"Director: Michelangelo ANTONIONI"

• Blow Up | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Michelangelo Antonioni's close-up of Swinging Sixties London. David Hemmings plays a master photographer who explores the city twenty-four hours a day focusing in on the world's most beautiful models. One day he takes some photographs of a couple embracing in a park and suspects he has stumbled across a murder. Antonioni received Academy Award nominations for Best Writer and Best Director in 1966 for this his first English Language film.

• LA NOTTE | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £13.35   |  Saving you £6.64 (49.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema, La notte [The Night] marked yet another development in the continuous stylistic evolution of its director, Michelangelo Antonioni - even as it solidified his reputation as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. La notte is Antonioni's Twilight of the Gods, but composed in cinematic terms. Examined from a crane-shot, it's a sprawling study of Italy's upper middle-class; seen in close-up, it's an x-ray of modern man's psychic desolation. Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8-1/2) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author and public intellectual; she is the wife. Over the course of one day and the night into which it inevitably bleeds, the pair will come to re-examine their emotional bonds, and grapple with the question of whether love and communication are even possible in a world built out of profligate idylls and sexual hysteria. Photographed in rapturous black-and-white by the great Gianni di Venanzo (8-1/2, Giulietta degli spiriti), La notte presents the beauty of seduction, then asks: When did this occur - this seduction of Beauty? The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Michelangelo Antonioni's haunted odyssey for the first time ever on Blu-ray. Special Features: New 1080p presentation of the film in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio with previously censored sequences restored for the first time. New and improved English subtitles Original Italian Theatrical Trailer 56-page booklet with an essay by film-critic and scholar Brad Stevens, and the transcript of a lengthy Q&A conducted in 1961 with Antonioni upon the film’s release.

• L'Avventura | Blu Ray | (30/05/2016) from £17.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (55.59%)   |  RRP £27.99

  MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI (La notte) invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative in its own right, L'avventura concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover (Once Upon a Time in the West's GABRIELE FERZETTI) and best friend (L'eclisse's MONICA VITTI, in her breakout role). Antonioni's controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary featuring film historian Gene Youngblood Selected-scene commentary by filmmaker Olivier Assayas Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials, a fifty-eight minute 1966 documentary by Gianfranco Mingozzi Writings by director Michelangelo Antonioni, read by actor Jack Nicholson, plus Nicholson's personal recollections of the director New English subtitle translation Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, along with the statement Antonioni made about the film and the letter that circulated in support of it after its 1960 Cannes premiere Click Images to Enlarge

• L'Eclisse | DVD | (28/09/2015) from £9.00   |  Saving you £8.99 (99.89%)   |  RRP £17.99

  L’Eclisse was the final film in Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L’Avventura and La Notte), a series of films that redefined the concept of narrative cinema. Filmed in sumptuous black and white, and full of scenes of lush, strange beauty, it tells the story of Vittoria (the beautiful Monica Vitti - Red Desert - Antonioni’s partner at the time), a young woman who leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal – Viridiana), then drifts into a relationship with a confident, ambitious young stockbroker (Alain Delon – Le Cercle Rouge). But this base narrative is the starting point for much, much more, including an analysis of the city as a place of estrangement and alienation and an implicit critique of colonialism. Using the architecture of Rome - old and new - as a backdrop for this doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of forming true connections amidst the meaninglessness of the modern world. The final shot remains one of the greatest endings in cinema.

• L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £13.05   |  Saving you £4.94 (37.85%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A group of well-healed friends head out on a sailing trip to a isolated volcanic island in the Mediterranean. When time comes to return to the yacht the group discover that Anna (the film's focus up to this point) is missing. Sandro (Anna's flame) and Claudia (her close friend) try without success to find her. While the rest of the group return to the mainland Sandro and Claudia remain on the island to assist the Coast Guard in locating Anna. After some days with no sign of her the pair decide to search back in Italy. During the time spent searching Claudia and Sandro begin to become attracted to one another and in due course they become lovers - all but forgetting about the still missing Anna.

