Monday, January 17, 2011

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SENSO

"By early summer I received a telegram from Tennessee Williams and went to Rome in the Jaguar (...) The purpose of the trip was that Tennessee had agreed that I write dialogues for a film that would do Luchino Visconti. The action would take place during the Austro-Italian war of the mid-nineteenth century.
..... Visconti was an affable and charming. When I was collecting six weeks and had finished the job, he said he was not satisfied the love scenes. After a week, Tennessee, that was who he initially had hoped to write the dialogues, gave him exactly what he wanted. We share the credits of the film, which eventually was titled Senso. "
(PAUL BOWLES)
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"I always do side work on request, which was particularly true in the case of Senso therefore not considered an interesting actor Farley Granger. Moreover, the fact that my work was not paid no increased the incentive. What little I did in the script was, in fact, by the admiration inspired Visconti me and as thanks for giving my friend Mary, who was in dire need of it, a post production. "
(TENNESSEE WILLIAMS)
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LIEUTENANT MAHLER: _ Do not think it would have been better if the other night at the opera Ussoni had told me that was her lover, and that was why I asked to renounce him beat me?

Serpieri COUNTESS: Ussoni _Roberto is not my lover, my cousin. And it's the person I admire most in this world. LT

MAHLER: _ Do you admire more than her husband? COUNTESS

Serpieri: _VerĂ¡, my husband and I have very different views about the Austrians. He is willing to accept them even asked for favors. I'm just like my cousin, a true Italian.

Monday, January 10, 2011

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DEATH IN VENICE / Silvana Mangano

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"The air was cold woman and content, and combed his hair, which was lightly dusted, and the manner of her dress, testified that simplicity that determines where good taste religiosity passed as an integral part of elegance. He could have been the wife of a senior German official. All were overly luxurious displaying their jewelry, precious, her earrings and necklace triple marathon, made of pearls as big as cherries and soft iridescence. "
(THOMAS MANN, Death In Venice)
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"The silent Silvana Mangano, who see their children as beautiful and neatly dressed, was a copy of Mrs. Carla Visconti: Visconti said the same to see the reading Mangano Beach covered with hats and umbrellas, with the superb profile, distant, no husband, she was the terrifying impression of seeing her mother. "

(Gaia Servadio, Luchino Visconti )

Photo: MARIO TULSI

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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Sebastian Flyte: __Me like to bury something precious in places where I've been happy. And so when he is old, ugly and miserable, dig it up again and remember.
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Dedicated to

HENRY on the day of his birthday.

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