The City of Milan Department of Culture brings Emile de Antonio’s works to Italy for the first time

America Puzzle: The Cinema of Emile de Antonio
November 24 - 29, 2009

Screening times available from the Official Website

Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) was a documentary filmmaker that described the social reality of the United States leading the 60s to late 80s, and a key figure in four decades of American culture: Andy Warhol, who also did a movie with his character, said de Antonio "everything I learned about painting, I learned from him." His filmography paints a perfect portrait of America, its history and its protagonists.
The retrospective will be a premium - the first integral in Italy - to his work and his figure.

Titles include: POINT OF ORDER, IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG, RUSH TO JUDGEMENT, AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE, PAINTERS PAINTING, MILLHOUSE: A WHITE COMEDY, UNDERGROUND

In collaboration with: Film Library of Bologna, Ente Show Free Cinema, Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin.

More info about the new De Antonio Book “American Collage”

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PAINTERS PAINTING is now available for download from the iTUNES store in the United States!

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Originally released in 1973 but never before available on DVD, PAINTERS PAINTING is the definitive documentary on the New York School of painters, from 1940-1970.

Director Emile de Antonio (Point of Order and Millhouse) interviews artists in their studios about their art from the period of Abstract Expressionism, through Hard Edge and Color Field painting to Pop Art.

Among the featured painters are Robert Rauschenberg, William de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hoffman, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland.

PAINTERS PAINTING is newly digitally remastered and restored by the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the University of Wisconsin Film Department.

Cast: Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli, Helen Frankenthaler, Henry Geldzahler, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland

Extras: New Digital Transfer from the Original 35mm Print Negative
Emile de Antonio on Painters Painting
Doug Kellner's essay on American Art 1945-197

Technical: 116 Mins | 4:3 Letterbox | stereo | Color | Not Rated

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A radical leftist and legendary bon vivant, documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio made some of the most important and powerful films of the past century. In addition to innovative works such as Millhouse: A White Comedy, Underground and 1990 Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Mr. Hoover and I, Films of the Radical Saint includes the Oscar®-nominated* Vietnam War chronicle In the Year of the Pig, arguably his most controversial and de Antonio's personal favorite. This long-overdue collection of celebrated films amply shows why de Antonio is considered a revolutionary and inspirational figure in the development of post-war American cinema.


LENGTH:   368 minutes
LANGUAGE:   English
AUDIO FORMAT:   Dolby Digital 1.0 L/R
SUBTITLES:   English
DISCS:   3
FORMAT:   DVD
ASPECT RATIO:   1.33:1

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