Zabriskie Point Page #4

Synopsis: An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot)...
Genre: Drama
Production: MGM
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
R
Year:
1970
113 min
1,165 Views


The name of a place.

Or a river

The river "at-any-rate"

- Hey! Look what I've found!

- Uhm, well done

- What's that thing? Chalk?

- It isn't salt.

- Do you want to come with me?

- Where?

Anywhere I'm going

Are you asking seriously?

Are you answering seriously?

They should build a drive-in here.

It'd be a business

Why don't you do it?

Should I? Oh!

- Something wrong?

- No,I was going to the toilet

Where's your car?

I forgot it down there,

together with my chequebook, credit card,

insurance policy, birth certificate and...

Goodbye

What's wrong with you?

Are you crazy?

Is it loaded?

No

- Are you looking for water?

- I'm buring it

Why did you ask me about the strike?

Were you there?

The guy who killed the agent...

No. I wanted to do it,

but someone else did it.

- But they said...

- Who said? - The radio.

I never shot a bullet

You could need it.

It'll be difficult to persuade them

I don't even think about it

Why? I believe you

Let's go back to the car

Let's go away from here. If you cut your hair,

who is going to recognize you?

Do you think I should cut my hair?

No, you look very nice

Maybe they'll think it's not an airplane

Strange prehistoric bird flies over the Mojave desert,

with the balls hanging

I think you're crazy flying

this thing back to Los Angeles

Of course. You cannot steal a private plane,

use it as you want,

and then don't go back and thank.

It's nice to see

a young man showing some respect

- It's beautiful. Great Grand'pa.

- Of course it's beautiful

Do you really think,

you'll make it?

I'll just land at the end of the runway,

far from the tower,

From there I'll make it. I'll run to the city,

before they realize what happened

Why do you have to take it back?

You can come with me to Phoenix,

- Why do you need to take this chance?

- I like to risk.

- Well, it's beautiful, isn't it?

- Yes, it is.

- Did you use the plane often?

- Yes.

Are you insured

against damage and stealing?

Yes, of course. It's a small plane,

but not cheap at all, you know

My wife liked it a lot.

I painted it her favorite color, pink

- Did you talk to the young man?

- Yes, I did.

And what did he say?

Well, he asked me to go for a ride,

it seemed that the plane was his own

Did you believe him?

No.

- Well, then why did you let him go away?

- I don't know.

Do you remember how he was dressed?

He was wearing a T-shirt,

and long hair.

- How old do you think he was?

- Mah, 30. Maybe less, 20. 21

The 4H Club has organized a sport

sunday at the Schoneberg school stadium

A rodeo will take place, and there'll be

horses, dust and fun for everyone

and quite a lot of ice cream, I'm sure

Here Lilly 7 is on sight,

coming from north:

it's approaching the landing runway

Received

Take-offs are suspended.

Incoming planes stay on hold

KHT759. Here's KHT652.

Do you copy?

KHT652 to KHT759. You'd have to see it,

you wouldn't believe your eyes

- What's going on? - Nothing, they just

enjoyed themself painting it everywhere.

Call an ambulance

Give me a tool to open it

The attempt of aerial piracy

reached a tragic end this morning

The episode happended when the police, after trying

to block the plane with no results,

had to open the fire.

Several shots from an unidentified

agent reached the cockpit

The young man inside died on the spot.

Stay tuned for more details

Our program goes on with John Payne

- Why, what was he looking like?

- Don't ask her

If this evening I get drunk,

I'll tell you everything

You know, there's nothing

to do this evening

Hello?

It's for you

Hello? hi, she said

she'll be here in a moment

Another time

- Do you need a light?

- Yes, thanks.

It's really interesting,

what Nicky said. It seems,

she was here by the swimming-pool,

she saw everything

Dear Larry,

if these are your last conditions,

I can't see how I could possibly

present them to my partners

Your proposal is unacceptable

Listen Jack, you know very well

that the price of something

is neither high nor low when it's not

related to its potential use

Right? - Yes.

The only question here is: does this

ground have a value to you?

Honestly,

I don't think it has any.

And we don't want to commit

ourselves more than you do

He talks about potential use.

This is speculation

Why should I accept

speculation prices?

Don't you think they'll come?

What do you think?

Should we hold on?

Daria!

Hey

What happended to you?

Did you fall in the swimming-pool?

Anyway, you're here now,

it's the only thing that counts

Listen up, Now you go downstairs,

and change your dress

Your room is the first on the right,

at the end of the staircase

It's obvious that this area has got

lots of development possibilities,

such as a beach, a lake, where you can live

quietly, as you please...

...and comfortably

I must say that this business

makes me enthusiastic, but...

Maybe we'll end up finding

gold on this property

If we find water, we'll also find gold for sure

In this country, water is gold

Water, electrification,

the landing runway, roads

the arrangement of beaches and all the

other subsidiary equipment

are only details of our general project.

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Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story author. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities".Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1960, 1962), Palme d'Or (1966), and 35th Anniversary Prize (1982); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion (1955), Golden Lion (1964), FIPRESCI Prize (1964, 1995), and Pietro Bianchi Award (1998); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995. He is one of three directors to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear, and the only director to have won these three and the Golden Leopard. more…

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