Michelangelo Antonioni
1) Blow-up
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A talented photographer becomes involved with a strange woman after he inadvertently takes photographs of a murder.
2) Red desert
Series
Criterion collection volume 522
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.
3) L'avventura
Series
Criterion collection volume 98
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story about the search for a girl lost on an island; gradually the searchers become preoccupied with their own problems, and the girl is never found.
Publisher
NoShame Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 p.)
Description
Groundlessly jealous of his wife's romantic past, Enrico Fontana hires a private detective to finally determine whether she is faithful or not. Ironically, his suspicious attitude unconsciously brings his wife, Paola, together with Guido, a man with whom she had once been in love. Paola and Guido's past was clouded in tragedy. Giudo had been involved with Paola's close friend's death. Their passion rekindled once again, the lovers consider murdering...
5) Le amiche
Series
Criterion collection volume 817
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four female friends living in Turin examine their troubled love lives as they cope with the suicide attempt of a fifth friend.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?
Series
Criterion collection volume 585
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (27 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.
8) Blow-up
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Paola is the beautiful and jealously guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana. In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise.
10) Eros
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
EROS is an anthology of three short films, each touching on the subjects of love and sexuality, from three acclaimed directors from three disparate cultures—Steven Soderbergh (United States), Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy) and Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong). In The Hand, Gong Li stars as a 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible love affair with her tailor. Directed by Wong Kar Wai. Equilibrium focuses on an advertising executive (Robert Downey, Jr.)...
11) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Formats
Description
Tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple's doomed affair, the director reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (417 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy man hires a private detective to investigate his wife and discovers her criminal past with a former lover; four comic tales examine the hypocrisies surrounding sex; impotent Army officer Andrea Rossi-Colombotti finds that he will get aroused only in life-threatening situations.
Series
Criterion collection volume 189
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ivan Cavalli brings his new wife Wanda to Rome on the least romantic honeymoon in history--a rigid schedule of family meetings and an audience with the Pope. But Wanda, dreaming of the dashing hero of a photo-strip cartoon, drifts off in search of the White Sheik, thus setting off a slapstick comedy.
14) Le amiche
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Rosette, a girl from a wealthy family, who attempts suicide. From the attempted suicide, she goes on to meet a group of women who she will become friends with--Clelia, Nene, and Navy. The film shows how various experiences in their lives bring about changes in their relationship. It describes the life experiences these friends have, from a suicide to the finding of a new love to a separation to a marriage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 678
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Description
During one evening, an author and his wife begin to explore their deteriorating marriage and the indifference that they feel towards their circle of friends.