lunedì 14 febbraio 2022

Nailed by Zoë Kravitz

 "KIMI" is a brilliantly paced, no-nonsense gem from one of the best American filmmakers*.





Steven Soderbergh, KIMI, 2022

*https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kimi-movie-review-2022

giovedì 10 febbraio 2022

The end of boats, fish & fishermen in Mediterraneo

"a quickly-vanishing world






 Alex Camilleri, LUZZU, 2021

lunedì 7 febbraio 2022

Eastwood and Michelangelo



"The story is told that when Michelangelo was asked what he had seen in the one particular block of mar­ble, which he chose among hundreds of others, he replied that he saw Moses. I would offer the same answer to your question—only backwards. When they ask me what I ever saw in Clint East­wood, who was playing I don’t know what kind of second-rate role in a West­ern TV series in 1964, I reply that what I saw, simply, was a block of marble". 
Interview with Sergio Leone by Pete Hamill, 1984

mercoledì 2 febbraio 2022

Thanks to you Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael.
Yeah.
She's never said a good thing about me yet.
That dirty old broad.
But she's probably the most qualified critic in the world 'cause she cares about film and those that are involved in it.
Jerry Lewis


Pauline Kael 1919 - 2001


 Rob GarverWhat She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael, 2018

domenica 30 gennaio 2022

Ruan Lingyu: The Goddess victim of gossip





Ruan Lingyu (阮玲玉) (1910 – 1935)

Cai Chusheng, New Women (新女性/Xīn nǚxìng), 1935

mercoledì 26 gennaio 2022

Desperate fear for Iginio Lardani


Enzo G. Castellari, Gli occhi freddi della paura aka Deperate Moments or Cod Eyes of fear, 1971
Iginio Lardani trailer uncredited
Maestro Morricone soundtrack

domenica 23 gennaio 2022

CINEMA TRINACRIA - Blasetti, Kazan, Gallone, Cukor


 
Peccato che sia una canaglia
Alessandro Blasetti, 1954

Fronte del porto (On the Waterfront)
Elia Kazan, 1954

Cavalleria rusticana
Carmine Gallone, 1953

E' nata una stella (A Star is Born)
George Cukor, 1954