Zabriskie Point

Titolo originale: Zabriskie Point
Regia: Michelangelo Antonioni |
Anno: 1970
Origine: Italy | United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: california | police brutality | free love | students' movement | 1970s | counter-culture | desert | student protest | death valley | pink floyd |
Cast: Mark Frechette | Daria Halprin | Paul Fix | G. D. Spradlin | Bill Garaway | Kathleen Cleaver | Rod Taylor | Martin Abrahams | Michael L. Davis | Lee Duncan | George Dunn | Dennis Falt | Harrison Ford | Jim Goldrup | Norman Grabowski | Philip Baker Hall | Bill Hickman | Kenner G. Kemp | Peter Lake | Wesley Lau | Cec Linder | Boyd 'Red' Morgan | Bruce Neckels | Tom Steele | William Watson | Johnny Wilson | Jeff Zinn |

L'amore tra una ragazza benestante e uno studente ribelle di Los Angeles che ruba un aereo alla ricerca della libertà. Finale profetico esplosivo in forma di apocalisse capitalistica. La sproporzione tra idee e apparato figurativo, tra esilità della storia e terribilità della conclusione irritò la critica americana, ma l'esilità (la superficialità) non è soltanto della storia: è l'invenzione registica che bisogna mettere in discussione, è la pregnanza figurativa che manca, sostituita da una compiaciuta lussuria fotografica (Alfio Contini). È il film di un provinciale che punta al grandioso. Sam Shepard collaborò alla sceneggiatura. Una buona colonna rock con (fra gli altri) Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead e Rolling Stones.

Approfondimenti

Harrison Ford fans know his scenes were cut from this film. However, look closely in the jail scene: [...] D
Michelangelo Antonioni's assistant and casting director, Sally Dennison, first spotted Mark Frechett [...] D
17 camera set-ups were employed for the climactic explosion. D
Michelangelo Antonioni's leftist politics made the film controversial from the start. The production [...] D
Rod Taylor's dialogue was written specifically for him by Sam Shepard. D
Actor James Caan considers this to be the worst film he has ever seen D
Both lead characters were named after the actual actors who played them: Mark & Daria. When a cop as [...] D
In a early scene, Mark and his counterculture friend are driving in their vintage pickup truck. One [...] D
Screenwriter Clare Peploe's brother, Mark Peploe, would write the screenplay to Michelangelo Antonio [...] D
In 2001, A retrospective documentary on Zabriskie Point was made that included interviews with many [...] D
Harrison Ford's scene was deleted but his voice remains in Rod Taylor's phone-call scene. D
The lead actor Mark Frechette had a different idea about this film than the director Antonioni. Mark [...] D
The second of three English language films that Michelangelo Antonioni made for MGM and producer Car [...] D
On March 8, 1967, Hail Thomas Hansen, 20, took a private plane from Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, for [...] D
The old car that Daria is driving is a 1952 Buick Special De Luxe. D
Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin became romantically involved during the film's protracted shooting [...] D
Mark Frechette was cast after he was seen on the street arguing with someone on a balcony above him. D
Michelangelo Antonioni was quite appalled by what he perceived as American excess in the making of t [...] D
The house in the boulders was an actual house in Carefree, Arizona. The explosion of the house was d [...] D
The film initially grossed $900,000 on a budget of $7 million, making it one of the year's biggest b [...] D
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harr [...] D
Some scenes were actually shot at the real Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. D
"Fingals Cave", a piano piece composed by Richard Wright of Pink Floyd for the 'violent scene' went [...] D
Preceding M*A*S*H by one month in its release date, Zabriskie Point has the distinction of being the [...] D
Michelangelo Antonioni's original ending was a shot of an airplane sky-writing the phrase "Fuck You, [...] D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. D
Antonioni met with Jim Morrison during early production to ask for a musical contribution to the sou [...] D
Remembering the scoring sessions for this film, members of Pink Floyd later commented that Michelang [...] D
In real life, Mark Frechette led a counterculture life much like his character's in the film. Three [...] D
One hundred people participated in the orgy scene, half of them from Joseph Chaikin 's Open Theatre [...] D
Mark Frechette earned $60,000 for making the film. He donated his earnings to a commune. D