That Bowling Alley on the Tiber - Tales of a Director - Michelangelo Antonioni

That Bowling Alley on the Tiber - Tales of a Director - Michelangelo Antonioni / ISBN 9798986446363 / a 182-page hardback, 6 x 8 inches, published in 2025 by Film Desk Books

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“I’m a director who writes, not a writer.”—Michelangelo Antonioni

Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or “narrative nuclei,” each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didn’t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique glimpse into Antonioni’s mind and cinematic point of view.