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Decades after its widely panned 1970 release, Zabriskie Point garnered critical praise for its cinematography. Halprin and Frechette can barely be seen in the left of this scene filmed at Zabriskie Point. The film was panned by most critics and other published commentators of all political stripes, as were the performances of Frechette and Halprin.
Jul 25, 2022 · In March 1970, when Zabriskie Point was in national distribution, four Weathermen accidentally imploded themselves in a makeshift Greenwich Village bomb factory.
Jun 20, 2015 · Although the film’s final scene is truly iconic – a model home perched on a mountain is seemingly blown up in a protest against corporate America, debris flying into the sky to the sound of Pink Floyd – it wasn’t the original ending Antonioni had planned.
Feb 5, 2014 · Consider Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, as good a case study as any. 1970’s Zabriskie Point was the second of three English-language films Antonioni made for producer Carlo Ponti—the first was 1966’s Blowup, and the third was 1975’s The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, and one of the greatest tracking ...
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”.
Apr 4, 2010 · Zabriskie Point was the middle of three films Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni made for MGM: Blow-Up (1966) being the first and The Passenger (1975) the third. Of the three American films each have had their own idiosyncratic mini-history and cultish associations.
Decades after its widely panned 1970 release, Zabriskie Point garnered critical praise for its cinematography. Halprin and Frechette can barely be seen in the left of this scene filmed at Zabriskie Point. The film was panned by most critics and other published commentators of all political stripes, as were the performances of Frechette and Halprin.
