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Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan in Born to Be Bad |
A blog formerly known as Bookishness / By Charles Matthews
"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Saturday, April 13, 2024
Born to Be Bad (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
Friday, April 12, 2024
Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam, 2023)
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Pierrette Aboheu Njeuthat in Mambar Pierrette |
Cast: Pierrette Aboheu Njeuthat, Marguerite Mbakop, Duval Franklin Nwodu Chinedu, Léonce Sonia Bangoub, Chamard Yotchou, Chimène Aboheu, Claire Hiencheu, Marie Noël Nimendeu, Emmanuel Keutagna. Screenplay: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam. Cinematography: Finoa Braillon. Film editing: Geoffroy Cernaix.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
House of Pleasures (Bertrand Bonello, 2011)
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Phase IV (Saul Bass, 1974)
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Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, and Lynne Frederick in Phase IV |
Cast: Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford, Robert Henderson, Helen Horton. Screenplay: Mayo Simon. Cinematography: Dick Bush. Art direction: John Barry. Film editing: Willy Kemplen. Music: Brian Gascoigne.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Ho-Sun Chan, 1996)
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Maggie Cheung and Leon Lai in Comrades: Almost a Love Story |
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Kristy Yeung, Christopher Doyle, Tung Cho "Joe" Cheung, Irene Tsu, Yu Ting, Michelle Gabriel. Screenplay: Ivy Ho. Cinematography: Jingle Ma. Production design: Chung-Man Yee. Film editing: Ki-Hop Chan, Chi-Leung Kwong. Music: Tsang-Hei Chiu.
Monday, April 8, 2024
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, Yoshio Suzuki, 2004)
Cast: Voices of Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masatao Hagiwara, Yuka Nanri, Unsho Ishizuka, Kazuhiko Inoue, Risa Mizuno, Hidenobu Kiuchi. Screenplay: Makoto Shinkai. Cinematography: Makoto Shinkai. Art direction: Takumi Tanji. Film editing: Makoto Shinkai. Music: Tenmon.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)
Cast: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte, Nele Ahrenmeier, Lili Falk, Medusa Knopf, Maximilian Beck, Andrey Isaev, Stephanie Petrowitz, Imogen Kogga. Screenplay: Jonathan Glazer, based on a novel by Martin Amis. Cinematography: Lukasz Zal. Production design: Chris Oddy. Film editing: Paul Watts. Music: Mica Levi.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
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Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, and Françoise Lebrun in The Mother and the Whore |
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten, Jacques Renard, Jean-Noël Picq, Jessa Darrieux, Berthe Granval, Geneviève Mnich. Screenplay: Jean Eustache. Cinematography: Pierre Lhomme. Film editing: Denis de Casabianca, Jean Eustache.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
Cast: Voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Taro Ishida, Tessho Genda, Mizuho Susuki, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Fukue Ito, Kazuhiro Shindo, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Okura, Takeshi Kusao, Hiroshi Otake. Screenplay: Katsuhiro Otomo, Izo Hashimoto, based on a manga by Otomo. Cinematography: Katsuji Misawa. Production design: Kazuo Ebisawa, Yuji Ikehata, Hiroshi Ono. Film editing: Takeshi Seyama. Music: Shoji Yamashiro.