Color, the new dimension

Color film had been around for decades before Antonioni shot his first color feature, Red Desert, in 1964, using Technicolor. He switched to Metrocolor for Blowup, Zabriskie Point, and The Passenger. I consulted Steve Neale’s 1985 essay “Technicolor” (from Color, The Film Reader by Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price) for some history on the [...]