After the cataclysmic oatmeal war of prehistory: reconsidering Zabriskie Point

Now considered a cult film, Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 film, Zabriskie Point, was a huge commercial flop, costing $7 million to make — a huge sum back then — and grossing less than $1 million in its brief theatrical run. The director of the very successful Blow Up , his first of three English-language films, had blown up at the box office.

The film also literally — as “literal” as a fantasy sequence can be in any film, especially this one — blew up at the end, as this clip of the final scene depicts: (more…)