Michelangelo Antonioni (1913 to 2007)

Less than 24 hours after Bergman copped it, it was Antonioni's turn now.

Can't put it better than Amit Varma, who says, "If I believed in God, I’d assume She was holding a film festival up in heaven." So true.

And of course, a couple of SMSes that came in almost immediately after I got the Google flash included blog-king Jabberwock's "Antonioni has died now. It is surely the end of the world. David Dhawan next."


Blow Up remains among the 50 greatest films I have ever seen - probably among the 30 best now that I think about it.