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Invitation to dinner with crime - Robert Moore (1976)

(Murder by Death)

seen on DVD in the original language with English subtitles.

A mysterious individual ( Truman Capote, the writer, who curiously resembles a Malgioglio without tuft) calls for a weekend of the 5 best investigators in the world, will be revealed soon the true intent and put them in the race to see which of them is the best.

all star movie that makes fun of the classic yellow, the 5 stars are in fact the obvious caricatures of Poirot , Miss Marple, Nick and Nora Charles series "The Thin Man " Charlie Chan and a mixture of Sam Spade and Philip Marlow .

As I said to star in a film that stand out in particular David Niven, a splendid old Nick Charles, and Peter Falk role of a perfect Marlowe of questionable sexual identity.

The movie takes the liberty of quoting the books home, because the film (the wonderful conclusion just that Falk cites " Southern Waters"), it sfotte mechanisms and typical dynamics, and everything to take revenge on that kind (as discussed in the final).

A film really drunkard, conducted without a decision by Robert Moore (who is?), And the mechanism quite cumbersome (the writer is compelled to respond in turn to all 5 of the same facts, and it becomes more and more forced and surreal), but otherwise it's just a divertissement and as such should be taken, and as such fun.

PS: The film is full of puns (some idiots) that are lost or rendered completely or 2 times more jerks in the Italian version.

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pleasure and love - Max Ophüls (1950)

(La Ronde)

seen on DVD.

Based on work by Schnitzler the film follows ten people in their amorous encounters that follow them with each other in a sort of relay race of pleasure.

supported by a superb cast, the plot tends to lay bare the hypocrisy, the false naivete and deception put in place to make the sexual act decent, surrounding it with false, false love, false promises and a ring and customs. Ironically, then it seems that all men are indirectly linked by a series of reports.

On the whole, however, wins the shape and direction.

The form is supported by a deus ex machina that leads to pervasive and ubiquitous games, explains the report and move forward through the circle. This deus moves between characters and scenes from the unmasking of the fiction, including film. Superb start of the game in which the conductor walks through a stage in front of a stage and film set between trying to explain what he represents himself (not to mention the scene in which the coil cuts during the scene ' love between the actress and the count, humming the word "censorship").

The director is now blossomed ophulsiana classic, with a series of sequence shots more or less dizzy, but all delicate enough to be invisible if you're not careful. Ophüls designed a series of scenes based on his camera movements and not vice versa. Each story also has some unique styling, some attempt to frame the original, through the holes, through tissue, with crooked shots with a comparison with the flow of the restaurant, actors who look and speak in the room, etc. ...

A enjoyable film from every point of view, it also satisfies those looking for originality.

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Novels in New York # 36: The Great Gatsby in New York


La copia in mio possesso di questo libro fa parte di un cofanetto di Oscar Mondadori dedicato a Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), pubblicato nel 1970 con la traduzione che Fernanda Pivano curò nel 1950.
Ha qualche pecca tipografica come l’impaginazione sbagliata del capitolo introduttivo “Fitzgerald e il suo tempo” (bisogna leggerla a pagine alternate: prima la 8 poi la 10 poi la 9 poi la 11…). Ha un richiamo in copertina che in meno di venti parole dice troppo e anche di più della trama, e alcune pagine del romanzo non centrate bene. Tutto è compensato da un’ampia sezione saggistica corredata da splendide fotografie dello scrittore, colto nella sua vita private.
There are several editions of this novel (first appeared in Italy under the title of the Magnificent Gatsby in No. 89 of The Novels of Mondadori Palma in 1936) yet, despite the flaws, I would not change my copy no, not just for the photos.
E 'in this edition found in the family library that I went over to one of the masterpieces of American literature, a classic of its era. Written in 1925 (the same year Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos) The Great Gatsby marks a change in American fiction, offers a refined plot, engaging, which is at the same time a way to tell deep in the pleasure-loving America of the years that preceded the financial crisis of 1929.
The figure of Jay Gatsby, told through the eyes of a neighbor, Nick Carraway, is dramatic and seductive in its fragile grandeur.
A love never forgotten, the relationship with the mob, the will of social redemption, the golden solitude contributing to the creation of a character in the romantic sense closer to the concept known as the German word for sehnsuct , translated more or less with yearning, which shows an inner desire addressed to a person or thing that you love or want to strongly. The scenery is beautiful
Gatsby's West Egg mansion in the imaginary near real Long Island where, from time to time, it's off to New York aboard a fascinating automobiles "The city, seen from the Queensboro Bridge, a city that has always you see for the first time in its first mad promise of all the mystery and the beauty of the world. "
And in New York players have fun and compare. The tension grows, the antagonist and reactionary Tom Buchanan was giving it his all to appear unsympathetic, his wife Daisy contention becomes even more fascinating with its uncertainties and there is time for a careful look at the city as one of the young and athletic Jordan: "I like New York in the summer afternoons when there is none. There is something very sensual, overripe, as if all kinds of strange fruits were going to fall on his hand. ".
The Great Gatsby is a novel that does make big breaths, you read and reread, the American myth emanates from every page and ends beyond the end tied to the story, giving a breathtaking view of Manhattan, one of the most intense ever Written: "The man must have held their breath in front of this continent, compelled to aesthetic contemplation he neither desired not happen, as we face one last time in the history of something appropriate to its ability to surprise."
In the plot there are many autobiographical references on the life of Francis Scott Fitzgerald ( the house in Great Neck on Long Island, the fabulous and legendary parties, the elegance, the economic crisis, problems with his wife, alcohol ) and the reading of the introductory notes will be very interesting if not preparatory to the novel itself.
Today, forfeited the right to acquire the work, there are several Italian editions of this masterpiece, all readily available but with very different translations. What I suggest is always translated by Fernanda Pivano and published in the current series of Oscar Classici Mondadori (now unfortunately no photos). Another option to consider is the one published the Press, with translation of Franca Cavagnoli which has a more modern language, but still respectful of the original atmosphere.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Classici Mondadori, 2001

