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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.
Halprin was chosen by director Michelangelo Antonioni for the lead in his second English-language feature, Zabriskie Point. [2] The film, released in 1970, was a statement on the burgeoning violence in America and the growing rift between the establishment and the counterculture .
Zabriskie Point: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. With Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin. At a time of chronic civil unrest in late 1960s America, a young idealist and an anthropology student cross paths at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, California.
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- Drama
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- 1970-03-26
The hero and heroine fall in love, and lickety-split the camera goes all mushy and they race through the park, fly kites, feed the swans in the cemetery, and (most important of all) giggle as the mustard drips out of their hot dogs.
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.
In Googling about, some interesting trivia on this film came out, such as star Frechette’s joining a commune with Halprin, then robbing a bank and dying in prison in 1975, at the age of 27. Halprin, after breaking up with him and leaving the commune, married and divorced actor Dennis Hopper, then quit acting. Also, it was interesting to look ...
Oct 9, 2023 · Halprin, still alive, was married to Dennis Hopper for a while in the 1970s and later became a therapist. Mark Frechette acted in two more movies and robbed a bank to gain funds for a friend’s film project based on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
