Di Palma, Carlo 1925-2004

Deconstructing Harry Harry dans tous ses états by Woody Allen ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1996 and 2000 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide
Harry is a writer in late middle age who has never really grown up. He has had three wives and several lovers and has no inspiration to write his latest book, spending the advance for it from his publisher.

Blow up ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1966 and 2004 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide
Thomas, a young photographer in 'swinging' London, finds that he may have photographed a murder. As in several of his other films (L'Avventura and Passenger for example), Antonioni uses the narrative structure of the detective story while changing its intent. Nothing is discovered in the course of the narrative which is diverted from the search for an elusive image and finally loses itself. Objects assume a life of their own. Personal relationships become so attenuated that they virtually disappear. Thomas' confidence in his perception of reality, always tenuous, finally collapses. Antonioni uses spatial depth and appearances to question the viewer's sense of what is real and what is not.

Husbands and wives = Maris et femmes by Woody Allen ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide
"Woody Allen dépeint les travers de ses semblables, avec ici pour toile de fond, la vie de couple et la durée des sentiments."

Alice ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1991 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 16 libraries worldwide
Comedy about a rich and spoiled New York housewife in a bad marriage. She dreams of having an affair with a musician she met at her children's school! An acupuncturist she visits in Chinatown gives her mysterious potions that break down her inhibitions, make her invisible and let her see tender moments with loved ones from her past.

Il Deserto rosso Red desert ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1964 and 2000 in Italian and held by 16 libraries worldwide
Antonioni's first color film depicts a woman traumatized by an auto accident who finds herself permanently alienated in her urban milieu.

Divorzio all'italiana ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in Italian and held by 15 libraries worldwide
Baron Fefé Cefalé is a Sicilian nobleman bored of life and of wife Rosalia: he falls in love with young and beautiful cousin Angela, who spends summers in the same palace. Since divorce is impossible in Italy in the 1960s, he decides to kill the wife, knowing that sentence would be very light if he proved that he committed murder for a matter of honour, i.e. when he found the wife together with another man. Therefore, he starts finding a lover for Rosalia, using Carmelo Patané, a painter well-known by her.

Die rote Wüste ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1964 and 2008 in Italian and German and held by 14 libraries worldwide

Christmas concert ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide

Radio days ( Visual )
10 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 13 libraries worldwide
A look back at radio from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, focusing on an extended Jewish family, all avid radio listeners, and on young woman who eventually succeeds as a radio gossip columnist.

Hannah y sus hermanas Hannah and her sisters ( Visual )
14 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 6 libraries worldwide
Tres hermanas de diferentes caracteres, hijas de un maduro matrimonio de actores, tienen vidas entrelazadas. La hermana mayor, Hannah, es la de carácter más fuerte. Casada con un rico empresario, a menudo paga las facturas de sus dos hermanas menores. Holly, la segunda, es la más sensible y sueña con convertirse en actriz. Por último se encuentra Lee, que vive en una buhardilla del Soho con un pintor minimalista.