SPRING 2006 The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni Monday, March 27 LA NOTTE (The Night) 1961 Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti Speaker: Noa Steimatsky

Tuesday, April 4 L’AVVENTURA (The Adventure) 1960 Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Esmeralda Ruspoli Speaker: Leonard Quart

Thursday, April 6 L’ECLISSE (The Eclipse) 1962 Alain Delon, Monica Vitti Speaker: Ivone Margulies

Friday, April 7 IL DESERTO ROSSO (Red Desert) 1964 Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Aldo Grotti Speaker: Richard Peña

Monday, April 10 BLOW-UP 1966 Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings Speaker: Kent Jones

Tuesday, April 11 THE PASSENGER 1975 Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider Speaker: Alexander Stille

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SPRING 2006 The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES: Noa Steimatsky is Associate Ivone Margulies is the author of annual “Rendez-Vous with French Kent Jones is associate director Professor of Art History at Yale Nothing Happens: Chantal Cinema Today” program. He is also of programming at the film society University. Her book on landscapes Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday an Associate Professor of Film at of Lincoln Center, and member of in Italian cinema is forthcoming (Duke U. Press, 1996), and editor of Columbia University, where he the New York Film Festival selec- from the University of California Rites of Realism: Essays on specializes in film theory and tion committee. He is New York Press. Most recently she has been Corporeal Cinema (Duke U. Press, international cinema. correspondent for Cahiers du the recipient of the Rome Prize at 2003). She is currently completing Cinema and editor-at-large and Alexander Stille is a free-lance the American Academy in Rome, a book on Theatricality and frequent contributor to Film writer who lives in New York. His where she explored the use of the Cinema. She teaches film criticism Comment and Artforum, among latest book, The Future of the Past Cinecitta` studios as refugee camp and history in the Film and Media other publications. He is the author (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is an in the post-war period. She had Studies Department at Hunter of the monograph L'argent and two exploration of the cultural impact previously received the Fulbright College. upcoming books on Hou Hsiao- of technological change and its Award and, in 2000-2001, the Getty Hsien and Andre Techine. He is Richard Peña has been the effect on our relation to the histori- Research Grant for her on-going co-author of Martin Scorsese's Il Program Director of the Film cal past. He is also the author of project “On the Face of Film.” Mio Viaggio In Italia. Society of Lincoln Center and the Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Leonard Quart is Professor Director of the New York Film Italian-Jewish Families Under Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the Festival since 1988. At the Film Fascism (Penguin), which won the College of Staten Island and at the Society, Peña has organized 1992 Los Angeles Times Book CUNY Graduate Center. He has retrospectives of Michelangelo Award for the best work of General written essays and reviews for Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, Abbas Non-Fiction; and Excellent Dissent, Film Quarterly, The Kiarostami, Robert Aldrich, Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death ENGLISH SUBTITLES Forward, London Magazine, and Wojciech Has, Youssef Chahine, of the First Italian Republic CURATED BY JENNY McPHEE Newsday. He is a Contributing and in 2003 Yasujiro Ozu, as well (Vintage 1995). Stille is also a reg- All Screenings at 6:30 pm Editor of Cineaste. His major publi- as major film series devoted to ular contributor to the New Yorker, Light Refreshments Served cations include How the War was African, Taiwanese, Polish, The New York Times and The New Admission: $5 Remembered: Hollywood and Hungarian, Arab, Cuban and York Review of Books. Vietnam co-authored with Albert Argentine cinema. From 2001 to The Italian Academy for Auster, (Praeger, 1988), The Films 2002, he was the host on the Advanced Studies in America of Mike Leigh (Cambridge Sundance Channel’s 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th and 118th streets) University Press), and the third edi- “Conversations in World Cinema.” www.italianacademy.columbia.edu tion of American Film and Society Since 1996, he has organized (Praeger, December 2001). together with Unifrance Film the