Zabriskie Point (DVD)

Zabriskie Point (DVD) Description

As a postcard from a bygone era, Michelangelo Antonionis sole American movie is amazing to look at. This was the Italian directors first film since his English-language breakthrough Blowup (1966), which had been a masterpiece that captivated general and art-house audiences alike. Expectations understandably ran high, and as a visual experience Zabriskie Point delivered. Here was this foreigners eye, among the most distinctive in world cinema, looking at city and desert, streets and backroads, office towers, mini-marts, police cars, airfields, and nonstop signage--the textures of U.S. life transliterated into something alien and askew. Revisited decades later, thats the aspect of Zabriskie Point that comes fascinatingly to the fore.