lunedì 27 settembre 2021

Cinema on Screen - Ozu, Kinoshita & Dmytryck



Yasujirô Ozu風の中の牝鶏 (Kaze no naka no mendori) - A Hen in the Wind - Una gallina nel vento (1948)
William Dieterle, Love Letters, Gli amanti del sogno, 1945


Keisuke Kinoshita花咲く港 Hana saku minato -  Port of Flowers, 1943
George Stevens, Gunga Din, 1939



Edward Dmytryk, The Sniper, Nessuno mi salverà, 1952
Fred F. Sears, Raiders of Tomahawk Creek, 1950

lunedì 20 settembre 2021

EASTWOOD IS GOD


 EASTWOOD IS GOD
 Conner “Haf“ MacLeod
 Temple City, Calif.


IN A WORLD WHERE A SINGLE ARTISTS Vision is increasingly blurred in a storm of art-by-committee, it is refreshing to read about Clint Eastwood [“Any Which Way He Can,“ April]. Time has vindicated him
for sticking by his guns and for his vision of himself as an artist. He doesn’t even stoop to telling his critics, “I told you so !" He lets the results do that for him. Let`s hope we all see a lot more of him before he
decides to ride off into the sunset.
 Bart Summer
 North Hollywood, Calif.


IT IS REALLY AMAZING THAT TWENTY YEARS ago, most critics viewed Eastwood's acting as stiff and hopelessly wooden and his films as incessantly violcent exercises of redneck fascism. Now the same intellectually constipated, artistically myopic sycophants have anointed him the new god of American cinema. Thanks for taking decades to find out what his fans have known all along: Eastwood is a major talent to be reckoned with.

R. D. Myers
Kansas City, Mo.

PREMIERE JULY 1993
READER RESPONSE, LETTERS

giovedì 16 settembre 2021

Geisha's lie




A geisha's lie is not a real lie.
It's a cornerstone of our profession.
Do we not amuse our clients by agreeing to all their requests?
 
La bugia di una geisha non è una vera bugia.
E’ un caposaldo della nostra professione.
Non divertiamo i nostri clienti acconsentendo a tutte le loro richieste?

KOGURE Michiyo, MIZOGUCHI Kenji, A Geisha (祇園囃子Gion Bayashi, La musica di Gion), 1953
 

martedì 14 settembre 2021

Mizoguchi Kenji set in Gion


MIZOGUCHI Kenji director - KAZUO Miyagawa cinematographer


MIZOGUCHI Kenji - KOGURE Michiyo - WAKAO Ayako



 WAKAO Ayako - KOGURE Michiyo 


KOGURE Michiyo - WAKAO Ayako

Mizoguchi Kenji, A Geisha (祇園囃子Gion Bayashi, La musica di Gion), 1953


Mizoguchi Kenji 溝口 健二,1898 –  1956

Miyagawa Kauzo 宮川 一夫, 1908 -1999

Kogure Michiyo, 木暮 実千代 1918 -1990

Wakao Ayako, 若尾 文子1933

giovedì 9 settembre 2021

Cinema on Screen - from Yasujirô Ozu to Wim Wenders


Yasujirô.Ozu 東京暮色 (Tōkyō boshoku, Tokyo Twilight, Crepuscolo di Tokyo), 1957

Sheldon Reynolds, Foreign Intrigue, Spionaggio internazionale, 1956

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Yasujirô Ozu 早春 (Soshun, Early Spring, Inizio primavera) 1956

Julien Duvivier, Marianne de ma jeunesse, Marianne of My Youth,1955


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Wim WendersDie Angst des Tormanns beim ElfmeterThe Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty KickLa paura del portiere prima del calcio di rigore), 1972
Donald Siegel, Madigan, Nur noch 72 stunden, Squadra omicidi, sparate a vista!, 1968
Martin Ritt, The Brotherhood, La fratellanza, 1968


Kirk Douglas & Michele Cimarosa, The Brotherhood



 Michele Cimarosa
Messina 1933 - 1933