{"id":122,"date":"2007-08-01T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-08-01T09:38:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T16:38:05","slug":"bergman-antonioni-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Bergman, Antonioni Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deaths of these two maestros got me thinking. Do young people today watch their films or even know who they are? A friend of a friend teaches a film course at a prestigous art college, according to him students are not that interested in classic Cinema from the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s. They barely know Fellini let alone Antonioni. Although he reports that there seems to be a lot of interest in Kubrick among film students. Also a lot of young people find these art films boring, not just Antonioni but Truffaut and Godard as well! And I&#8217;m not talking about dumb people, these are college educated young professionals. To make matters worse there&#8217;s an article in the NY Times today lamenting the lack of Antonioni titles on DVD. So even if people want to see his films, they can&#8217;t. When I was a young cinephile these two were Titans on the horizon of Film. Are people less interested in intellectually challenging films? Is this a symptom of the dumbing down of world culture? Only Time will Tell.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ilgrido-748219.jpg' title='ilgrido-748219.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ilgrido-748219.jpg' alt='ilgrido-748219.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <em>The powerful presence of Steve Cochran graces an early Antonioni effort &#8220;Il Grido&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deaths of these two maestros got me thinking. Do young people today watch their films or even know who they are? A friend of a friend teaches a film course at a prestigous art college, according to him students are not that interested in classic Cinema from the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s. They barely know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}