L’Avventura: It is one of filmdom’s great synchronicities that Michelangelo Antonioni unveiled L’Avventura (Criterion, $27.59 Blu-ray, $26.96 DVD) the same year Alfred Hitchcock unleashed Psycho. These films, released in 1960, challenged cinematic conventions in similar ways by dispatching their ostensible protagonists within the first third of the movie, causing narrative … [Read more...]