By the 1960s, Michelangelo Antonioni had become a lodestar of arthouse cinema, his name synonymous with existential alienation and modernist formalism. His reputation transcended cinephile circles, even permeating pop culture: the 1968 countercultural musical *Hair* name-dropped him in its lyrics, cementing his status as a Boomer-era icon. This acclaim peaked with *Blow-Up* (1966), a defining portrait of Swinging Lo…More
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