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Zabriskie Point / z ə ˈ b r ɪ s k i / is a 1970 American drama movie directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, and Rod Taylor. It was widely noted at the time for its setting in the counterculture of the United States.
Jul 14, 2009 · In 1973, Frechette mounted his own crackpot real-life version of Zabriskie Point when he held up a bank in Boston, later claiming it was a political act. (“Robbing that bank was a way of...
The director who made Monica Vitti seem so incredibly alone is incapable, in “Zabriskie Point,” of making his young characters seem even slightly together. Their voices are empty; they have no resonance as human beings.
Feb 5, 2014 · An all-consuming pessimism about America animates Zabriskie Point and gives it a subversive charge. Antonioni isn’t flattering the youthful audience he’s ostensibly trying to reach, he’s presenting a counterculture that’s rudderless and weak, crumbling to internal division and ineffectual follow-through on its revolutionary blather.
Oct 9, 2023 · Zabriskie Point, east of Death Valley, offers a vista of desolation and haunting beauty, an image of nothingness in a nation visited in the late 1960s by Italian filmmaker, Michelangelo Antonioni.
Jul 25, 2022 · The wooden and photogenic stars of Zabriskie Point, Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin, are non-actors. Frechette, cast after Antonioni spied him at a bus stop barking insults at a man leaning out of a third-story flat, was living in the acid-fascist Fort Hill cult of Mel Lyman (whose jug band features on the soundtrack).
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Mar 5, 2000 · Zabriskie Point came after the significant body of work Antonioni made throughout the ’50s and ’60s, and was his first film set in America. The story takes its cue from the hotbed of political unrest prevalent on university campuses at the time (late ’60s) and the conflict between the counter culture and the “establishment”.
