1950, 4’
Tentato suicidio (ep. L'amore in citta'), 1953, 20’
Il provino (prefazione a I tre volti), 1964, 35’

Shorts 2 (1978-1997)
Ritorno a lisca bianca, 1983, 10’
Fotoromanza, 1988, 4’
Kumbha mela (India), 1988, 18’
Roma '90, 1990, 9’
Noto mandorli Vulcano Stromboli carnevale, 1992, 10’
Sicilia, 1997, 9’
Antonioni visto da Antonioni, interview by Lino Miccichè, 1978, 28’

Features:
Cronaca di un amore (Story of a Love Affair) , 1950, 110’
I vinti (The Vanquished) , 1952, 110’
La signora senza camelie (The Lady Without Camelias) , 1953, 105’
Le amiche (Girlfriends) , 1955, 104’
Il grido (The Cry) , 1957, 102’
L'avventura (The Adventure) , 1960, 140’
La notte (The Night) , 1961, 122’
L'eclisse (The Eclipse) , 1962, 125’
Il deserto rosso (Red Desert) , 1964, 120’
Blow up 1966, 110’
Zabriskie Point, 1970, 110’
Chung kuo Cina 1, 2, 1972, 120’
Chung kuo Cina 3, 4, 1972, 120’
Professione reporter, 1974, 120’
Il mistero di Oberwald, 1980, 123’
Identificazione di una donna, 1982, 128’
Al di là delle nuvole, 1995, 109’

About Antonioni:
L'ultima sequenza di Professione: reporter by André S. Labarthe, 1974, 12’
Caro Antonioni. . . by Gianni Massironi, 1995, 120’
Fare un film per me è vivere by Enrica Antonioni, 1995, 60’
Antonioni, lo sguardo che cambiò il cinema, by Carlo Di Carlo and Sandro Lai, 2001, 60’

(Translated from Italian)