• The Passenger (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (09/12/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In one of the most acclaimed films of all time, Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-up, Zabriskie Point) directed international star Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail, The Border, Wolf) and Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) in an elliptical and fascinating thriller about alienation and lost identities. Now finally making its Blu-ray debut in the UK, this essential work from one of cinema's most renowned and celebrated film artists is accompanied by an array of fascinating and insightful extra features Extras: Indicator Standard Edition Special Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Alternative presentation with original Italian Professione: reporter titles and credits Audio commentary with actor Jack Nicholson (2006) Audio commentary with screenwriter Mark Peploe and journalist Aurora Irvine (2006) New audio commentary with film historian Adrian Martin (2018) Jenny Runacre on ˜The Passenger' (2018, 15 mins): new interview in which the South African-born English actor recalls the film's production Steven Berkoff on ˜The Passenger' (2018, 11 mins): new interview in which the actor-writer-director remembers working with Antonioni Profession Reporter (1975, 5 mins): Michelangelo Antonioni discusses The Passenger in an archival interview conducted at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Antonioni on Cinema (1975, 5 mins): the acclaimed filmmaker discusses The Passenger and his philosophy of cinema The Final Sequence (1985, 13 mins): Antonioni analyses The Passenger's much-celebrated climactic sequence Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• La Signora Senza Camelie | Blu Ray | (21/03/2011) from £26.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The second feature film by cinema master Michelangelo Antonioni La signora senza camelie [The Lady Without Camelias] expanded the expressive palette of contemporary Italian movies demonstrating that a personal vision could take an explicitly poetic tack; that seriousness = neo-realism was perhaps already turning into something of a truism; and that Antonioni would answer to no-one but himself. It's the story of a shopclerk named Clara (played by the captivating Lucia Bos also of Antonioni's brilliant debut feature Cronaca di un amore) who finds a chance casting in a small movie role develop into a fullblown career as screen-siren. Tension erupts when her husband can no longer tolerate watching her frivolous cinema escapades and pushes her into a serious artistic production of the life of Joan of Arc... whereupon she is castigated by the critical establishment. A riveting 'behind-the-scenes' show-business drama La signora senza camelie explores themes that would haunt its director from L'avventura through La notte and The Passenger - the tenuous hold of an individual on her identity and the dangers inherent to performance in life and on-screen.

• Zabriski Point | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As a postcard from a bygone era, Michelangelo Antonioni's sole American movie is amazing to look at. This was the Italian director's first film since his English-language breakthrough Blowup (1966), which had been a masterpiece that captivated general and art-house audiences alike. Expectations understandably ran high, and as a visual experience Zabriskie Point delivered. Here was this foreigner's eye, among the most distinctive in world cinema, looking at city and desert, streets and backroads, office towers, mini-marts, police cars, airfields, and nonstop signage--the textures of U.S. life transliterated into something alien and askew. Revisited decades later, that's the aspect of Zabriskie Point that comes fascinatingly to the fore.

• Red Desert (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £16.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Antonioni's first color feature, Giuliana (Vitti) is a woman who, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, struggles to discover meaning, peace and serenity within the desolate and industrialized town where she lives.Plagued by mental anguish as the result of a past automobile accident, Giuliana first seeks comfort by having an affair with one of her husband's close friends (Harris). Ultimately left dissatisfied by the affair, Giuliana returns to her wandering, forever seeking solace from her angst. Additionally burdened by the illness of her only child, Giuliana recedes further and further into neurotic isolation as the surrounding urban environment threatens to consume her.Critically acclaimed the world over for its brilliant cinematography, Red Desert presents and unforgettable story rich with saturated color and unsurpassed symbolic imagery.

• La Notte | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema La notte (The Night) marked yet another development in the continuous stylistic evolution of its director Michelangelo Antonioni - even as it solidified his reputation as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. La notte is Antonioni's ""Twilight of the Gods "" but composed in cinematic terms. Examined from a crane-shot it's a sprawling study of Italy's upper middle-class; seen in close-up it's an x-ray of modern man's psychic desolation. Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita 8 1/2) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author and ""public intellectual""; she is ""the wife."" Over the course of one day and the night into which it inevitably bleeds the pair will come to re-examine their emotional bonds and grapple with the question of whether love and communication are even possible in a world built out of profligate idylls and sexual hysteria. Photographed in rapturous black-and-white by the great Gianni di Venanzo (8 1/2 Giulietta degli spiriti) La notte presents the beauty of seduction then asks: ""When did this occur - this seduction of Beauty?"" The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Michelangelo Antonioni's haunted odyssey in a new digital restoration uncut for the first time ever on home video.

• The Passenger | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Antonioni's suspenseful and haunting portrait of David Locke (Jack Nicholson) a drained journalist whose deliverance is an identity exchange with a dead man. He embarks on a treacherous journey through Africa Spain Germany England Spain. Possibly one of the greatest road movies of all-time.

• Identification Of A Woman - Michelangelo Antonioni | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £13.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of acclaimed Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's later films Identification of a Woman is an atmospheric erotically charged and visually stunning work set in Venice. Divorced middle-aged filmmaker Niccolo searches for a leading lady to star in his next feature. He later comes to the self-realisation that he is abusing this task to instead find himself a new lover. He then over-zealously manages to become involved with not one but two women. And after an initial attempt at juggling these relationships the filmmaker is instead left alienated and confused when one of the women mysteriously disappears and the other becomes pregnant by another man.

