Michelangelo Antonioni – MRQE

Lo sguardo di Michelangelo

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This is the final short film of Michelangelo Antonioni, starring as himself, as he seeks out the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarotti’s statue of Moses at St Peter’s Church in Rome.

Identification of a Woman

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women’s relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie.

Il mistero di Oberwald

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A hunted man breaks into the castle at Oberwald to kill the Queen, but faints before doing so. He is Sebastian, the splitting image of the King who was assassinated on his wedding day. The Queen discovers that Sebastian once wrote a subversive poem that she liked, even though it was attacking her. The Queen dares Sebastian to kill her, otherwise she vows to kill him.

Chung Kuo – Cina

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220 minute version consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older sections of the city, and a clinic where a Cesarean operation is performed, using acupuncture. The middle part visits the Red Flag canal and a collective farm in Henan, as well as the old city of Suzhou. The final part shows the port and industries of Shanghai, and ends with a stage presentation by Chinese acrobats.

Zabriskie Point

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Anthropology student Daria, who’s helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who’s wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Blowup

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Il deserto rosso

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo. Ugo’s old pal, Corrado, shows up in town on a business trip and is more sensitive to Giuliana’s anxieties. They begin an affair, but it does little to quell Giuliana’s existential fears, and her mental state rapidly deteriorates.

La Notte

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.

L’avventura

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Claudia and Anna join Anna’s lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna’s disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.

Il grido

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.