That Bowling Alley on the Tiber: Tales of a Director

by Michelangelo Antonioni

Book Overview

In this evocative book, Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the world's greatest directors, gives us a rare glimpse inside the creative mind. "My thoughts are always about film," he says, and here he has written thirty-three richly suggestive pieces elaborating ideas for films as yet unproduced.

Beautifully translated by William Arrowsmith, That Bowling Alley on the Tiber reveals a master of cinema in a new role--that of an accomplished and sensitive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019503676X
• ISBN13: 9780195036763
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

a haunting tale of the ideas unrealized

This book is a collection of ideas, sketches, plots and "cuts" told by the modern master - Michelangelo Antonioni. Some of the novellas in the book (4 of them) made it into his latest movie "Beyond the Clouds"; most of the work is still to be realized on film. Reading this collection helped me to understand the Great Teatrology of the Antonioni's work - L'Aventurra, La Notte, Eclipse and Red Desert much better. Director is researching the same themes of loneliness, impossibility of love and connections in the modern world full of dehumanizing technology. Landscapes and architecture, subtle variations of mood, breeze and movement ... and sadness.