ph: Federico De Angelis
Friday, February 24, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
New York
New York, May-June 1943. "Many accidents are attributed to unpatrolled intersections in Harlem. Here schoolchildren are allowed to run across busy intersections unescorted." Photo by Gordon Parks for the OWI
Domicile conjugal (1970)
Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel and Christine Darbon are married and Antoine works dying flowers.
Fluid and entertaining continuation of the Antoine story.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
New York
New York. December 5, 1933. "Rockefeller Center and RCA Building from 515 Madison Avenue."Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
First Lines: Vladimir Nabokov - Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
'All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike,' says a great Russian writer in the beginning of a famous novel (Anna Arkadievitch Karenina, transfigured into English by R. G. Stonelower, Mount Tabor Ltd., 1880).
Invictus (2009)
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Uplifting true story competently staged with 2 great lead performances.
