Susan Sontag in 1969 - Cannibal or Tarantola

Io veggio ben come ti tira
uno e altro disio, sí che tua cura

se stessa lega sí che fuor non spira.

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, canto IV

While preparing [the] second version of the script [Duet for Cannibals] I was also choosing the locations and completing the casting. Agneta Ekmanner, who plays Ingrid, had already agreed to take part in the film in May, during my first, brief visit to Stockholm, when I only had a rough idea of the story in my head. I had asked Adriana Asti to be in the film in July, when I was in Rome, and the part of Francesca was written for her. Gösta Ekman, who plays Tomas, and Lars Ekborg, who plays Bauer, were cast in September.
Filming took place on locations in and around Stockholm in October and November, over a period of six weeks. We had thirty-four shooting days. The film was shot in black and white 35mm film with one Arriflex camera; all the dialogue and most of the effects were recorded direct with a Nagra. Since Duet for Cannibals was, as the expression goes, edited in camera, the actual editing, done in February and March 1969, went fairly smoothly. The first screening was at the Cannes Film Festival, under the auspices of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, in May 1969.
Susan Sontag, Duett för kannibaler, 1969

American [Splendor] in Comics

The words, the pictures, they could be more of an art form.

You know, like those French movies... or De Sica over in Italy.

Parole, disegni, possono essere più che una forma d'arte.

Sai, come quei film francesi... o De Sica là in Italia.

American Splendor,  Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini 
& Paul Giamatti, Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb, 2003

 

 

A shark if it walks out of the water

You might wanna go easy on the sharks.
Why?
Don't scare the tourists.
The rule is, it's a shark if it walks out of the water, stops traffic, and bites a cop.
If they're just swimming , call them fish.
Okay. Fish-infested waters.
 
Dovresti andarci caIma con gIi squaIi.
Perché?
Non spaventare i turisti.
La regoIa è: è uno squaIo se esce daII'acqua e morde un poIiziotto.
Se nuotano soIamente intorno, si chiamano pesci.
Ok. ''Acque infestate da pesci.''

Sidney Pollack, Absence of Malice (Diritto di cronaca), 1981

 

The rich win, the poor are powerless. We become... tired of hearing people lie.

Well ...
You know, so much of the time, we're just lost.
We say "Please, God ... tell us what is right, tell us what is true."
I mean, there is no justice.
The rich win, the poor are powerless.
We become... tired of hearing people lie.
And after a time we become dead.
A little dead. We think of ourselves ... as victims. And we become victims.
We become... we become weak.
We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions.
And we doubt the law.
But today you are the law. You are the law.
Not some book, not the lawyers.
Not a marble statue ... or the trappings of the court.
See, those are just symbols ... of our desire ... to be just.
They are ... they are, in fact, a prayer.
I mean, a fervent and a frightened prayer.
In my religion ... they say "Act as if ye had faith ... and faith will be given to you."
If ... if we are to have faith in justice ... we need only to believe in ourselves ... and act with justice.
See, I believe there is justice in our hearts.
 
Bene …
Per la maggior parte del tempo siamo smarriti.
Chiediamo: "Ti prego, Signore, indicaci cos'è giusto, qual è la verità".
Non c'è giustizia.
I ricchi vincono e i poveri sono impotenti.
Siamo stanchi di sentire menzogne.
E cominciamo a morire dentro. A morire un po'.
Pensiamo a noi stessi come a delle vittime. E lo diventiamo.
Diventiamo ... Diventiamo deboli.
Dubitiamo di noi stessi, e di ciò in cui crediamo. Dubitiamo delle istituzioni.
E dubitiamo della legge.
Ma oggi siete voi la legge. Siete voi la legge.
Non un manuale o un avvocato. Non una statua di marmo, o gli emblemi della corte.
Quelli sono solo simboli del nostro desiderio di essere giusti.
Sono una preghiera. Una preghiera fervente e impaurita.
Nella mia religione si dice: "Agisci come se avessi fede, e fede ti sarà data".
Se per avere fede nella giustizia dobbiamo solo credere in noi stessi, e agire con giustizia.
Credo che ci sia giustizia nei nostri cuori.
 
