I remember when I first saw it it inspired me to write a story, now I just need to remember where that story is and if it's any good.
Le Bonjeur - 1965
Directed by Agnes Varda
![Agnès Varda - Short Films Collection - 2-DVD Set ( O saisons, ô châteaux / Plaisir d'amour en Iran / Du côté de la côte / Ydessa, les ours et etc. / Ulysse / Salut les cubains / 7p [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vQKL_Z8IqSdlYhWU1dsvURIPgiD9E3d7pSJlb6pPruCkJADfIbnWdCAbHxjqZlnb9ZYDGgN5KzCDndhcz6DSZXoscIGYlF6gIisiOudlCMMi11h2sN7ubLK8fcG5wZ8onl28RC7ZJRmTpKHl_FniieHeO7uaeV5Ak1F4v_lIzu2ruocKcvS4XiQtMNjWmhJw8jXoWCfCjzpY7p_9_aJ-x2tICwMtYdqMI=s0-d)
31.5.11
Agnes Varda - Le Bonhuer
A friend reminded me of this film... in an indirect way.
I remember when I first saw it it inspired me to write a story, now I just need to remember where that story is and if it's any good.
Le Bonjeur - 1965
Directed by Agnes Varda
I remember when I first saw it it inspired me to write a story, now I just need to remember where that story is and if it's any good.
Le Bonjeur - 1965
Directed by Agnes Varda
27.5.11
Tortilla Flats - 1942 - Drinking Song
I'm not doing justice to this post, I should write paragraphs but I'm in the mood to share now not later.
Tortilla Flats - 1942 - Drinking Song
Akim Tamiroff's verse:
"listen amigos and I will ask you this/
why is a glass just like a woman's kiss/ (muah)
when it's full of wine it makes you blind a little bit/
when the wine is gone you can see through it..."
The paisanos celebrate Danny's inheritance with an "impromptu" drinking song (words by Broadway's Frank Loesser.) Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Akim Tamiroff, Sheldon Leonard.
The film is actually quite fun and stays pretty true to the book.
Tortilla Flats - 1942
Directed by Victor Fleming
This was Fleming's second film with Tamiroff the first being Reckless 1935
so Tamiroff shared the screen with Hedy Lemarr in Tortilla Flats and Jean Harlow in Reckless... not bad.
Other information about Tortilla Flats... Stars Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lemarr. Based on a Steinbeck novel. Frank Morgan was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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Tortilla Flats - 1942 - Drinking Song
Akim Tamiroff's verse:
"listen amigos and I will ask you this/
why is a glass just like a woman's kiss/ (muah)
when it's full of wine it makes you blind a little bit/
when the wine is gone you can see through it..."
The paisanos celebrate Danny's inheritance with an "impromptu" drinking song (words by Broadway's Frank Loesser.) Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Akim Tamiroff, Sheldon Leonard.
The film is actually quite fun and stays pretty true to the book.
Tortilla Flats - 1942
Directed by Victor Fleming
This was Fleming's second film with Tamiroff the first being Reckless 1935
so Tamiroff shared the screen with Hedy Lemarr in Tortilla Flats and Jean Harlow in Reckless... not bad.
Other information about Tortilla Flats... Stars Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lemarr. Based on a Steinbeck novel. Frank Morgan was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
19.5.11
Lev Kuleshov - Statement on the Art of Cinema
"1) The actors played their parts well, but that is the art of the
theatre!
2)The designer created beautiful sets, but that is the art of the
designer!
3) The cameraman did an excellent job, but that is the art of the
photographer!
4) Finally, the plot was entertaining, but that is the art of the
writer!
Now where, for goodness' sake, is the art of film? There is none here,
nor can there be, for however good we are at reproducing other arts,
the best we can hope to achieve is an ideal moving photograph and not
genuine film art. Let us reason in this way: if film art does not lie
in the filming of separate pieces, then it must be sought in the
juxtaposition of those pieces, i.e. their assembly." (pp 39-40).
Art of the Cinema (1929; cf. Kuleshov on Film, ed. by Ronald Levaco)
The Banner of Cinematography" (English edition: Lev Kuleshov, 1987,
Selected Works, Moscow: Raduga Publ.)
1924 The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Directed by Lev Kuleshov
(too bad it's in russian... I don't understand russian)
This VHS is going for $99... does that come with the vcr?
theatre!
2)The designer created beautiful sets, but that is the art of the
designer!
3) The cameraman did an excellent job, but that is the art of the
photographer!
4) Finally, the plot was entertaining, but that is the art of the
writer!
Now where, for goodness' sake, is the art of film? There is none here,
nor can there be, for however good we are at reproducing other arts,
the best we can hope to achieve is an ideal moving photograph and not
genuine film art. Let us reason in this way: if film art does not lie
in the filming of separate pieces, then it must be sought in the
juxtaposition of those pieces, i.e. their assembly." (pp 39-40).
Art of the Cinema (1929; cf. Kuleshov on Film, ed. by Ronald Levaco)
The Banner of Cinematography" (English edition: Lev Kuleshov, 1987,
Selected Works, Moscow: Raduga Publ.)
1924 The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Directed by Lev Kuleshov
(too bad it's in russian... I don't understand russian)
This VHS is going for $99... does that come with the vcr?
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