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#filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi #BOTD
THE HUMAN CONDITION trilogy / 人間の條件 (1959 – 1961)
#cinematography: Yoshio Miyajima
#WWII #antiwar
THE SOUTHERNER – Jean Renoir, 1945
Read Parte III in #italiano >> https://t.co/NC4cEEOpJ6
Compare these shots with the oil painting of a similarly composed scene by Pierre Auguste Renoir – the father of Jean Renoir, who directed this film.
David Niven #BOTD
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH – Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946
#cinematography: Jack Cardiff
w/ Kim Hunter
#WWII #fantasy
A British fighter pilot on his way down bonds with an American radio operator.
“I’ll have my wings soon – big white ones!”
#writer Stefan Zweig #BOTD
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN – Max Ophüls, 1948
#cinematography: Franz Planer
w/ Louis Jourdan & Art Smith #blacklisted
#BookToFilm – 1922
“If this reaches you, you will know how I became yours…when you didn’t know who I was…or even that I existed…”
Vittorio De Sica #BOTD
TWO WOMEN / La ciociara (1960)
#motif: Cesira combs Rosetta’s #hair. First, she fixes the little girl's braids. Later in a #foreshadow, Cesira says, “I think you’re old enough for a new #hairdo.” Still later, after the attack, she can’t comb it at all.
(Young’uns: this is Boris & Natasha from the children’s satirical cold-war cartoon that I grew up with in the early 1960s, “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends”)
Me IRL vs. animated me
JOURNEY TO ITALY / Viaggio in Italia – Roberto Rossellini, 1954
w/ Ingrid Bergman
#BookToFilm “Duo” – Colette, 1934
Sculpture: “The Runners”
Katherine visits the #Naples National Archaeological #Museum. Something about what she sees there disturbs her…
#InternationalMuseumDay
#CriterionMovieClub
“You just took that beard off your face. Inside you’re as whiskered as the Smith Brothers!" 🤣