Reviews
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
raising the flag again
I saw the movie decades ago. it mixed real war scenes , with new "normally filmed in sets" ones.
the interesting point is in the facts that i remember reading in some contemporary magazine ( printed in the 40s) that the famous pict of the raising flag on the top of Iwo Jima ( also reproduced in bronze in a Washington monument ) is not really the first, original one.
actually the first pictures roll was accidentally lost in some process, can't remember how, and the photographer asked those guys to repeat the scene , just as we know such now.
it was, then, a kind of mise en scene, even if repeating, probably the best as they could,the original event just as it happened a while before.
normal. if it was also for a movie, isn't?
L'ultima diva: Francesca Bertini (1982)
just seen an extract on CAS - Classic arts showcase today.
she certainly was and still had a strong temper.
i totally ignored such diva. always interesting to discover "forgotten" (for our generations) stars, in the sky or from the screen, and there are many still shining even if sometimes in some shadow of the passing time.
hopefully CAS will show other Divas, or Divo's.. later on ... even if she acted in silent movies and so wasn't exactly an opera diva...
at 91 years old Francesca was still "working good" in front of the cameras.
so the last scene of the extract reproducing the Puccini's opera Tosca end, she originally filmed in 1915 i think, was a kind of sublime show of the eternity still available on some old acetates.
It remembered also the same location for filming the same opera, with Placido Domingo.
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)
miles music
i must have somewhere the original vinyl record, by Fontana / France. Was the A side of the 33rpm. the B side was the same Miles with another recording group. Many years later i found another vinyl (in the 70s) version. I could scan the pict on the label. if someone is interested. or eventually if the same IMDb can publish it included with the movie info. let me know. i wonder if there is also an .Us version of the original record, and if there a digital copy under some label. which one, then. and where available. I never saw the original record digitally republished or distributed. If you saw one somewhere, let me know here, thanks. Or on skype. Pat / Mexico.
Professione: reporter (1975)
a perfect technical trick ...
After seeing such movie in the 70s, i remember this movie caused various comment on how technically f.i. the last,and very long scene was actually taken, with the camera going outside, trough a closed window(with steel bars)from the ceiling of a dark sleeping room, very slowly passing trough the closed steel bars of the window, and climbing out to pan into the outside plaza, even shooting at the same closed bars the camera passed trough moments before. no vibrations. no apparent option of shooting with a dolly through the open roof of the sleeping - and very dark - room. No shading under the external sun. one of the option was that the set was completely removable and the slowness of the scene gave time to Grumman to do the trick. a removable set. but still a perfectly shot scene, technically, adding to the climax of the end of the story. Pat /Mexico
Professione: reporter (1975)
a perfect technical trick ...
After seeing such movie in the 70s, i remember this movie caused various comment on how technically f.i. the last,and very long scene was actually taken, with the camera going outside, trough a closed window(with steel bars)from the ceiling of a dark sleeping room, very slowly passing trough the closed steel bars of the window, and climbing out to pan into the outside plaza, even shooting at the same closed bars the camera passed trough moments before. no vibrations. no apparent option of shooting with a dolly through the open roof of the sleeping - and very dark - room. No shading under the external sun. one of the option was that the set was completely removable and the slowness of the scene gave time to Grumman to do the trick. a removable set. but still a perfectly shot scene, technically, adding to the climax of the end of the story. Pat /Mexico
Professione: reporter (1975)
a perfect technical trick ...
After seeing such movie in the 70s, i remember this movie caused various comment on how technically f.i. the last,and very long scene was actually taken, with the camera going outside, trough a closed window(with steel bars)from the ceiling of a dark sleeping room, very slowly passing trough the closed steel bars of the window, and climbing out to pan into the outside plaza, even shooting at the same closed bars the camera passed trough moments before. no vibrations. no apparent option of shooting with a dolly through the open roof of the sleeping - and very dark - room. No shading under the external sun. one of the option was that the set was completely removable and the slowness of the scene gave time to Grumman to do the trick. a removable set. but still a perfectly shot scene, technically, adding to the climax of the end of the story. Pat /Mexico