Antonioni in the morning

Red Desert
- The story of a distressed woman in a post-industrial landscape.
Today I feel like the distressed woman in these stills.

Zabriskie Point

And film soundtracks don't get any better than 1970's Zabriskie Point. Set in the sit-in centric world of late 60s California, Zabriskie Point aims for a complete disorientation of the senses. If the casting of photogenic unknowns Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin as the leads proved Antonioni's fondness for risk-taking, there would be no such gambles with the music. Having commissioned Pink Floyd to provide the soundtrack in late 1969, an unimpressed Antonioni included only three of their songs in the film - to give some idea of the quality of the rejected tunes, a re-titled Us And Them ended up on Dark Side Of The Moon.

Blow Up

"To say I was good or bad or not in an Antonioni film is like saying I like the colour yellow in a Van Gogh," wrote David Hemmings of his starring role in Blowup, and such a pithy description of the Italian director's methodology speaks volumes. For Antonioni, film wasn't about such minor considerations as plot, dialogue or character development; instead, it was about the big picture, allowing the viewer to glory in the surrealistic beauty of his chosen landscape. The perfect films to soundtrack, then.

Potential Halloween costume idea.