The Short List of Things to Do

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Red Desert

red desert

red desert

Everett Collection

The gorgeous-ghastly Abstract Expressionism of the Gulf oil plumes has its 1964 movie equivalent in the polluted skies over Ravenna, Italy, in Michelangelo Antonioni's first color feature. Monica Vitti is the leading lady, but industrial blight is the eerie, ever watchable star.

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