Mimmo Addabbo - Lolli,Ubaldo Vinci, Gianni Parlagreco,Catalfamo,Fabris, Valentino,Margareci,Crimi,Fano e i Sigilli
lunedì 6 aprile 2026
Miss Ethel Barrymore best movie
Old Ike Weber, a friend of my ma's, told me this.
As the bacon said to the egg:
Come disse la pancetta all'uovo:
martedì 7 gennaio 2025
会田 昌江 alias 原節子
HARA SETSUKO
(1920-2015)
By Tony
Rayns
ONE OF JAPAN’S BEST-LOVED FILMED ACTRESSES since
her teenage years, Hara Setsuko left the film industry in 1963 at the age of
forty-three—a few months after the death of Ozu Yasujiro, for whom she’d acted
memorably in six features. She withdrew completely from public life, living
outside Tokyo in Kamakura, refusing to be photographed and declining requests
for interviews. This Garbo-like retreat inevitably fostered a powerful
mystique, which endured until her death last September, itself kept secret by
her relatives for two months after her funeral. The Togeki Theater in Tokyo’s
Higashi-Ginza district happened to be presenting newly restored Ozu films in
the week her passing became known, and a large, uncaptioned photo of her was
posted front-of-house. The sixty-two-year-old image (from Ozu’s Tokyo
Story, 1953) alone was enough to trigger grief and nostalgia.
Much Japanese cinema of the 1930s was lost in the Allied
fire-bombing of Tokyo, but one of Hara’s earliest featured performances
miraculously survives. She plays the market stall-holder Onami in Yamanaka
Sadao’s excellent Kochiyama Soshun (1936), a young woman
worried about the increasing delinquency of her brother. It’s clear that she
was cast not only for her sweet-sixteen-ness (she seems credibly older), but
also because she responded to Yamanaka’s demand for a naturalistic acting
style, quite removed from the kabuki conventions that dominated period dramas
of the time. A year later she was cast in a then-prestigious Japanese-German
co-production as a young woman pushed away by her fiancé on his return from
Nazi Germany, and she went on to appear in several wartime propaganda films,
all designed to bolster the military government’s call for self-sacrifice and
loyalty to the codes of bushido, “the way of the warrior.”
Her reluctance to give interviews even during her heyday
leaves us unsure how Hara felt about the roles she was asked to play, but her
radiance in postwar Ozu and Naruse pictures—almost always playing unmarried
daughters, widows, or unhappy wives, internalizing unspoken emotional pain and
disappointment—suggests a high degree of consonance between her off-screen life
and feelings and her frequent on-screen roles. Like Ozu, Hara herself never
married. She chose to live alone after her early retirement; her countless
Japanese fans dubbed her “the eternal virgin,” partly because she had no
reported romantic attachments, partly because she made such a mark as Noriko,
the daughter who chooses to look after her widower father rather than get
married and move out in Ozu’s Late Spring (1949).
She was born Aida Masae, one of eight children in a Yokohama
family, and used family connections to get an acting contract with the
production company Nikkatsu in 1935, when she was just fifteen. (Her elder
sister was married to the then-leftist director Kumagai Hisatora, a Nikkatsu
employee.) We’ll never know what ambitions she had in her mid-teens, but she
would certainly have seen Japanese movies in which women protagonists, played
by the likes of Yamada Isuzu and Tanaka Kinuyo, protested loudly against the
social, moral, and economic constraints on women’s lives. The distinguished
Japanese critic Sato Tadao argues that Hara’s postwar status reflects her
embodiment of the silent sufferings of Japanese people in general as they
struggled to reconcile traditional values with the adjustment to
“modernization” under the US occupation.
