Essential Reading

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Luc Moullet on Michelangelo Antonioni: Rockefeller's Melancholy

"It is funny to note how Antonioni—who denounces in his writings as well as in his images the inhuman side of a world invaded by industry and the industrial landscape—succeeds in evoking all the plastic beauty—unknown until then - of the world of factories. He’s always the filmmaker who swallows his own tail. Through the image that he gives of the modern world, Antonioni glorifies it. It is the same thing for Buñuel and Fuller, who say they are attacking religion and violence, but, as filmmakers, live only by them. Could Buñuel exist without Catholicism? I don’t think so."

Moullet