Maria Schneider
Maria Schneider, who shot to international fame with Bernardo Bertolucci's 1972 film Last Tango in Paris, has died after a long bout with cancer, her family told AFP. She was 58.
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Blow-Up courtesy Warner Home Video
DVD Tuesday Alienation miniskirts and Swinging London The late Michelangelo Antonionis Blow-up wraps a mystery in an groovy existential enigmaSend your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks on the Movie Talk vodcastHear Maitland on the weekly podcast TV Guide TalkMy tiny tribute to the late Michelangelo Antonioni who died last week on the same day as fellow film great Ingmar Bergman is making Blow-up 1966 the film that spaked many a heated argument about what it all meant this weeks DVD Tuesday pick And of course the photo-shoot sequence featuring star David Hemmings and pioneering superstar model Veruschka regularly turns up on lists of the sexiest movie scenes so theres something for everyone Based loosely on a short story by Argentine experimental writer Julio Cortazar its set in London in the mid-1960s when Londons scene music fashion art clubs was the coolest in the world
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Michelangelo Antonioni courtesy Warner Independent Pictures
What a week — first Ingmar Bergman, now this. According to officials in Rome, one of Italy's, if not the world's, greatest directors, Michelangelo Antonioni, has died at the age of 94. Among his languidly paced but widely admired films are L'Avventura, La Notte and L'Eclisse. "In the empty, silent spaces of the world, he has found metaphors that illuminate the silent places in our hearts, and found in them, too, a strange and terrible beauty," said Jack Nicholson, the star of Antonioni's 1975 movie The Passenger, when he presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1995.
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