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Stories, essays, poems. Pushcart nom. Posts & pics on current obsessions Piero, Montegna, Pasolini, Demy & always Emily, Ozu & Jameses. Love the friendly connections & learning from everyone
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1480 Mantegna pic expressed ~500 years later by Bellocchio
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“the red armchair, a personality in its own right” “The whole picture finally keeps reality in equilibrium.” Rilke on this Cezanne
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Rilke wanted to go back to the Salon to re-engage Cezanne’s Still Life w Black Clock but a car show had taken over. “Automobiles… long and dumb… each with its own idee fixe on velocity.”
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A spectacular Cezanne that Rilke saw when back in Prague Nov ‘07. “This rolling of red into blue… as naturally from the colorful events in the picture as the relationship between two Rodin nudes does from their sculptural affinity.”
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Sanshiro Sugata 1943 Kurosawa’s first film (w Takashi Shimura in supporting role)
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Those evil-natured robots They’re programmed to destroy us She’s gotta be strong to fight them So she’s taking lots of vitamins
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A spectacular Cezanne that Rilke saw when back in Prague Nov ‘07. “This rolling of red into blue… as naturally from the colorful events in the picture as the relationship between two Rodin nudes does from their sculptural affinity.”
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Rilke wanted to go back to the Salon to re-engage Cezanne’s Still Life w Black Clock but a car show had taken over. “Automobiles… long and dumb… each with its own idee fixe on velocity.”
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1480 Mantegna pic expressed ~500 years later by Bellocchio
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Italian poster for MIRACLE IN MILAN (1951), directed and co-written by Vittorio De Sica, BOTD in 1901
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“the red armchair, a personality in its own right” “The whole picture finally keeps reality in equilibrium.” Rilke on this Cezanne
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Note: Criterion is streaming Pasolini’s Medea w Callas
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And thus Baudelaire besmirched sky (and love?)
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“When the harsh sun laid her out” then what Baudelaire?
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Superhero genius team up starring Dirk Bogarde w Luchino Visconti, Thomas Mann, & Gustav Mahler
Dirk Bogarde in Death in Venice. An all time great performance
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Grebe (?), wood duck family, mallard mom & young
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Fists in Pocket 1965 Marco Bellocchio
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Fists in Pocket 1965 Marco Bellocchio
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Classic Rilke in a letter from 1907. Reduce immensity… for fear that it might destroy us. Tr Agee
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“When you see Chardin’s self-portraits, you think he must have been a queer old lone wolf.” Rilke letter 1907