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The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
At the Center for Art of Translation blog , Scott Esposito introduces us to Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996), 'one of the most important experimental Italian poets of the 20th century, often associated with Gruppo 63 and the Italian avant-garde. First trained as a composer and musicologist, she turned to writing in her early twenties. She was fluent in Italian, French and English, and in her early writings,...
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Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Cast members from TR WarszawaPhoto: Stefan Okolowicz/UCLA Live 2009With the ever tightening relationship between motion pictures and the stage, it’s becoming more and more realistic for fans of certain films to hope to see their favorites make it to the flesh and blood world of the theater. From any number of Disney musicals to the upcoming Spider-Man extravaganza, the possibilities may seem
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Italian model and film actor, she left the cinema and joined the jet set Rosanna Schiaffino, who has died aged 69, was one of those Italian beauty queens who began a promising acting career in the post-neorealist cinema of the 1950s. She gave up the cinema in the 1970s and married the handsome playboy and steel industry heir Giorgio Falck. Their marriage and, a decade later, their break-up and divorce,...
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Canterbury Tales , winner of the Golden Bear , is a 1972 Pier Paolo Pasolini film based on Chaucer 's story , which can be read online in language adapted for modern readers. The music is by Ennio Morricone . Tom Baker , my favorite Doctor, has a small role. You can watch it online here , if you don't mind the lack of English subtitles: It was a bit tedious for me, though, so I didn't make it very...
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BBC - Radio 4 - The World Tonight (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
On Sunday 2 November 1975, the renowned Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini was found dead outside Ostia, near Rome. I was the one who broke the news to the world. I was working for Reuters in Rome at the time, and was sitting quietly in the office minding my own business when a colleague from the Italian news agency ANSA, in whose building Reuters was then based, popped in to tell me the news....
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Today is the anniversary of the murder in 1975 of Pier Pasolini . FilmReference.com has an extensive list of resources and begins their short article on his films by saying, "Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet, novelist, philosopher, and filmmaker, came of age during the reign of Italian fascism, and his art is inextricably bound to his politics." Senses of Cinema examines his career. There is a documentary...
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Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
LGBT people born today: 1906 – Luchino Visconti – Italian Director – Died 17 th March 1976 1916 – John Burnside – US Inventor – Died 14 th September 2008 1943 – Casey Donovan – US Porn – Died 10 th August 1987 1946 – Michelle Cliff – Jamaican / US Author / Poet / Literary Critic 1961 – KD Lang – Canadian Singer / Musician...
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Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini – writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals – was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino “The Frog” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, was arrested speeding along the Ostia seafront in Pasolini’s Alfa Romeo. Pelosi was accused...
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is a diverse artist with an eclectic background that includes being a scholar, playwright, composer, actor, comic book writer, historian and psychotherapist. The man is a chameleon. In May it was announced that Jodorowsky was going to work with acclaimed director David Lynch on King Shot which was described as a "metaphysical spaghetti western." Though...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Reporting from San Francisco By all accounts, San Francisco is in love with Nicola Luisotti -- a 47-year-old conductor from Viareggio, Italy, and very Italian – as is he with his new city. Last month he became music director of...
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Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
1853 Arthur Rimbaud (d. November 10 , 1891), French poet ('Poésies'; 'Le bateau ivre'; Illuminations ) and lover of poet Paul Verlaine , who shot him and was sentenced to two years in prison. Rimbaud's main work was written in his youth; he published his first poem at age 16. Rimbaud wrote Une Saison en Enfer ( A Season in Hell ) in prose, widely regarded as one of the pioneering instances of...
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Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Electronic music and DIY event sent my way via Noisecollective who will be present with an exhibition of DIY instruments. You can find more details in Italian here and Googlish here . Also on Noisecollective : - Voice of Saturn Review ( Googlish ) - FIVE12 Interview ( Googlish ) - Doepfer Dark Energy Review ( Googlish )
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Lars von Trier's new film “Antichrist” is but the latest in a long line of shock-tactic art films that date back to 1929. But in the age of “Saw IV,” Internet pornography, and unending real-life reports of torture and terrorism, aren't these bad-boy outrages looking a little tired?
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
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