Vitro Nasu

See the film on youtube (part I)

Marlene by Maximillian Schell

The film consists of voice interviews between Schell and Dietrich in which she often ignores his questions, makes acerbic comments about, among other things, some of the people she has worked with and some of the books written about her life and films. In the process, she touches on the subjects of life and death, reality and illusion and the nature of stardom. By her very reluctance to reveal much about herself, she gives one a much deeper understanding of her character than if she had participated in a more conventional format.

Happy birthday Maximillian Schell (He is a godparent to Angelina Jolie. He was great in Julia and Little Odessa)

Tribute page to Maximillian

Alma Agee, James Agee and Delmore Schwartz -(Photovia )

Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966)

Poetry foundation

In 1975, when Saul Bellow’s novel, Humboldt’s Gift, was published by Viking, Karyl Roosevelt stated that the protagonist Humboldt was “a thinly disguised portrait of the late poet Delmore Schwartz, with whom Bellow had a complex friendship in real life.”

Sad Men – Delmore Schwartz

The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital
By Delmore Schwartz

The mind is a city like London,
Smoky and populous: it is a capital
Like Rome, ruined and eternal,
Marked by the monuments which no one
Now remembers. For the mind, like Rome, contains
Catacombs, aqueducts, amphitheatres, palaces,
Churches and equestrian statues, fallen, broken or soiled.
The mind possesses and is possessed by all the ruins
Of every haunted, hunted generation’s celebration.

“Call us what you will: we are made such by love.”
We are such studs as dreams are made on, and
Our little lives are ruled by the gods, by Pan,
Piping of all, seeking to grasp or grasping
All of the grapes; and by the bow-and-arrow god,
Cupid, piercing the heart through, suddenly and forever.

Dusk we are, to dusk returning, after the burbing,
After the gold fall, the fallen ash, the bronze,
Scattered and rotten, after the white null statues which
Are winter, sleep, and nothingness: when
Will the houselights of the universe
Light up and blaze?
For it is not the sea
Which murmurs in a shell,
And it is not only heart, at harp o’clock,
It is the dread terror of the uncontrollable
Horses of the apocalypse, running in wild dread
Toward Arcturus—and returning as suddenly…

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Oscar Niemeyer dies at 104

Architects, critics pay tributes to Oscar Niemeyer

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Oscar Niemeyer – A Memory of Bienneial Sao Paulo

The Man from Rio – Niemeyer

Dave Brubeck
1967
Disbands the Quartet and forms a new Quartet with Jack Six on bass and Alan Dawson on drums, featuring Gerry Mulligan on Baritone.
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Dave Brubeck Legendary Jazz Pianist Dies At 91

Jazz Impressions Of Japan – Zen is When

Osaka blues

Bruce Lee
Yip Man (1 October 1893 – 2 December 1972), also spelled as Ip Man,[1] and also known as Yip Kai-Man, was a Chinese martial artist.

Tony Leung was Wong Kar-wai’s only choice to play Ip Man. Wong Kar-wai said, “I want to remove everything that Tony Leung had and shape him anew into another person.” He invited Ip Man’s final disciple Leung Siu-hung to teach Tony Leung the ways of Wing Chun. Master Leung had high praise for Leung. “To someone who has never studied martial art, Mr. Leung has a lot of potential. When you teach him a set, he understands what follows and kills three birds with one stone. He has this kind of potential and the material to learn kung fu.”
Tony Leung’s three years of training was also unveiled for the first time in the documentary. He said, “The director and I hope through the training process to experience the personality of a true martial artist, from which to shape a master image that has both flesh and blood.” With the upcoming film release, Tony Leung said that he was not nervous. He only hoped that viewers would not watch this film with just the idea of watching an Ip Man movie, because anyone who knew Wong Kar-wai knew that he definitely had his own way to innovate and open everyone’s eyes.
(Wong Kar Wai – net)

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Young Bruce Lee film trailer