September 10th 2013. Pick Of The Day.
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Slim pickings for classic film aficionados today, but what's there is cherce. Today's lone continuing series is MoMA's Auteurist History of Film Reprise. The full list as follows;
Film Forum
CONTEMPT (1963) Dir Jean-Luc Godard
MoMA
THE WORD (ORDET) (1955) Dir; Carl Theodore Dreyer
LA STRADA (1954) Dir; Federico Fellini
Today's Pick? I gotta go with Fellini's LA STRADA at MoMA. The maestro's masterpiece, inaugural winner of the Academy's Best Foreign Film Oscar, marked the true beginning of the style he would become famous for, an adherence to the Italian neo-realism he'd cut his teeth on as writer in post-occupation Italy blended with a growing predilection for increasingly fanciful characters and surrealist presentation. Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina turn in ace work as a brutish circus strongman and his naive charge, and Nino Rota's score haunts still. Can't I just sell the happy? Hey, I'm a Yankee fan, why should you have any fun?
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-Joe Walsh
