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martedì 16 aprile 2013

Hitchcock



"I'm just a man hiding in the corner, with a camera... watching." 

Il Lincoln di Spielberg e la Marilyn di Simon Curtis ci avevano già tratto in inganno, eppure il meccanismo continua a ripetersi: lavorare sulla biografia di personaggio immortale puntando i riflettori su un evento fondamentale che possa farsi summa della sua personalità sembra all'apparenza un lavoro più semplice rispetto alla trasposizione sullo schermo di un'intera vita, ma il rischio di caricare gli eventi di un peso eccessivo e forzare la mano è sempre dietro l'angolo: scelto da Sasha Gervasi come suo esordio alla regia di un soggetto di finzione dopo una prova documentaristica, Hitchcock prende in prestito il titolo dal suo eponimo protagonista ma abbandona immediatamente la via del biopic tradizionale optando per  un più gustoso backstage sulla lavorazione di Psycho, uno dei suoi capolavori più discussi e amati, ma anche e soprattutto del suo rapporto con la moglie Alma Reville, sodalizio privato e professionale che vede la donna in un ruolo determinante non solo per la carriera e le scelte di Hitch ma anche per la materiale realizzazione dei suoi film; la ricetta è gustosa per qualunque cinefilo ansioso di scoprire dettagli e curiosità inedite su un regista fondamentale e su una delle pietre miliari della storia del cinema, ma perde inevitabilmente di sapore quando lascia terreno alla crisi coniugale e al zoppicante tentativo di filtrare i turbamenti e le ossessioni di una vita attraverso un'unica opera del Maestro.

sabato 11 agosto 2012

Soulmates

"Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under my feet. I want to walk up Berkeley Square and down Wimpole Street and stand in St. Paul's where John Donne preached and sit on the step Elizabeth sat on when she refused to enter the Tower, and like that. A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature, and he said:
"Then it's there."



"[...]I take time out from housecleaning my bookshelves and sitting on the rug surrounded by books in every direction to scrawl you a Bon Voyage. I hope you and Brian have a ball in London. He said to me on the phone: "Would you go with us if you had the fare?" and I nearly wept.
But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there."
Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. Looking around the rug one thing's for sure: it's here."



I should have watched this movie a long time ago. 
I mean, it's clearly MY MOVIE.
IT SUMS EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING ABOUT ME.
IT'S LIKE MY MOVIE SOULMATE. 
Just let me love this movie forever.

domenica 18 settembre 2011

Of love and suffering

"Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal. "





lunedì 29 agosto 2011

Atlantis

" Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been? then we grow up and our hearts break into two. [...]
 I never heard from Ted Brautigan again. Not that I didn't think of him. I always have. I always will. Because that summer was the last of my childhood. And though I never again saw what people were thinking, there was an enduring gift that he left me. What Ted did was open my eyes, and let the future in. I wouldn't have missed a minute of it. Not for all the world. "


 



  


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