• L'Eclisse | Blu Ray | (28/09/2015) from £11.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (91.74%)   |  RRP £22.99

  L’Eclisse was the final film in Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L’Avventura and La Notte), a series of films that redefined the concept of narrative cinema. Filmed in sumptuous black and white, and full of scenes of lush, strange beauty, it tells the story of Vittoria (the beautiful Monica Vitti - Red Desert - Antonioni’s partner at the time), a young woman who leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal – Viridiana), then drifts into a relationship with a confident, ambitious young stockbroker (Alain Delon – Le Cercle Rouge). But this base narrative is the starting point for much, much more, including an analysis of the city as a place of estrangement and alienation and an implicit critique of colonialism. Using the architecture of Rome - old and new - as a backdrop for this doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of forming true connections amidst the meaninglessness of the modern world. The final shot remains one of the greatest endings in cinema.

• Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca Di Un Amore) | Blu Ray | (27/07/2020) from £15.71   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.

• Beyond The Clouds | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beyond The Clouds was director Michelangelo Antonioni's first film in ten years and also his last. This much-anticipated comeback assisted by Wim Wenders did not disappoint and displayed all the hallmarks of one of cinema's greatest legends. Adapted from Antonioni's own short stories four tales of love and desire are linked by a director in pursuit of his next project. Infatuations infidelities encounters unresolved and unrequited are presented with stunning imagery and feature a remarkable cast led by Sophie Marceau Irene Jacob Fanny Ardant John Malkovich and Jean Reno. Erotic and enigmatic Beyond The Clouds is the final work of genius in the career of a true legend who became one of European cinema's most revered and respected figures.

• Eros | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three visionary directors. One erotic journey. Three short films - one each from directors Michelangelo Antonioni Steven Soderbergh and Wong Kar-Wai - address the themes of love and sex. - The Hand (dir. Wong Kar-Wai) - Equilibrium (dir. Steven Soderbergh) - Il Filo Pericoloso Delle Cose (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)

• Il Grido | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A cinematic cry from one of the most revered of all auteurs Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni (L'avventura La notte Il Deserto Rosso) depicts a world of heartbreaking alienation with characters riven by trauma cast against the stunning backdrop of northern Italy's Po Valley - where the director spent his childhood. When sugar refinery worker Aldo (Steve Cochran) is jilted by his mistress Irma (Alida Valli) he takes to the road. With daughter in tow Aldo wanders the Po River delta seeking temporary - but always illusory - respite with a series of lovers who only serve to remind him of Irma. Unable to find a new life Aldo's haunted past gives way to a fateful finale. With a script conceived by Antonioni exquisite cinematography (including a signature concern with desolate vistas) and a plaintive score by renowned composer Giovanni Fusco the award-winning Il Grido - which scooped the Golden Leopard at Locarno - is an early key work in the director's much-celebrated oeuvre. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Il Grido for home viewing in the UK for the very first time.

• L'Eclisse | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Alongside L'Avventura and La Notte L'Eclisse completes director Michelangelo Antonioni's ambitious 60s trilogy on doomed relationships in a fractured world. The tale involves a woman Vittoria (Monica Vitti The Red Desert) who has just suffered the break-up of an imperfect relationship with a staunch intellectual (Francisco Rabal). Piero (Alain Delon The Leopard) a brash young stockbroker casts his romantic gaze in Vittoria's direction and Vittoria's

• Le Amiche | Blu Ray | (21/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A key film of Antonioni's middle-period Le Amiche (The Girlfriends) finds the Italian master expanding his palette in the realm of traditional narrative cinema by way of his powerhouse direction of an ensemble cast while entrenching his devotion to expressing the emotional makeup of the modern woman. Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) embarks from Rome to set up a fashion-salon in Torino. Shortly after arrival she finds herself caught up in the (melo)dramas of a bourgeoise circle of acquaintances (including the iconic Valentina Cortese) and their attendant attempts at suicide their class prejudices and the romantic alliances that threaten to transform the social clique into an emotional tar-pit. Le amiche represents the epitome of Antonioni's '50s period and although it lays the groundwork for such '60s breakthroughs as L'avventura and La notte it proves itself no less brilliant.

• Alain Delon - The Screen Icons Collection | DVD | (09/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A 5-disc collection of movies starring Alain Delon. Un Flic (1972): A bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just an asset for the even more spectacular heist... Plein Soleil (1960): Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Mr. Greenleaf to fetch his spoiled playboy son Philip and bring him back home to the States. This film is based on the book ""The Talented Mr Ripley"". L'Eclisse (1962): A young woman meets a vital young man but the love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature. Traitement De Choc (1973): Doctors at a rejuvenation clinic discover a formula that will prevent aging. However it involves harvesting the blood and body parts of young men a process that the doctors aren't particularly averse to. Flic Story (1971): This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson who escaped from prison in 1947...