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From Reuters:
His deliberately slow-moving and oblique movies were not always crowd-pleasers but films such as “L’Avventura” made Antonioni’s work a touchstone for directors like Martin Scorsese, who has described him as a poet with a camera.
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Critics of film would certainly realize that there may something more nuanced to filmmaking than pandering to crowd-pleasing, right? So why mention it? Or is Antonioni’s career redeemed by the fanhood of Scorsese, who has a special phone reserved to call only Leonardo DiCaprio?