Movie Recommendation- Day 86:
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)/Italy
Director: Mario Monicelli
'Big Deal on Madonna Street' (1958) by Mario Monicelli is an Italian comedy with a satirical take on caper movies like 'Rififi' (1955), which follows the burglary attempt of a local pawnshop by a quintet of inept small-time thieves.
Movie Recommendation- Day 85:
Salto (1965)/ Poland
Director: Tadeusz Konwicki
"Salto" (1965) by Tadeusz Konwicki is a surrealist drama starring Zbigniew Cybulski, about a neurotic man on the run from Nazis (?!), who enters a ghastly town by jumping from a train, where things are not what they seem to be.
Which is your favourite 'Romantic/Love' quote from a movie?
I'll begin:
"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me."
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Director: Nicholas Ray
When our family started Yatreda in our front yard, I never imagined it would grow into a big world. While we were designing our Paris Photo fine art catalogue, I had a moment of reflection on the themes of our work
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𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
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Martin Scorsese on Antonioni’s 'L’Avventura' (1960):
"Forty years ago, when I saw Antonioni’s 'L’Avventura' (1960), I didn’t know quite what to make of it. I went to see it a second time, and a third time. And I thought that the filmmaker was forcing me to view life in a different rhythm or with a different frame.
Part of the initial problem I had with the movie was that I didn’t know who those people were. It depicted a world I had no firsthand knowledge of. But once I got past that, I began to see that the images had a melancholy and a power to them. There was drama in every frame. And the panning was different, the tracking was different.
I’ve always tried to capture what Antonioni did, but I can never get it. I just have a totally different sensibility. There’s no way I can get near it. He does it a lot in Blow-Up, though I prefer 'L’Avventura' and 'L'Eclisse' (1962).
But still there’s this parallel move that he makes which is so detached yet has such spiritual power. It’s a very cool sensibility, very cool. It made me stop and look. He was showing the world in a different way."
(This excerpt is from 2010-11)
Martin Scorsese on John Cassavetes' influence on filmmaking:
"On one hand we had Citizen Kane, Powell/Pressburger, John Ford, and Fritz Lang. On the other hand, we had the whole revolution in production and style coming out of the late fifties.
John Cassavetes was the leader of this revolution. He was able to combine interpretive drama and its emphasis on character with a style that seemed to have the immediacy of documentary.
In the process, he broke all the rules."
"There’s something interesting about voiceover: it lets you in on the secret thoughts of the characters, or secret observations by an omniscient viewer. And for me it has a wonderful comforting tone of someone telling you a story."
--- Martin Scorsese