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winners and losers - Stanley Kramer (1961) Apotheosis

(Judgment at Nuremberg)

Visto in VHS.

La descrizione del processo a 4 gerarchetti nazisti nel 1948 (right of judges and a former minister of justice) courts presided over by a surprisingly open minded, willing to understand why the Germans first to condemn them in toto.

A film is important because it is the first (and to my knowledge, almost the only) to maintain a certain objectivity about Nazi Germany (it's also the first that I know of, to show real images of death camps after the liberation). Show all points of view, the most extreme (both the Germans, as the prosecutor now under indictment, and the Americans, as the current prosecutor) to the more moderate, rising for the 2000 facets political ideology (and Satanic system) has had on everyday life. There are no excuses (or acquittals, even for positive characters), but the desire to show and to understand how to live, go ahead, despite living in a Nazi state and doing nothing to oppose it. Certainly the continued, protested, invocation of ignorance about what happen in the death camps can be believed or not, but change little things, like the German lawyer says, they are being accused all Germans (and should not be the only).

As I said the faults are distributed appropriately, and absolution is not final (as it should be), but the film affords the luxury of defending the Germans and to understand them. No small feat.

PS: I never appointed Kramer, but he goes there with a legal wedding movie, and although quite small, dance with the camera, framing on multiple floors (all functional shots that are used to show in the first floor and second floor speaker who is appointed) and stop when in fact the circle would be superfluous. But sin for the all star cast, largely wasted.

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Olympia - Leni Riefenstahl (1938)

(Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit)

seen on VHS.

The second film based on the recordings Olympics of '38 about all sports not touched in the first. If it was in the athletics, we are all in this modern sports, from fencing, horse racing, the sport of water.

In this film, Riefenstahl dare more, aiming most of the races and transforming sul'estetica (whose results are less and less important) in the real challenges of bodies and shadows. Wonderful the initial sequence of screens and all of the board, in an escalation of risky shots and editing.

The Riefenstahl frames from every angle, they put a camera in the pool and uses the backlight, sports matches diventano quasi unicamente un tentativo di mettere in risalto l’azione fisica e l’estetica che essa incorpora.

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Novels # 38: New York in New York


It was (and is) my plan presented in this web space volumes of essays or city guides, but the beauty of blogs is that you can also take some liberties and give the body a number of exceptions that confirm the rule.
The idea was born from this digression to reprint the book of Professor Mario Maffi "Beneath the towers of Manhattan" , now revised and adjusted in the title and becomes, simply, New York . The book was released in 1998 and, as stated by the author nell'inedita chapter titled Time and the City , things will have changed a lot.
It 's true that this is not a novel but it is also true that it is a guide that reads like a novel, with New York the undisputed protagonist of the story with Maffi wandering time and space in the city.
The author tells it, even the shows with a passion that only a city like New York can give. The story of the city goes beyond the geometric map streets and avenues of downtown and uptown and guide us - not only in the topographical sense - even through and in the city: "Maybe this route south to north is somewhat forced and a director at some point you should abandon it, to enjoy Manhattan crosstown , horizontally. Then, one morning, take the 14th or the 23rd or 42th or 57th all ' East end of the island, the sun is behind you and illuminates everything ahead of you, and avviatevi toward the Hudson River, the west end. "
The appearance of the erudite guide, hundreds of facts, names, places, addresses are the frame, solid and timely exposure of a fluid, captivating narrative and tone, with the support of a rich iconographic and visually stimulating .
Maffi love the city and this love leads him to a sincere critique of what is wrong, even dispelling stereotypes about what to see and what you can avoid it, with a popular mission that pushes the reader / visitor to forced exit from the paths of tourism to discover the real city, the urban villages, cafes, markets of English Harlem, the Lower East Side, small parks, places history, short but intense of the Big Apple.
The very name of the chapters divided into Names, Maps, Below, Resorts, Museums, Words (this chapter that tells better than any comment on my blog because it comes as Novels in New York), Pictures, Sounds, Prism, bridges, is symptomatic of the originality of the approach to the city as well as more conventional titles or Museums Maps hidden treasures: "visit the MoMA is a little like sending a postcard to friends witness. Nothing wrong of course. But New York has other little gems that are no less emblematic of the MoMA or the Met ... These little gems are often organized in a different way in an attempt to engage the visitor, to turn it into an active user that is not only exposed, but literally put on stage. "
The fact that many of these chapters are essentially unchanged the first edition is a value-added work, a photograph of New York a few years ago, often different from today and not only because of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers.
Maffi love the city and this love led him to a sincere critique of what is wrong, even dispelling stereotypes about what to see and what you can avoid it, with a mission that drives popular the reader / visitor to leave the beaten track bound tourism to discover the real city.
New York is a city that we all know regardless of whether there was or not. One of the main effects of this book is that people who already visited the city will come back to see what has been lost and who is planning his first trip in the luggage will have the right tools to be a little more travelers and fewer tourists. It is not a trivial matter.
New York, Mario Maffei, Odoya, 2010

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Olympia - Leni Riefenstahl (1938)

(Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker )

Visto in VHS.

Documentario delle olimpiadi del 1938. Diciamolo subito, è un film di propaganda nazista perché è stato voluto e finanziato dai nazisti, ma salvo qualche svastica sulle bandiere e qualche immagine di Hitler (per lo più all’inizio) l’opera non sembra propendere troppo per i padroni di casa, e si limita a fare quello che è nei progetti. Un documentario sulle olimpiadi.

Le sequenze migliori sono quelle initial, where all is beauty and inventiveness, rather than a film where you are in front of a work of visual art. The film begins with the classical representation (Greek) of beauty, a comparison with current athletes and then running the Olympic torch from Olympia to Berlin (the same idea this Riefenstahl and some hierarchy). As I said, a series of stunning sequences, which alone shows the ability of the director.

Then the film actually becomes a documentary. Shows the sequences more interesting (and all finals) of different specialties. The Riefenstahl seems more interested in athletic than you results, but of course there are also races, shown with an array of enviable resources, trolleys, thousands of shots at the same time, close-ups, slow motion and thousands of details (the influence is very evident that the German director has given the royal sport). Although for my personal taste aside purely documentary has the greatest interest in showing the small differences with the present day, from people blockade achieved by digging holes in the ground, the high jump before the method Fosbury .

A very good film that shows great technique and the aesthetic taste of Riefenstahl and, in my view, the insistence of the shots in favor of Owens show some sympathy for the symbol of those Olympic sports that clashes with the idea of \u200b\u200ba director ... political leanings.