It has just been announced that legendary Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni has died at age 94. The controversial filmmaker died on the same day as another iconic symbol of European cinema: Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Although Antonioni made relatively few films in his career, those he did bring to the screen are still steeped in controversy- most notably his first English language film, Blow Up. The 1966 release was among the most stylish films ever made and perfectly captured the "mod period" of London during that era. The story was thin on dialogue but heavy on symbolism as it recounted the efforts of a young fashion photographer to discern whether he has accidentally photographed an actual murder. It's ambiguous ending is still widely debated today. The film was a big box-office hit and catapulted Antonioni into an international firestorm regarding his use of groundbreaking sexual images and situations. His 1969 film about the hippie culture, Zabreksie Point was roundly panned and dismissed as an expensive and pretentious bomb. He would never recapture the sensationalism caused by Blow Up but his 1975 drama The Passenger starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Scneider is considered by many critics to be a classic. Click here for critic Roger Ebert's tribute to the filmmaker