Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni has died aged 94.
His first full-length feature film Cronaca di un amore appeared in 1950, and he made his big impact on modern avangarde art with uncredible movies like Blowup (1966), The Passenger(1975) and the trilogy L’avventura (1960), La Notte (1961) and L’eclisse (1962).
But in the history of Rock, Antonioni’s name is mainly related withВ his first film set in America – Zabriskie Point (1970).
Its soundtrack incorporated such popular artists as Pink FLoyd, the Gratefuld Dead, and the Rolling Stones.
In 1985 Antonioni suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak.
InВ 1995 Wim Wenders filmed interludes for his Beyond the Clouds (1995), but they were mostly rejected by Antonioni at the editing stage.
The beach sequence and the last sequence, however, remained in the final cut.
In 1996, Antonioni was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award. It was presented to him by Jack Nicholson.
The funeral will then take place in the director’s home town of Ferrara, north-eastern Italy, on Thursday.