Douglas Sirk meets Willa Cather through William Faulkner

- What are you reading?
- One of your books.
- My Antonia by Willa Cather.
- Nostalgia in Nebraska. Lost farms and faded loves.
 
- Che state leggendo?
- Uno dei vostri libri.
- La mia Antonia di Willa Cather.
- Nostalgia del Nebraska. Terre perdute e amori svaniti.
 Doulas Sirk, The Tarrnished Angels (Il trapezio della vita), 1955

Shane MacGowan & The Maestro

 by Shane MacGowan 

“Our idea of New York was based on movies like Once Upon A Time In America, which we were obsessed with,” explains MacGowan. “We borrowed a lot from the soundtrack of that film.

 “We were listening to so much other stuff. We were watching for example, the movie Once Upon a Time in America. It was a great band favourite and it had, as with most Sergio Leone movies, a great soundtrack by Ennio Morricone.

“There were elements of that music that we felt we wanted to explore and it influenced the beginning, the ballad part of Fairytale of New York, the sort of crooner section.

“What we essentially did was we wrote a sort of drunk version of an Ennio Morricone thing.”

“We used to watch Once Upon A Time In America on a loop when we were on tour. That must have had some kind of effect somewhere. 

Once upon a time a crew

Taormina summer 1985

Nastri d'argento awards to

Once Upon a Time in America

Carlo Simi set designer, Tonino Delli Colli cinematographer

Ennio Morricone music, Sergio Leone director

L. Mittiga photo

 

Metti una sera a Taormina

Maestro Morricone in Taormina

Teatro Greco, summer 1985

Photo L. Mittiga

 

Pina Bausch in Palermo

Pina Bausch

Palermo 1989 - 1990

Foto Mittiga

 

Raúl Ruiz without camera

 Raúl Ruiz Pino 1941 - 2011

in Fiumara d'Arte, Castel di Lucio - Messina, 1993

(foto Luigi Mittiga, pellicola scaduta, la preferita)

Standoff Mexicano

 

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Escape From L.A. (1996)
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (1966)
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008)
Shoot Em Up (2007)
Face/Off (1997)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (2011)
The Killer (1989)
Corky Romano (2001)
RoboCop (1987)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Assassins (1995)
Hitman (2007)
The Boondocks Saints II (2009)
City On Fire (1987)
Repo Man (1984)
Paycheck (2003)
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
The Way Of The Gun (2000)
Enemy Of The State (1998)
Takers (2010)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Die Hard (1988)
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Training Day (2001)
The Mummy (1999)
Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Date Night (2010)
True Romance (1993)
Munich (2005)
The Untouchables (1987)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
The Rock (1996)
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Anchorman (2004)

Video by Andy Schneider & Jonathan Britnell for Burger Fiction: http://www.burgerfiction.com