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Yes, many films from the 20s and 30s are currently lost because of how flammable nitrate is.

Yeah, of course I remember that. How ever could I forget that? "The day Laurel and Hardy were on the Scooby Doo show" is forever etched into my memory.

Some funny scenes but it really didn't need to be two hours.

Another boring schedule this week but they've got a Michael Haneke premiere on Sunday so I'm not angry.

Criterion's essay on Salvatore Giuliano. https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/315-salvatore-giuliano With Salvatore Giuliano (1961), Francesco Rosi developed the style and method that would make him, during the sixties and seventies, the greatest political filmmaker of his time. If Sergei Eisenstein could be considered the master of political cinema in the first half of the twentieth century, Rosi, in a way his peer, offers a totally different approach to the realities of power. Joseph Goebbels, allegedly an admirer of the Russian director’s films, would have been unable to endorse Rosi’s analytical conclusions. Eisenstein uses the tools of propaganda, playing chiefly on emotion and a Manichean view of the world. Rosi, though able to provoke deeply sensitive reactions from his spectators, always manages to make them think by tracking down and exposing the lies that obscure the inquiries and the scandals of our societies. His filmography can be viewed as a vast panorama of the historical past of his country, as well as its present.Influenced by both Italian neorealism and the American crime-film tradition (from Jules Dassin to Elia Kazan), Rosi had worked as an assistant director with such filmmakers as Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Mario Monicelli before striking out on his own as writer and director with two films, La sfida (The Challenge, 1958) and I magliari (1959), the first situated in Naples and the second among Italian immigrant cloth sellers in Hamburg. Having mastered his craft, Rosi inaugurated with Salvatore Giuliano a new kind of realism that, while strongly influenced by neorealism, went beyond its immediate model by examining such issues as power and the relationships between the law and lawbreakers, while also shedding light on the causes and consequences that determine the ways in which society functions.

Gaikowski putting an ad for the Mikado in his counter-culture magazine is what did it for me personally. That is such a bizarre thing and something the Zodiac frequently mentioned in his correspondence.

As stated in "the Republic" censorship can be very beneficial to a society. I don't think a cuss word in an old sitcom is all too important however.

"In Our Time" Podcast on Plato's Symposium, an early pro-LGBT work. I thought this was really interesting and worth sharing.

Everything against Arthur Leigh Allen is circumstantial at best. It had to be Gaikowski. http://www.zodiackiller.com/SuspectGaikowski.html

One interesting real life example - Saro Urzi's role in Seduced and Abandoned was originally going to go to Spencer Tracy or Ernest Borgnine because the producers wanted to get the American audeince. Pietro Germi thought it would be a really bad idea to have a Socttish-American playing a Sicilian.

"The Ascent" also stood in for October: 10 Days That Shook the World once iirc.

Seduced and Abandoned (1964) Pietro Germi, Italy - 6,5/10 - After a woman sleeps with the fiance of her homely sister, the father of the family must perform a shotgun wedding to save face. This is a satire on the Catholic society of southern Italy at the time and its notions of honor and family. Has some very funny scenes but at two hours it is a bit long and drags a bit in some areas. Also despite being a comedy has a very bittersweet pivotal moment that I think was supposed to be sad or touching but also I feel it wasn't handled particularly well as the tone stuck out from the funny scenes around it.

It was common in the 2010s, idiots just whined and **** about it.

I was planning on watching Until the End of the World again but fell asleep. Glad I didn't miss it. I've seen Salvatore before. It is a good film.

Machado de Assis now in a New English translation courtesy of Penguin - this book is recommended by Woody Allen as one of his favorites. https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/rediscovering-one-of-the-wittiest-books-ever-written

I think Jesus Christ has been portrayed more times than either Wyarr Earp or Holmes. Same with the Devil. Some like Max von Sydow even portrayed both!

I've mentioned it before here but I really think Ted Levine should have won it for Buffalo Bill. "Was she a great big fat person?"

Kolberg isn't the most historically accurate but it is a decent technicolor epic for its day. I wonder if Goebbels ever took advantage of Soderbaum. I read that he tried to get most of those German actresses to sleep with him. "Hitler's Hollywood" is a good documentary on the subject if you haven't seen it.

Bewitched Love - Falla's famous ballet in film form. This was nominated for an academy award for foreign language film in 1968.

City of God (2002) Next: funny movie

Not at all.

That sounds like it was also around the time she made Fitzcarraldo. I love that film.

Seconded. She was a funny actress.

Interview with the French great Jean-Luc Godard that was hosted on Instagram a couple months ago. I thought he was pretty funny ("working girls" ) in this and he discusses everything from the current virus to working with FNW greats like Anna Karina and Truffaut.