Another Master departs
As if film lovers weren't already getting out the black armbands for Ingmar Bergman, today comes news of the death of Italian director Michelangel Antonioni. He was 94.
Antonioni's trademark was slow, deliberate, oblique films with shots that lingered on his star's impassive faces (like his one-time wife, Monica Vitti). His best-known works included "L'Avventura" (1960), his English-language debut "Blow-Up" (1966), "Zabriskie Point" (1970) and "The Passenger" (1975) - an intense trip through Africa with Jack Nicholson that was recently re-released in the United States.
And in the unusually large number of celebrity obituaries Monday - along with Bergman, there was TV host Tom Snyder and former 49ers coach Bill Walsh - let us not overlook the death of French actor Michel Serrault. He had a long list of credits ("Diabolique," "Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud," "Artemisia" and "Joyeux Noel" among them), but the world knows him best for his portrayal of Zaza, the flamboyant half of the gay couple in the 1979 comedy "La Cage aux Folles."
Antonioni's trademark was slow, deliberate, oblique films with shots that lingered on his star's impassive faces (like his one-time wife, Monica Vitti). His best-known works included "L'Avventura" (1960), his English-language debut "Blow-Up" (1966), "Zabriskie Point" (1970) and "The Passenger" (1975) - an intense trip through Africa with Jack Nicholson that was recently re-released in the United States.
And in the unusually large number of celebrity obituaries Monday - along with Bergman, there was TV host Tom Snyder and former 49ers coach Bill Walsh - let us not overlook the death of French actor Michel Serrault. He had a long list of credits ("Diabolique," "Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud," "Artemisia" and "Joyeux Noel" among them), but the world knows him best for his portrayal of Zaza, the flamboyant half of the gay couple in the 1979 comedy "La Cage aux Folles."
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