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Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI〔(Honour at Quirinale website )〕 (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962)—Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities".〔 Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1960, 1962), Palme d'Or (1966), and 35th Anniversary Prize (1982); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion (1955), Golden Lion (1964), FIPRESCI Prize (1964, 1995), and Pietro Bianchi Award (1998); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=''Internet Movie Database'' )〕 ==Personal life== Antonioni was born into a prosperous family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy. He was the son of Elisabetta (née Roncagli) and Ismaele Antonioni.〔(Michelangelo Antonioni Biography (1912?-) )〕 The director explained to Italian film critic Aldo Tassone: While still a child, Antonioni was fond of drawing and music. A precocious violinist, he gave his first concert at the age of nine. Although he abandoned the violin with the discovery of cinema in his teens, drawing would remain a lifelong passion. "I have never drawn, even as a child, either puppets or silhouettes but rather facades of houses and gates. One of my favourite games consisted of organising towns. Ignorant in architecture, I constructed buildings and streets crammed with little figures. I invented stories for them. These childhood ''happenings'' - I was eleven years old - were like little films."〔Tassone, 7〕 Upon graduation from the University of Bologna with a degree in economics, he started writing for the local Ferrara newspaper ''Il Corriere Padano'' in 1935 as a film journalist. In 1940, Antonioni moved to Rome, where he worked for ''Cinema'', the official Fascist film magazine edited by Vittorio Mussolini. However, Antonioni was fired a few months afterward. Later that year he enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia to study film technique, but left it after three months. He was drafted into the army afterwards. During the war Antonioni survived being condemned to death for his membership in the resistance.〔(Gideon Bachmann and Michaelangelo Antonioni, Film Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4, Special Book Issue (Summer, 1975), pp. 26–30 )〕 For a comprehensive account of Antonioni's war time biography see "Michelangelo Antonioni's 'L'eclisse.'" Endnote No. 43.〔http://davidsaulrosenfeld.com/endnotes.html〕 Antonioni died aged 94 on 30 July 2007 in Rome, the same day that another renowned film director, Ingmar Bergman, also died. Antonioni lay in state at City Hall in Rome where a large screen showed black-and-white footage of him among his film sets and behind-the-scenes. He was buried in his home town of Ferrara on 2 August 2007. He was an atheist.〔Tassone, 43.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michelangelo Antonioni」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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