Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Week After Period Pink Mucus

Mamma Roma (1961) Pier Paolo Pasolini


Violino
Tzigane.

"His appearance almost terrifying, and when it is not so annoyingly miserable. Horrible, fur, manes cartoonish, pale complexions, lost eyes. Initiation masks are barbaric, barbarous miserably. Or are masks diligent and unconscious integration not pity. " Pasolini's cinema has always been a film of faces. Faces of misery and poverty in the Roman suburbs Accatone (1960) , faces of love and drama Mama Romm (1961) , holy and human face in The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) , face of mystery and the Theorem enigmatic, funny and political face Pajaritos and Pajarracos (1961) , faces myth in Oedipus Rex (1967) and Medea (1969) face of depravity and terror in Salo or 120 Days of Sodom (1975) .
In Mamma Roma will be the face of a prostitute (Anna Magnini) and his son Ettore (Etore Garulfo) that show us the harsh and stark reality of post-war Italian society. But while it shares features Passolini neorealist heritage, away from Rossellini or De Sica, in Mamma Roma Accatone or there is a clear awareness formalist aesthetic that transcends the mere impression of reality. Mamma Roma
not let it be the melodrama of a prostitute who tries to escape his past to try to give wayward and rebellious child a better future. But Ettore, however hard they try his mother, is a character that could well come from the Roman slums Accatone, without hope or illusion, stigmatized for life, any attempt to change appears unrealistic and impossible, the only way out of these disinherited, is crime and idleness.
However despite this marginality, Pasolini creates moments of intense poetic naturalism, as the sequences of trips by Ettore open field near his new home, where he confronted the past, rural peasants and has almost completely disappeared, represented by the ruins and monoliths and the present, capitalist and proletarian with modern buildings of the Roman suburbs. Italian director felt a deep distress and dissolution of depopulation of rural areas due to the massive migration of peasants into new factories, because the traditional world of values \u200b\u200brepresented a pure and innocent, who opposed the dehumanization and commodification of human existence that was introduced in Italy after the war. This feeling that brilliantly captures the objective of Colli della Tonino in these two fantastic back-tracking shots, in which Anna Magnani seems to confess to the camera while in and out of the box, acquaintances and clients of the prostitute.
The pervasiveness and possession of Mamma Roma on the life of her son Ettore, slashing at times a relationship "oedipal." In the scene where the mother teaches Ettore dance with the song "Violino Tzigane" is played libidinous point that goes beyond the love of a mother for a child. As in the zealous attitude of the mother when the child learns that falls in love with Bruna (Silva Corsini), who will ask your friend prostitute (Luisa Orioli) that appeals vástago.Está relation to no less a film transcript of Pasolini's own relationship with his mother Susan. The Italian artist exaperado suffered a love for his mother and it is not surprising that the screen had just carried one of the quintessential Western myth in Oedipus Rex.
The final Mamma Roma, where Ettore, cruzificado in a hospital bed after committing a robbery suicide, crying to his mother, allows Pasolini show your love of figurative and pictorial event. Clear and direct reference the Dead Christ by Mantegna.
Ettore / Christ faces oscillate between the divine and the mundane, very close Pasolini to Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) shows us the ineffable of human existence through the sacred.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Homemade Jack Off Pumps

The bright sun shins (1953) John Ford



The Times They Are a-Changin ..


not know the reason why the sun shine bright film is so little valued and widely recognized in the films of John Ford. It is a fact that we surprised me because without doubt one of his best works at the level of Shakespearean The Passion of the strong (1946) , the Homeric The Searchers (1956) or lampedusiana The Man Who Shot Balance Liberti (1962). Something that also happens to Four song (1929) the best film of the stage moves, a pacifist and militarist lyrical melodrama, without doubt one of his masterpieces is in sight where the importance and weight to be family in his later works .

The Sun Shine Bright is a small film in terms of production as W agon Master, Rio Grande and She Wore a Yellow ivencible , but that was beside Licon Young (1939) a of films which were more satisfied as he confessed to Peter Bogdanovich.
Located within the cycle of films called "American" made by Judge Priest and Steamboat Round the Bend , The bright sun shins contains the germ of pessimism and elegiac to accompany him on Webmail desenvocará its stage and in the doctor's sucidio Catwright in Seven Women (1966) . Surely

Judge Priest (Charles Winninger) does not belong to this group yet romantic losers, Mayor Frank Shefftington form of The Last Hurrah , the gunman Thom Doniphon of Man Who Shot Liberty Balance or the pilot of Spig Wead Written under the sun, but certainly has the leading concept that appears in all the films Fordist: must be firm and strong but tolerant and understanding, and know when to turn a blind eye so that his men might bypass the law.

The temperament of a leader so well embody Fordist Hernry Fonda, in his role as future U.S. president The young Lincoln (1939) or former gunslinger Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine (1946) , is allowing Judge Charles Winninger as Priest, do against the lynching of a young black man who is unjustly accused of rape at the hands of a horde of feverish and excited. Everyone knows that the human being as part of a crowd seems to be unaware of his actions and descends several rungs of civilization, such as Fritz Lang showed us Fury (1931) and Jacques Turneur stars in my crown ( 1950).

Throughout the film, Ford displayed a clear taste for film collective rituals and social gatherings, dances, churches, military. The funeral of the mother of Lucy Lee's The bright shing sun is a good example of Ford's ability to extract all the beauty of these rituals.
The Judge Priest will begin the procession just behind the car where the body will gradually Fasrfield village will go adding to the party, even leaving aside old hatreds of the Civil War and the moral hypocrisy. "Who is without sin cast the first stone" Priest will say Mass in the church by holding a clear allusion to the biblical parable.

After the funeral procession is held in honor of Judge Priest's victory in the election against his opponent Horace Maydew. But there is a paradox in these two collective rituals, which Ted Gallagher said in his work on Ford, and the funeral becomes a celebration almost festive parade and becomes an act of dyes mortuary. The plane of Judge Priest reframed of shoveling through the doors of their house while her inseparable friend plays the harmonica is a mixture of the exclusion of Ethan Edward at the end Searchers and the sad shadow of Frank Sheffigton after its defeat in Last Hurrah . If, as Godard said, are ways that we say it is inside of things, John Ford again says a lot with little. The Times They Are a-Changin ..