这是一部向意大利电影大师安东尼奥尼致敬的纪录片。1972年，年近60的米开朗基罗"安东尼奥尼（1912年9月29日—2007年7月30日）以其特有的理性和“日常的方式”纪录了《中国》。然而，这部纪录片却引发了一场中意外交事件和在中国持续了一年多的大规模的全国性批判运动。如今，纪录片《中国已远——安东尼奥尼与中国》不仅为我们留下了大师晚年的影像，同时也将当今的中国与32年前的中国穿插对应，为大师、也为我们留下了一份生命面貌流转的记忆。晚年的安东尼奥尼，专心于绘画，他的画与中国传统的山水画有着莫名的相似。大师说：“对于中国，我尊重，然后热爱。”在当下，世界急速发展着，许多值得珍视的东西慢慢变得不重要了，大师也逐渐淡出了人们的视线。然而，依然有一些人栖息在大师曾为他们营造的梦境里，久久不愿离去。当大师通过一部纪录片向我们走近的时候，《中国》却离我们越来越远。

这是一部向意大利电影大师安东尼奥尼致敬的纪录片。1972年，年近60的米开朗基罗"安东尼奥尼（1912年9月29日—2007年7月30日）以其特有的理性和“日常的方式”纪录了《中国》。然而，这部纪录片却引发了一场中意外交事件和在中国持续了一年多的大规模的全国性批判运动。如今，纪录片《中国已远——安东尼奥尼与中国》不仅为我们留下了大师晚年的影像，同时也将当今的中国与32年前的中国穿插对应，为大师、也为我们留下了一份生命面貌流转的记忆。晚年的安东尼奥尼，专心于绘画，他的画与中国传统的山水画有着莫名的相似。大师说：“对于中国，我尊重，然后热爱。”在当下，世界急速发展着，许多值得珍视的东西慢慢变得不重要了，大师也逐渐淡出了人们的视线。然而，依然有一些人栖息在大师曾为他们营造的梦境里，久久不愿离去。当大师通过一部纪录片向我们走近的时候，《中国》却离我们越来越远。

The Punto de Vista film festival invited a series of contemporary directors to make short film-letters, addressed to other directors they admired but had never met in person. Among others, Lynne Sachs wrote to Jean Vigo, Nicolás Pereda paid homage to Chantal Akerman and Alejo Moguillansky greeted Antonioni. Because cinema is also a way of connecting, getting to know each other and falling in love.

The Punto de Vista film festival invited a series of contemporary directors to make short film-letters, addressed to other directors they admired but had never met in person. Among others, Lynne Sachs wrote to Jean Vigo, Nicolás Pereda paid homage to Chantal Akerman and Alejo Moguillansky greeted Antonioni. Because cinema is also a way of connecting, getting to know each other and falling in love.

Quote: 　　By the time Michelangelo Antonioni released Michelangelo Eye to EyeBeyond the Clouds in 1995, his keen sense of patient, intimate observation had seemed to give way to a kind of leering, gratuitous voyeurism in the film's repeated, over-lingering shots of the female form. It is, however, precisely this painstaking attention to the voluptuousness of form and tactileness of surfaces that makes his subsequent short film, Michelangelo Eye to Eye particularly sensual and textural in its execution. Prefaced with a text description of the filmmaker's recent health problems (in particular, a debilitating stroke that left him partially paralyzed), the film opens with a shot of a frail Antonioni emerging from the shadows as he walks in slow, awkward gait into an unpopulated hall where Michelangelo Buonarotti's marble statue of Moses - a scaled down version of an ambitiously conceived wall tomb for Pope Julius II - is once again in display after a period of meticulous restoration. Composed of a series of detailed observations of the sculpture's composition from several camera angles and vantage points, Antonioni continually refocuses to the shot of Moses' opaque gaze - an image that is sublimely matched by the filmmaker's own occluded, returned gaze as he examines the object of his attention through limpid, watery eyes. In addition to creating a thorough, meticulous, and deliberative objective study of the Renaissance sculpture's robust physical form and timeless, universal beauty, Antonioni's juxtaposition of his own weakened, aging frame against the larger-than-life sculpture of Moses creates an indelible, thoughtful, and poignant image on human frailty, transience, creative compromise, and the enduring legacy of - and mortal transcendence through - enlightened art. 　　filmref.com

Quote: 　　By the time Michelangelo Antonioni released Michelangelo Eye to EyeBeyond the Clouds in 1995, his keen sense of patient, intimate observation had seemed to give way to a kind of leering, gratuitous voyeurism in the film's repeated, over-lingering shots of the female form. It is, however, precisely this painstaking attention to the voluptuousness of form and tactileness of surfaces that makes his subsequent short film, Michelangelo Eye to Eye particularly sensual and textural in its execution. Prefaced with a text description of the filmmaker's recent health problems (in particular, a debilitating stroke that left him partially paralyzed), the film opens with a shot of a frail Antonioni emerging from the shadows as he walks in slow, awkward gait into an unpopulated hall where Michelangelo Buonarotti's marble statue of Moses - a scaled down version of an ambitiously conceived wall tomb for Pope Julius II - is once again in display after a period of meticulous restoration. Composed of a series of detailed observations of the sculpture's composition from several camera angles and vantage points, Antonioni continually refocuses to the shot of Moses' opaque gaze - an image that is sublimely matched by the filmmaker's own occluded, returned gaze as he examines the object of his attention through limpid, watery eyes. In addition to creating a thorough, meticulous, and deliberative objective study of the Renaissance sculpture's robust physical form and timeless, universal beauty, Antonioni's juxtaposition of his own weakened, aging frame against the larger-than-life sculpture of Moses creates an indelible, thoughtful, and poignant image on human frailty, transience, creative compromise, and the enduring legacy of - and mortal transcendence through - enlightened art. 　　filmref.com

Sandro Lai compiled interviews, talk show appearances, and award presentations from Italian TV for this 2001 film chronicling most of the director's career. It hardly qualifies as in-depth analysis of either the man or his films, but it has a lot of historical flavor and some odd bits of trivia (Antonioni once visited John F. Kennedy in the White House to discuss a film about the projected moon landing). Apparently Antonioni shifted to color before much of Italian TV did, because the brief coverage here of Red Desert (1964), Blowup (1966), and Zabriskie Point (1969) is in black and white, and color arrives only with his disputed documentary about China. 58 min.