Eclipse

Pros: visuals (including looking at Vitti and Delon) in a great Criterion DVD edition
Cons: market-crash scene goes on too long, the African colonialist's party

My retrospective of the films of Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007), which began before his death at the end of July, has reached what I still consider the high point of his films in black-and-white, the 1962 "L'eclisse" (Eclipse). Seeing the Antonioni ...

Pros: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, magnificent Antonioni direction and images
Cons: Themes will seem trivial to some, marginal print quality, little plot and sparse dialog

The films of Michelangelo Antonioni are better known for their style points than for their substance. Typically, his films have little plot, dialogue, or action, but the beauty and poetry of the visual images is a real highlight. You’ll enjoy his ...

Pros: Convincing atmosphere of alienation, etc; Vitti and Delon
Cons: Boring (but on purpose).

Michelangelo Antonioni, who died recently, wants to overpower you with an atmosphere of disaffection with the world. The only other film of his that I’ve seen - L’Avventura (1960) - is famous as being the one where one of the seemingly major ...

Pros: Antonioni's Direction, Script, Cinematography, Look, Mood, Music, & Cast.
Cons: None, though Slow Pacing & Lack of Plot will Turn Off Mainstream Audiences

After the release of 1960's L'Avventura, Italian auteur Michelangelo Antonioni broke through the international film scene with his stark portrayal of alienation. The film was followed by La Notte a year later about the dissolution of a ...