Ozu and Naruse, in their formalized melodramas, used Hara’s smiling-through-adversity persona as a subtle signifier of hidden social pressures. Their slightly younger contemporary Kurosawa Akira, more comfortable with full-blown melodrama, had her star in two movies that plunged into the strains and contradictions of postwar life much more explicitly. In No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) she plays Yukie, the complacently bourgeois daughter of a liberal professor who is punished for his anti-war views in the ’30s; she has a torrid affair with an anti-war activist who dies in police custody and enters peacetime as a proudly dishevelled farmer, working to support her late partner’s peasant parents. And in The Idiot (1951), in which Kurosawa transposes Dostoyevsky’s novel to post-war Hokkaido, she plays Taeko (Dostoyevsky’s Nastasya), a kept woman since her mid-teens, who refuses to be ashamed of her past and mocks the various suitors who think they can buy her as a wife. These assertive, proto-feminist roles are the flip-side of Hara’s usual reticence; they hint at what lies behind her “eternal virgin” image. They also help us understand why Hara Setsuko was so revered in Japan, and around the world.
https://www.artforum.com/columns/tony-rayns-on-hara-setsuko-1920-2015-227761/
giovedì 4 maggio 2023
giovedì 21 aprile 2022
World full of inconsistencies
giovedì 25 febbraio 2021
Brutte donne e asfissiante lentezza
Abel Gance è riuscito a offrire un completo trattato dei suoi difetti e del pessimo gusto di tutto quello che i France i non riescono a rendere di gusto ottimo. Ci si vede persino una signora che tenta di uccidersi con un mazzo di fiori in braccio e dentro nascosto un revolver, che serve poi naturalmente ad accoppare un signore, altrettanto romantico, ma meno esperto di balistica. Vicende del più vieto psicologismo, brutte donne e asfissiante lentezza compiono il quadro di questo colossale pasticcio.
CINE-CONVEGNO ANNO II – 25 Luglio 1934 (XII)
giovedì 4 febbraio 2021
Grand Guignol annacquato
«SPIE
NELL' OMBRA» di Henrik
Galeen.
Questo
genere di film a brivido non può riuscire
a metà; e per di, più siamo talmente accorti
e sveltii nell'indovinare, che appena il dottor
Mabuse riesce ad imbrogliare le
nostre profezie!
Film discreto, ma
che s'immiserisce presto in una
fantasia troppo blanda e casalinga; grandguignol
all'acqua di rose.
CINE-CONVEGNO ANNO II – 25 Luglio 1934 (XII)
martedì 3 marzo 2020
Legge di guerra
giovedì 13 febbraio 2020
La bella di Lodi
mercoledì 5 febbraio 2020
Nero Pasolini
mercoledì 10 aprile 2019
Natural Born Killing
America is the only industrialized nation with a higher murder rate than countries ravaged by civil wars, like Cambodia or Nicaragua. There is an attempted murder every 3 minutes and murder victim every 20 minutes. Japan, England and West Germany with a combined population equal to America have 6,000 murders a year and America has 27,000 a year. https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/killing-america/
Opening with a juxtaposition of real-life footage of a man being shot to death by law enforcement and the flowing stars of the American flag. https://www.thefilmagazine.com/the-killing-of-america-1981-review/
"The project really was conceived by Leonard Schrader. It was his vision. He started it and he finished it. He didn't happen to direct it, because he wasn’t a director at the time". Shldon Renan https://thequietus.com/articles/21395-killing-of-america-interview
Nella foto Leonard Schrader con il pruliomicida di Santa Crus Ed Kemper http://www.leonardschrader.com/
lunedì 21 maggio 2018
Stile trascendentale e sua rappresentazione
lunedì 9 aprile 2018
Matter of style
Paul Schrader, Il trascendente nel cinema, Donzelli, 2002
lunedì 20 novembre 2017
A meadow in my perfect world
martedì 17 ottobre 2017
Acque smosse: dedicato a Gino Mauro e Pompeo Oliva
lunedì 21 agosto 2017
mercoledì 26 aprile 2017
Gli dei sono dei, gli uomini sono uomini
giovedì 16 marzo 2017
giovedì 11 febbraio 2016
天国と地獄 Tengoku to jigoku
Qui ci si riferisce alla visione originale con sottotitoli della durata di due ore e ventitre minuti rispetto all’edizione italica di un’ora e quarantaquattro seppure con un pregevole doppiaggio d’epoca.
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