RIP Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni died yesterday. His films have left an indelible mark on the collective imagination. I am still wondering how the through-the-bars shot at the end of The Passenger was made..
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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accordnig to wikipedia:
"The camera ran on a ceiling track in the hotel room, and when it emerged outside the window it was picked up by a hook suspended on a giant crane that was nearly thirty metres high. A system of gyroscopes had to be fitted to the camera to mask the change from a smooth track to the less smooth and more mobile crane. The bars on the outside of the window were fitted on hinges. As the camera came up to the bars they were swung away at the same time as the hook of the crane attached itself to the camera as it left the tracks. The whole operation was co-ordinated by Antonioni from a van by means of monitors and microphones to assistants who, in turn, communicated his instructions to the actors and the operators.
In the DVD commentary, Nicholson states that Antonioni constructed the entire hotel entirely so that the final shot could be accomplished"
With Bergman's death yesterday, it's two days of great losses for arthouse cinema.
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