giovedì 26 agosto 2021

Lana Turner Coney Island 1947-1959


 Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life (Lo specchio della vita), 1959

mercoledì 18 agosto 2021

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 SirkThe Tarrnished Angels (Il trapezio della vita), 1955

venerdì 6 agosto 2021

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. 

venerdì 30 luglio 2021

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

 

sabato 24 luglio 2021

Metti una sera a Taormina


Maestro Morricone in Taormina
Teatro Greco, summer 1985
Photo L. Mittiga

 

mercoledì 14 luglio 2021

Pina Bausch in Palermo




Pina Bausch
Palermo 1989 - 1990
Foto Mittiga





 

lunedì 5 luglio 2021

Raúl Ruiz without camera


 Raúl Ruiz Pino 1941 - 2011
in Fiumara d'Arte, Castel di Lucio - Messina, 1993