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Pink Floyd's originally theme "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" was included in his album "Ummagumma" released the 17 December of 1968. The group re-recorded the track, in the key of E minor instead of the original D minor in 1969, for the Antonioni's Zabriskie Point film. «The explosion apparently represents the psychological separation from corporate greed, superficiality, and racial injustice.» New York Times - February 10, 1970









An Italian in California: a technical masterpiece with sub-par substance, 19 September 2004
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066601/

Author: doctorlightning from United States
There aren't too many times when I see a film and go, "huh, what?", but this was one of them. Maybe after seeing Zabriskie Point I felt much the same way Woody Allen felt after seeing 2001- he only liked the film after seeing it three times over a two year period, realizing the filmmaker was ahead of him in what was going on. Michelangelo Antonioni, in one of his few tries at making films inside of the US (after Red Desert, he did Blow-Up, this film, China, and The Passenger, all filmed outside his native Italy), I could sense he almost tried to learn about the ways of the country through his own mastery of the medium. The results show that he doesn't lack the means to present images, feelings, tones, colors, sounds, and a visual representation of this era. "A director's job is to see", Antonioni once stated. Whatever that means, he doesn't disappoint for the admirer of his post-fifties work (I say post-fifties since I've yet to see any of his films from before L'Avventura)...