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Novels # 35: Fortress of Solitude


read this novel has been a factor.
being inside the old cartoons of Marvel wrapped as relics, tons of titles of tracks funk and soul and discover the satisfaction that I knew all, and three pages to track Rapper's Delight the Sugarhill Gang made me a reader satisfied and qualified. After the reading I went into my personal "bat-cave" with renewed devotion to admire my collection of original American comics incellophanati carefully and old LPs and 45s.
I've always been convinced that everything that collection had its poetic soul of literature, but sometimes in order to substantiate its belief that there is a need for a writer like Lethem that we confirm it.
Released by the bat-cave is in the spirit of the blog and the step Fortress of Solitude (The Fortress of Solitude) that, for the uninitiated, in addition to the novel's title is the name of Superman's secret hideout.
The book, first published in 2003, tells the Brooklyn of the '70s through the history of friendship between the white Dylan Ebdus Black and Mingus Rude, a friendship experienced between four streets of Brooklyn, a microcosm of the changing racial where "there are murmurs that whites are returning" .
Dylan, Ebdus and the other kids in the suburbs, including the tough Robert Woolfolk, grow on street games, petty theft, music, tags and graffiti on the walls, superheroes, bullying. And the drug, spiced with hopes no one knows what.
They dream of being superheroes and also for some of them the opportunity will present itself, thanks to a mysterious ring had inherited from a bum. But
Dean Street, Flatbush Avenue, Nevins Street, Bergen Street , not Manhattan, with its towers and skyscrapers, districts are horizontal, with low houses where no flying superhero, even their Aeroman, moves smoothly: "Dylan is close to the edge, at most, then closer. She slides one foot on the ledge, bend your knees as George Washington on the bow. He can see down the bottom of the pit of Dean Street, the tops of newly planted trees, grids on the roofs of buses passing through, but the feeling is dizzying. "
that road, where it takes place throughout the first part of the novel long and have little or nothing nice: "Brooklyn is not always felt able to look different from what it was, conscious and anxious, pointing Manhattan, as in Dean, in Bergen or in Pacific Street. Brooklyn, at times, was also pleased, as in Flatbush Avenue, to be herself, messy and persistent. "
Yet the appeal of the suburbs, where it grows, it is undeniable suffering and the hope is for the reader as to the writer. Those roads are the setting for the training of social acceptance, where it remains unclear who laughs at those who challenge those who are victims of those. Lethem's writing is vivid, sharp, and with dialogues that affect impact and there are exercises in style refined as the transition from third to first person narration after the first part of the novel and the writing of the liner notes of the CD box set Bothered Blue imaginary Subtle Distinctions group.
The events of the two protagonists and other characters such as Mingus's father, Barrett Rude (he is the former lead singer of the aforementioned Subtle Distinctions, probably inspired by Philippe Wynne of the Spinners ) are followed step by step from the '70s to ' 90, make us breathe the air of a District of New York literary and sap that is, in spite of family situations certainly not idyllic, even nostalgic dream for a generation of forty-fifty years old who have spent their youth to read with the greed comic books and liner notes discs until the last printed character, was that of copyright and credits microscopic printing. As someone has already
sospettato, le storie di Dylan, Ebdus e Robert e gli altri avranno destini diversi, non tutti con la stessa fortuna, ma le radici della strada sono difficili da estirpare.
Chiudo con una nota sulla copertina di questa edizione italiana del romanzo.
Credo che sia totalmente sbagliata.
Questa illustrazione del Red Nose Studio, perfetta nell'esprimere angoscia e oppressione, non evoca minimamente i contenuti del libro e non aiuta certo a dare al lavoro di Lethem una maggiore diffusione. Lethem, qui al suo sesto romanzo, resta in Italia un autore per intenditori e un progetto di grafica più accattivante e più in tema, come ad esempio quello realizzato per il libro di Claudia Durastanti Un Giorno Verrò a Lanciare Sassi alla tua window, not far from the atmosphere of this volume would have been more appropriate. Or just take any of cover American or British .
The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem, The Assayer Pocket, 2010