Sidney Lumet/ David Mamet/Paul Newman, The Verdict (Il verdetto), 1982

木下惠介 映画本 - Kinoshita Keisuke film book

Directed by 

木下惠介 Kinoshita Keisuke

1912 - 1998

one of the most prolific postwar directors at Shochiku’s Ofuna studios, 

producing 42 films in 23 years

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E4%B8%8B%E6%83%A0%E4%BB%8B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keisuke_Kinoshita

 

鬼畜 [The Demon] 1978 - 出典: フリー百科事典 French Connection II] 1975

野村 芳太郎 Yoshitarō Nomura 鬼畜, The Demon, 1978

本名 John Frankenheimer, 出典: フリー百科事典『ウィキペディア, French Connection II, 1975

岩下志麻, Iwashita Shima

緒形 明伸 Ken Ogata

本名はユージーン・アレン・ハックマン Gene Hackman

1967: Cassio, Iago, Roderigo, PPP, Otello

From left to right: 

Franco Franchi (1928 - 992), Totò (1898 - 1967) Ciccio Ingrassia (1922 - 2003),

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 - 1975), Ninetto Davoli (1948)

 

若松孝二 会う 塞吉歐·李昂尼 - Koji Wakamatsu meet Sergio Leone

 Screenshot from: 現代好色伝　テロルの季節 Season of Terror (1969) Koji Wakamatsu

狂沙十萬里 1968年12月21日: Diecimila miglia di sabbie selvagge

Aka C'era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West

导演 direttore 塞吉歐·李昂尼: Sergio Leone

编剧 sceneggiatori:   

達利歐·阿基多 Dario Argento

柏納多·貝托魯奇 Bernardo Bertolucci

謝爾吉歐·多納蒂 Sergio Donati

配乐 Colonna sonora:  恩尼奥·莫里科内 Ennio Morricone

摄影  fotografia:  東尼諾·戴笠·寇利 Tonino Delli Colli 

剪辑 montaggio:  尼諾·巴拉利 Nino Baragli

克勞蒂雅·卡汀娜 Claudia Cardinale - 吉尔·麦克贝恩（Jill McBain）

亨利·方达 – Henry Fonda 弗兰克（Frank）

贾森·罗巴兹 – Jason Robards 夏安（Cheyenne）

查爾斯·布朗森 – Charles Bronson 哈莫尼克（Harmonica）

Mikio Naruses's sureness

Naruse’s method consists of building one very brief shot on top of another, but when you look at them all spliced together in the final film, they give the impression of a single long take. The flow is so magnificent that the splices are invisible. This flow of short shots that looks calm and ordinary at first glance then reveals itself to be like a deep river with a quiet surface disguising a fast-raging current underneath. The sureness of his hand in this was without comparison.

Akira Kurosawa, 1980

https://akirakurosawa.info/2015/08/20/110-years-ago-today-mikio-naruse-born/

In apertura Akira Kurosawa e Mikio Naruse

 
 

L'avventura: yesterday and today locations

Schisina, village of Francavilla di Sicilia in the Province of Messina, Italy

Screenshot from Michelangelo Antonioni L'avventura (1960)

Today's photo Sandro Messina

Gino Paoli, Anche se, sung Ornella Vanoni, Ennio Morricone arrangement and orchestra.

Le dernier des maîtres

 

J-L G

1930 - 2022

ne reste que

Mozart, Dostoïevski... Bresson

"Robert Bresson est le cinéma français, comme Dostoïevski est le roman russe et Mozart, c'est de la musique allemande". Jean-Luc Godard

 

The Big Nation

John Ford, Rio Grande,1950
 

Werner Hochbaum, director, (1899 - 1946)

 Werner Hochbaum, Razzia in St. Pauli, 1932. Camera: A. O. Weitzenberg