https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK0g_J1hhDc
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 06:03 (five years ago) link
ZP was my first Antonioni - made very little impression. I think it was the only one screened on TV regularly before The Passenger started doing the rounds.
That quote displays his reactionary politics (I guess this is where the doc on China might be useful to delve into this a bit more). I really don't care for almost any of the dialogue in his films, or what he thinks that could be written down. All the depth, focus and thinking went on in the image. Amazing any of it holds up over the length of a film, never mind four of them.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 08:55 (five years ago) link
Watching Zabriskie Point.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 01:38 (one year ago) link
Zabriskie Point is interesting as a marker for the beginning of the 70s
His most memorable films to me are from the 60s -L’avventura, La notte, L’eclisse, and Il deserto rosso
Blowup was good too, but seemed more shallow when I watched it recently
I still haven’t seen The Passenger
― Dan S, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:02 (one year ago) link
Diana Halprin was married to Dennis Hopper for four years.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:18 (one year ago) link
The energy or the vibe reminds me of The Model Shop in some ways - a shaggy story, a lot of drinking in of scenery (though this film has a lot of manufactured backdrops that help set a certain scene).
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:22 (one year ago) link
And man, what a soundtrack.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
It got torn to shreds at the time, but I saw a good print in a theater once and enjoyed the apocalyptic trippiness and the soundtrack.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
Has the Dick Cavett Show appearance been discussed yet?
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:26 (one year ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULES
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 03:31 (one year ago) link
Pink Floyd sucks but directors like Antonioni and Barbet Schroeder are good at framing them to make them look good
― Josefa, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 04:10 (one year ago) link
Interested in hearing why you think that about this one in specific. Most Antonioni I've seen boils down to beautiful people looking sad while walking down the streets of European cities - Zabriskie Point actually the closest I've seen him to being cerebral. But I think that kind of pure vibe filmmaking has its place and the pure beauty makes up for some of the emptiness.
Amazing stuff. "Tonight on the show, Mel Brooks and TWO FUCKING CULT MEMBERS."
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 11:03 (one year ago) link
I remember reading in Astral Weeks about Jonathan Richman referring to “that Mel guy.”
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 11:32 (one year ago) link
The leader of the cult I mean, not Brooks.
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 11:33 (one year ago) link
I think he may have even built him a pizza oven.
Not guy, fellow. That Mel fellow.Eden Ahbez, Jack Parsons, and other LA kooks...
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 12:05 (one year ago) link
Did we mention Antonioni visiting The Band whilst they were recording The Band in Sammy Davis Jr’s poolhouse?
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 12:07 (one year ago) link
gnna start saying that zabriskie point is actually abt jack parsons, hence the explosion at the end (spoiler)
(sadly it isn't tho, yet another reason why it's rubbish)
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 12:10 (one year ago) link
Relevant discussion starts around here: The Band.
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 12:14 (one year ago) link
Now starting to imagine Zabriskie Point with a Harry Nilsson soundtrack.
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 12:20 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmRosJmWIAMnNsP?format=png
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 12:31 (one year ago) link
Mark Frechette gave a good performance (dubbed into Italian) in Francesco Rosi's very dark and grim Many Wars Ago.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link