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Michel's hitting his feature film stride now transferring prolific MV work rate to the big screen, with his next imminent: Be Kind Rewind starring Jack Black and Mos Def. Rather than quirky rom-com a la The Science of Sleep, he's gone for all-out absurd comedy. Same kind of strategy Linklater used with Black on School of Rock. So he's going for commercial success as well as critical acclaim now... Trailer looks more than promising.

Just read Michelangelo Antonioni has died aged 94 on the same day as another cinematic great, Ingmar Bergman, aged 89. A dark day for 'intellectual cinema' as the NYT has it. Where has the cinema for the cineastes gone?

I had the pleasure of listening to Antonioni at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival for one of his later films, Beyond the Clouds, with John Malkovich. It was still like nothing else in the festival, even if it wasn't up there with his greats, and favourites of mine like Blowup, Zabriski Point, or The Red Desert. After receiving a standing ovation, everyone was rapt, intent at gleaning the words of this legendary artist. It was electrifying to be in his presence.