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(aka 'Dare e avere" or "La Nuit" or "The Night")
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. Excerpt from the MoC website located HERE *** Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 follow-up to L'avventura--and the middle feature in a loose trilogy ending with Eclipse--repeats many of the melancholic themes and stylistic moves of its predecessor, with particular emphasis on the boredom and atrophied emotions of the rich. The results are somewhat more mixed, though on the whole the performances are better--which may not matter so much in an Antonioni context. The minimal plot, restricted to less than 24 hours, involves the death of passion between a successful novelist (Marcello Mastroianni) and his frustrated wife (Jeanne Moreau). The best parts of this movie tend to cluster around the beginning and end, and include the novelist's brief encounter with a nymphomaniac patient at a hospital and his longer encounter with the daughter (Monica Vitti) of an industrialist at a party; one of the worst is a walk taken by the wife around Milan, full of symbolic and pretentious details. Whatever one's occasional misgivings, this feature comes from what is widely considered to be Antonioni's richest period, and evidence of his stunning mastery is available throughout. German director Bernhard Wicki plays the couple's dying friend. Jonathan Rosenbaum capsule review from the Chicago Reader located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: January 24th, 1961 - Italy
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Distribution | Fox Lorber - Region 0 - NTSC | Masters of Cinema (Spine # 61) - Region 0 - PAL |
Masters of Cinema - Spine #47 Region 'B' - Blu-ray |
Criterion Collection - Spine #678 Region 'A' -Blu-ray |
Runtime | 1:54:56 | 1:57:08 (4% PAL Speedup) | 2:01:47.000 | 2:02:18.539 |
Video | 1.66:1
Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 5.5 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
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1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 38,306,217,348 bytesFeature: 35,687,344,704 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.99 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 47,527,688,739 bytesFeature: 35,827,507,200 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.97 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Audio | Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0) | Italian (Dolby Digital mono) | LPCM Audio Italian 1152 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit | LPCM Audio Italian 1152 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit |
Subtitles | English (burned in) | English, none | English, none | English, none |
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Release Information: Edition Details: • Filmographies
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• Original Italian theatrical trailer. |
Release Information: 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 38,306,217,348 bytesFeature: 35,687,344,704 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.99 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video Edition Details:
• Original Italian theatrical trailer (3:10 in 1080P) |
Release Information: 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 47,527,688,739 bytesFeature: 35,827,507,200 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.97 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
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• New interview with film critic Adriano Aprà and film historian Carlo
di Carlo (26:52) |
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Michelangelo Antonioni films on DVD (NTSC) - CLICK COVERS or REVIEW BUTTON for more information
Recommended Books for Michelangelo Antonioni reading (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
That Bowling Alley on the Tiber: Tales of a
Director by Michelangelo Antonioni |
Antonioni, Or, the Surface of the World by Seymour Chatman |
My Time With Antonioni: The Diary of an
Extraordinary Experience by Wim Wenders, Michael Hofmann |
Antonioni: The Poet of Images by William Arrowsmith, Ted Perry |
Antonioni by Sam Rohdie |
The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
(Cambridge Film Classics) by Peter Brunette, Ray Carney |
Michelangelo Antonioni by Seymour Chatman, Paul Duncan |
L'Avventura (B.F.I. Film Classics) by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith |
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Distribution | Fox Lorber - Region 0 - NTSC | Masters of Cinema (Spine # 61) - Region 0 - PAL |
Masters of Cinema - Spine #47 Region 'B' - Blu-ray |
Criterion Collection - Spine #678 Region 'A' -Blu-ray |