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Oharu 
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi , Tanaka Kinuyo as Oharu.. she was his muse.
(Toshiro Mifune and Kinuyo Tanaka in Wedding Ring)
Dragnet 
Girl
Ozu’s silent film.
Kinuyo Tanaka, Women film Pioneer Project, Columbia Edu
The Life of Oharu, Mifune Toshiro and Kinuyo Tanaka directed by Mizoguchi
(Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller: The Cast of “Beyond the Fringe)
BBC obit
Jonathan Miller, director and humorist, dies at 85
Jonathan Miller and The Kinds of Genius
(Jonathan Miller directs Mikado)
(Prince de Hombourg – 1952 Festival du Avignon – Gerard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau)
Photo by Agnes Varda
He died from liver cancer while working on a film project in Paris, a few days short of his 37th birthday. (His doctors concealed from him the nature of his disease.) In accordance with his last wishes, he is buried, dressed in the costume of Don Rodrigue (The Cid), in the village cemetery in Ramatuelle, Var near the Mediterranean Sea coast (via wiki)
Books & G.P.
Gérard Philipe posing for a campaign to promote reading, 1949-1950 by Lucien Lorelle
La Ronde
Gérard Philipe – Monsieur Ripois 1954 – Director: René Clément
“Everything rings true in this totally false film. Everything is illuminated in this obscure film. For he who leaps into the void owes no explanations to those who watch.” Jean Luc Godard
Montparnasse 19 was originally to have been directed by Max Ophüls with a script by Henri Jeanson. Becoming ill, Ophüls turned the project over to Jacques Becker. Dissatisfied with Jeanson’s script, Becker re-wrote the scenario. (Leap into the Void, Godard and the Painter)
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Gérard Philipe and Micheline Presle in an adaptation of Radiguet’s novel, Devil in the flesh. (1947)
(France was slowly overcoming a murderous war, its veterans were revered, the adultry of a soldier’s wife was intolerable. via.)
The novel is described as,
an extraordinary mixture of perception and brutality, tenderness and heartlessness. (via)
(With Gina Lollobrigida in Fan Fan La Tulipe.)
CHINA – MARCH 26: The French Actor Gerard Philipe, His Wife Anne Philipe And The Chinese General And Statesman, Chou En-Lai In Peking On March 26, 1957. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
(Philip Seymour Hoffman with German cast)
A Most Wanted Man – Peter Bradshaw
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s superb swansong
(Photo of John Le Carre by Lord Snowdon)
John Le Carre on Philip Seymour Hoffman
John Le Carre explains the novel – A Most Wanted Man
(Willem Dafoe played the banker)
Benjamin Britten (22 November 1913)
Rebels with a cause: the friendship of Britten and Shostokovich
‘Love’s a little boy’
Alan Bennett’s new play imagines a meeting between Britten and Auden 25 years after they fell out irrevocably. But why did their creative relationship go wrong?
Hoagy Carmichael
November 22, 1899
Hoagy Carmichael
Notes on mourning. By Roland Barthes
September 6, 2010
Roland Barthes – A Cruel Country – The New Yorker
What I hide by my language, my body utters (See a Necktie Skirt)
Jacques Derrida paid ironic homage to Barthes’ “The Death of the Author” in his essay “The Deaths of Roland Barthes”
(Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva in China, 1974)
Iconographie (more photos)
Neil Young in the desert, photo by Dennis Hopper
Happy birthday Neil Young!
The fall of the Berlin Wall, on 9 November 1989, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain.
Keith Haring was there in 1986.
(Keith Haring painting his Berlin Wall Mural, 1986
Photo: Vladimir Sichov/vladimirsichov.me)
See more photos and read about Keith Haring Berlin Wall Art
The destruction of the painting
Unfortunately, the 300-meter stretch Haring had painted the mural was vandalized, destroyed and painted over by other artists by the time the wall came down on 9 November 1991. Although the actual mural is no longer there, Keith Haring is often given credit for agitating for free movement of East Berliners to the Federal Republic of West Germany.
Keith 
and Tseng Kwong Chi
How Keith Haring’s Art forced us to talk about Aids
Keith Haring, William S. Burroughs and John Giorno, photo by Tseng Kwong Chi.
Reda Kateb and Viggo Mortensen from Far from Men
David Oelhoffen’s latest film, Far From Men, is based on Albert Camus’ short story “The Guest.” Set during the Algerian War and shot in the manner of a Western, the film features a French and Arabic-speaking Viggo Mortensen as Daru, a schoolteacher in remote Algeria required, against his will, to transport murderous prisoner Mohamed (Reda Kateb) to meet his justice. The two men must confront their own morality and each other against a backdrop of the Atlas Mountains.
Reda Kateb describes him as “like an actor-citizen in his sense of responsibility”.
That kind of immersion means that his roles, especially if they are physically or emotionally gruelling, become part of his life. His last spoken-word album, Under the Weather, was dedicated to Albert Camus, whom he greatly admires for taking a principled stance against Stalin even though it cost him his closest friendships on the French left. “He suffered during his lifetime by being honest, by being true to himself, by staying in the moment,” says Mortensen reverently.(Mortensen on Camus via )
Reading 
Alajbegovic was at Columbia to meet the actor Viggo Mortensen, who, that evening, was to reënact a lecture that Camus had given at the university during his trip, on no less a topic than “The Crisis of Humankind.” Camus’s daughter, Catherine, who also lives in Lourmarin, had sensed something in Mortensen’s pensive performance in a film adaptation of her father’s short story “The Guest.” Alajbegovic had reached out to Mortensen—“I just threw my bottle at Viggo’s sea,” he said—and a week later had a response in the affirmative.
After the talk, which he delivered before an enchanted crowd, Mortensen suddenly realized he had to get going. As part of his attire for the evening, he’d left off an article of clothing that he holds dear—his Bernie Sanders watch.
Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa: A Friendship Nearly Lost to Art History
Even decades after Saburo Hasegawa’s death, the artist and designer Isamu Noguchi would describe his friendship with Hasegawa as an “everlasting conversation.”
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Saburo Hasegawa, Isamu Noguchi and YoshikoYamaguchi at Uransenke Konnichi-an estate,Kyoto, c. 1952
Tea Ceremony At Eames house
Drinking Tea Tom Sachs (see many photos, including Isamu Noguchi, Charlie Chaplin tea ceremony photo).
Noguchi went to the Camp to help (New Yorker)
Noguchi Garden 
Isamu Noguchi previous post (See his Rose Garden in Jerusalem)
Yoshiko Yamaguchi 
and Isamu Noguchi
Photo by Fung Lin Hall
November
Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.
A few incisive mornings,
A few ascetic eyes, —
Gone Mr. Bryant’s golden-rod,
And Mr. Thomson’s sheaves.
Still is the bustle in the brook,
Sealed are the spicy valves;
Mesmeric fingers softly touch
The eyes of many elves.
Perhaps a squirrel may remain,
My sentiments to share.
Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind,
Thy windy will to bear!
Emily D on November and Norway
(By Sadie Stein – Paris Review)
Emily Dickinson’s: “November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
