The day after Ingmar Bergman dies, one of Italy's most famous filmmakers, Michelangelo Antonioni has passed away. Although he divided audiences into those who found his mysterious works pretentious or fascinatingly enigmatic, he was always interesting and stylish. L'Avventura in 1960 was his international breakthrough although he'd been directing since the forties, and he followed it with La Notte, L'Eclisse, The Red Desert, Blowup (perhaps his most famous film), Zabriskie Point (with its explosive climax), The Passenger and Identification of a Woman among others. He even continued working after serious stroke, Beyond the Clouds being his best known recent film.
