Metro Cinema Society: Two by Antonioni

Two by Antonioni

Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni redefined the concept of narrative cinema, challenging the accepted notions at the heart of storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large; his films rejected action in favor of contemplation, championing image and design over character and story.

The Passenger

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Italy/ Spain/ France 1975, 126 min, 35mm

Jun 16 (2012) @ 4pm
Jun 17 (2012) @ 6:45pm
Jun 18 (2012) @ 9:30pm

A melancholy, depressed and jaded television reporter assumes the identity of a dead man while at a hotel in a north African country, not knowing that the man was a renowned arms smuggler. The newsman sees this switch as a... view more

Red Desert

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Italy/France 1964, 117 min, 35mm

Jun 22 (2012) @ 8:45pm
Jun 23 (2012) @ 7:15pm
Jun 24 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Jun 24 (2012) @ 9pm
Jun 26 (2012) @ 7pm

Michelangelo Antonioni’s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age - about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed... view more