New Arrival L’Eclisse (#278)

The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonionis informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (followingLavventuraandLa notte),Leclissetells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary by film scholar Richard Pea
• Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema(2001), a documentary exploring the directors life and career
• Elements of Landscape,a piece from 2005 about Antonioni andLeclisse,featuring Italian film critic Adriano Apr and longtime Antonioni friend Carlo di Carlo
• PLUS: Essays by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Gilberto Perez, as well as excerpts from Antonionis writing about his work

  Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang