samedi 16 juillet 2011
l'acteur ne fait pas le cinéma
....je reformule aussi ma réponse, qui vaut ce qu'elle vaut, qui vaut ce que je vaux: le jeu des acteurs, quoi qu'on en pense, a toujours eu très peu à voir avec l'essence du cinéma, du temps où le cinéma était cet art d'usine qu'on tant et tant aimé .... c'est à dire que les acteurs, en tant qu'ils sont dirigés, n'ont rien, ou presque rien, à voir avec ce qui faisait les grands films ... welles étant une exception grandiose et aberrante ....
le foie gras mortel d'akim tamiroff dans mr arkadin/confidential report( (orson welles) .... (vienna or yiddish poland as seen through welles' theatrical baby eyes .... )
le cinéma était, est, et restera ... un mystère .... un accident industriel dû à des magiciens inconséquents, inconscients, salariés au mois pour la plupart ....
suis-je plus clair, oui ou non?
le cinéma doit-il à tout prix être mal joué?
the naked dawn/le bandit (arthur kennedy/allan dwan, 1953)
sous le pseudo de nina et herman schneider, se cache julian halevy zimet, scénariste marxiste et verbeux, mis sur la liste noire du sénateur mc carthy .... le film est sublime ... arthur kennedy, qui a été finement dirigé par minnelli, n'a jamais été aussi mauvais ... tournage trop rapide ... ou bêtise d'ulmer? ou quoi?
voici maintenant quelques minutes d'un feuilleton anglais (merci à kapellmeister), mille fois mieux joué que le bandit, avec un sens de l'intelligiblité plus technique que les vieux codes de jeux hollywoodiens ne le permettaient ... qu'est-ce que celà prouve?
orson welles talks about alain cavalier
If we do meet again, why we shall smile/If not, why then this parting was well made (brutus à cassius dans jules césar .... )
I'm going to stop just here, not only because our time is almost up, but because at this point in the discussion, the Boston film buffs veered away from the subject of OTHELLO. If I've evaded any of their questions, or any of yours, it's not by design. Maybe I should have read into the record some of the things the critics have said against OTHELLO. You might have found that informative. I would have found it depressing. I'm very much afraid that under the banner of fair play, and the interest of what's called a balanced judgment, I couldn't have resisted reading you some of the good stuff as well. Anyway it's an argument that still goes on and on. I spared you both sides of it, and I don't know if I was mistaken. Maybe an anthology of critical reviews might have been rewarding, but after all this is supposed to be my voice on the subject, so that's what you've had. I've tried to be as candid as I can. You won't have expected me to be objective. I started by calling this a conversation, but I'm afraid what you've had is mostly a scrambled, disjointed series of notes. I've been coming at our subject from every conceivable direction of the compass, and I might have put a better shape to this if I had relentlessly pursued a single theme, but that would have neglected all the other themes. I just don't know. In trying to say too much, I may have said too little.
Of course, my film did not do justice to the play. It is my film and it is Shakespeare's play. No film, indeed no stage production could ever do true justice to that play. No actor ever did full justice to the part. I ask myself now, if I've done justice here in my own movie. I don't mean in the value I may sometimes rather coyly have placed upon it. I just mean this discussion. Now, let's try to sum it up. First, how the picture was made. That story you remember. An Italian producer dreaming of Verdi's OTELLO, and neglecting to mention that he was about to go into bankruptcy, stranded our whole company in a small town off the coast of Africa. With a little money of my own, all I had and absolutely no costumes whatsoever, we improvised our way for awhile, then stopped for awhile and I had to go to work as an actor in other films, in order to earn enough to continue with my own. That went on and on, and repeated itself several times, and it meant that OTHELLO was made so to speak, on the installment plan. This and other circumstances did impose a method and style of shooting, which was contrary to what had been carefully planned. For a description of the finished result, I brought you those critical appreciations, that correspond fairly closely to my own ideas. Some thoughts on the interpretation have come from a couple of the leading actors, with some additions of my own. All judgments having been avoided, I leave you with this confession. This hasn't been as easy as I might have wished. Their are too many regrets, there are too many things I wish I could have done over again. If it wasn't a memory, if it was a project for the future, talking about OTHELLO would have been nothing but delight. After all, promises are more fun than explanations. In all my heart, I wish that I wasn't looking back on OTHELLO, but looking forward to it. That OTHELLO would be one hell of a picture. Goodnight.
www.ubu.com/film/welles_oneman.html
(the one man band, un beau documentaire sur les "inédits" de welles, ses farces et ses facéties, avec oja kodar en madame loyal)
summer 1997
Tough Mama
Meat shakin’ on your bones
I’m gonna go down to the river and get some stones
Sister’s on the highway with that steel-drivin’ crew
Papa’s in the big house, his workin’ days are through
Tough Mama
Can I blow a little smoke on you?
tough mama / from planet waves (1973)/Hershey, USA, 13 august 1997
Dark Beauty
Won’t you move it on over and make some room?
It’s my duty to bring you down to the field where the flowers bloom
Ashes in the furnace, dust on the rise
You came through it all the way, flyin’ through the skies
Dark Beauty
With that long night’s journey in your eyes
Sweet Goddess
Born of a blinding light and a changing wind
Now, don’t be modest, you know who you are and where you’ve been
Jack the Cowboy went up north
He’s buried in your past
The Lone Wolf went out drinking
That was over pretty fast
Sweet Goddess
Your perfect stranger’s comin’ in at last
Silver Angel
With the badge of the lonesome road sewed in your sleeve
I’d be grateful if this golden ring you would receive
Today on the countryside it was a-hotter than a crotch
I stood alone upon the ridge and all I did was watch
Sweet Goddess
It must be time to carve another notch
I’m crestfallen
The world of illusion is at my door
I ain’t a-haulin’ any of my lambs to the marketplace anymore
The prison walls are crumblin’, there is no end in sight
I’ve gained some recognition but I lost my appetite
Dark Beauty
Meet me at the border late tonight
BONUS SUMMER 1997, when dylan was still young and rocking
you ain't goin' nowhere/silvio
(Hershey, USA, 13 august 1997
ROCKING BONUS 2000
leopard skin pill box hat (september 24, 2000)
stockholm, 2007
mercredi 13 juillet 2011
the saga of anatahan
the saga of anatahan (joseph von sternberg, 1953)
.... dans une île perdue du pacifique, un groupe de japonais croit que la guerre continue, des années après la défaite du japon .... à l'époque, après une fantaisie inutile, jet pilot, sternberg ne tournait plus ... il avait abandonné le cinéma ... vieux, vaniteux, prétentieux, il m'avait montré une porte sculptée de ses vieilles mains tremblotantes en me disant: "voilà ma nouvelle oeuvre, la dernière ....." ... anatahan est sculpté comme une vieille porte ... ... joseph von sternberg avait construit une jungle de studio .... dans une jungle réelle, sur une île perdue ... .... sa volonté de contrôle était absolue: il avait tout signé: la photo, les décors, le montage, le maquillage, les costumes, le scénario ... c'est un film de pur cinéma, de pure magie .... on peut dire que c'est son plus beau film .... on peut aussi dire que c'est son seul film ...
lundi 27 juin 2011
en 1997, ces 28 chansons, comme pour la toute dernière fois ....
just before old bobby nearly died of a very rare heart infection, that is just before he nearly met Him face to face ....
et quelques semaines plus tard, à bologne, il chante (devant le pape jean-paul 2) qu'il frappe devant la porte du paradis ... un vrai mélo, un vrai western ....
she belongs to me (scranton,spring 1997 ... .... maybe)
under the red skies / senor
gambling man/masters of war
i'm younger than that now/positively 4th street
memphis blues again (out of mobile with the)/it sparkles before she speaks
lay, lady, lay/maggie's farm
it's late ... ... .../cocaïne
white dove/i and i
to ramona/till i fell in love with you
highway 61/don't think twice, it's alright
tonight, i'll be stayin' here with you/cold irons bound
tangled up in blue/silvio
blind willie mctell/shelter from the storm
live at the fisher auditorium, philadelphia, 22 avril 1997/pledging my time/absolutely sweet marie
tough mama
27 SEPTEMBRE 1997, BOLOGNE
stockholm, mars 2007
dylan as emmett miller
here's an extraordinary glasgow 2004 version of cry a while, most difficult song to sing with it's changing rhythms, both accelerating and slowing down its own diction .... ..... one of dylan's fabulous emmett miller influenced compositions from 2002's "love and theft" ... here at it's best ...
bob dylan, juin 2011
cold irons bound, londres, finsbury park (feist), 19 juin 2011
she just acts like we never have met/hambourg, dimanche 26 juin 2011
simple twist of fate, londres, finsbury park (feist), 19 juin 2011/forgetful heart (juin 2011)
NEW HOLLIS1960 REAL UNSHAVEN CLOSE UP VERSION OF A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE (CORK, 16 JUNE 2011)
it's a hard, hard, rain's-a-gonna fall/sursee, 24 juin 2011
...
NEW HOLLIS1960 REAL UNSHAVEN CLOSE UP VERSION OF SPANISH BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER (Odense, 27 JUIN 2011 )
all along the watchtower (OSLO, 30 juin 2011)
ALL FINSBURY PARK CONCERT IS ON JUNE 27
dylan 1997 (bonus)
" 1997 Albany NY State I think.", says hollis 1960 of this lovely version of the elizabeth cotten song, babe it ain't no lie ... belongs to the set of great spring 1997 "sick songs" i love so much ... check 28 others on june 27 ...
finsbury park, l'intégrale
1. intro. 2. gonna change my way of thinkin' 3. it's all over now baby blue
4. things have changed .... 5. tangled up in blue
(A SUIVRE)
en 1997, ces 28 chansons, comme pour la toute dernière fois ....
shelter from the storm ........ ...... strangest version ever ....
.... .... c'était juste avant ces étranges problèmes de santé, vous vous rappelez, c'était juste avant ces étranges problèmes de santé, vous vous rappelez, il avait été atteint d'histoplasmosis, cette maladie raririssime qui affecte le coeur, il avait failli mourir .... ... it was just before the strange health problem he had later that year.." ....
just before old bobby nearly died of a very rare brain infection, that is just before he nearly met Him face to face ....
et quelques semaines plus tard, à bologne, il chante (devant le pape jean-paul 2) qu'il frappe devant la porte du paradis ... un vrai mélo, un vrai western ....
TOUTES CES CHANSONS, CES 28 CHANSONS DE REVE, SONT reportées AU 27 JUIN
london, 2000, dylan sang ...
trying to get to heaven/before they close the door/glasgow, 2004
There's a rumbling in the skies
I've been wading through the high muddy water
With the heat rising in my eyes
Every day your memory grows dimmer
It doesn't haunt me like it did before
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
When I was in Missouri
They would not let me be
I had to leave there in a hurry
I only saw what they let me see
You broke a heart that loved you
Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore
I've been walking that lonesome valley
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
People on the platforms
Waiting for the trains
I can hear their hearts a-beatin'
Like pendulums swinging on chains
When you think that you lost everything
You find out you can always lose a little more
I'm just going down the road feeling bad
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
I'm going down the river
Down to New Orleans
They tell me everything is gonna be all right
But I don't know what "all right" even means
I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary-Jane
Miss Mary-Jane got a house in Baltimore
I been all around the world, boys
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Gonna sleep down in the parlor
And relive my dreams
I'll close my eyes and I wonder
If everything is as hollow as it seems
Some trains don't pull no gamblers
No midnight ramblers, like they did before
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door
robyn hitchcock's fabulous version with david rawlings and gillian welch:
http://youtu.be/JbT-V8FLFeI
same session, cry a while
1963
... john coltrane was playing, johnny hartman taking his time before and between the notes, and the soudtrack softly and slowly whispered that my only love (at the time, it did make sense) was movies .... i was living at errol flynn's old love house on 8425 beverly hills, next to ciro's, where i'd go see sonny and cher two tyears later, in july 1965, same year i witnessed john coltrane in chicago, playing worse than alix combelle on a real bad day, while archie schepp (whom i interviewed a few days later, high on acid, and really making sense), who was playing with old coltrane managed to surpass both albert ayler and lucky thompson ....
le grand cinéma est-il d'extrême droite?
tourneur/mitchum, 1947
Kirk Douglas en fait trop, Mitchum pas assez (comme toujours), et Tourneur ne fait pas assez durer le plaisir au Mexique, pays riche encore de son exotique sauvagerie. Le film fait une heure quarante, un classique français na pas besoin de tant de temps.
in les 4 vérités hebdo, journal d'extrême droite en ligne aux accents très PRESENCE DU CINEMA (nicolas bonnal, lundi 27 juin 2011)
a cottage for sale, part three
frankie laine, torch singer/sam brown, best early crooner's version (1930)
best old time version ever: the velvet fog himself, mel tormé
" invraisemblable ou pas, crois-moi, c'est la vérité -et il n'y en a pas deux ..."