Michelangeo Antonioni, Italian Master Of Cinema, Dead At 94

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The New York Times reports that Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian director, has passed away.

"Antonioni, whose chilly depictions of alienation were cornerstones of international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense measures of admiration, denunciation and confusion, died on Monday at his home in Rome, Italian news media reported today. He was 94. He died on the same day as Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish filmmaker who died at his home in Sweden earlier Monday."

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David Thomson (born 1941 in London, UK) is a noted film critic in the United States and the author of the lauded New Biographical Dictionary of Film:

From a vacuous Italy to swinging London, Antonioni's studies of modern alienation gave cinema some of its greatest moments. David Thomson mourns a master

"On the radio yesterday in the US, someone asked me, "So who is left? Is there anyone else like Ingmar Bergman?" Of course, there is never anyone like anyone else, not in that way, so I knew how stupid I was being in saying, "Antonioni is still alive ... older, in fact, than Ingmar Bergman." They were alike only in being contemporaries and in doing what they did with the utmost seriousness. And I suspect that if you had reproached them both with, "Not too many jokes, Ingo? Mikey?" they would have sighed and agreed and said, "Not yet. But suppose we exit at the same moment. The obituarists may hear us laughing."

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