You're welcome, Anny. Though he's not pantomiming, Manoel de Oliverira can
also be viewed as a remarkably alert man in his nineties by clicking on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQmN_uGWwU&NR=1
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp5Xm70a_3g&mode=related&search=
Since the term "pantomime" surfaced in the critical discourse which has
already arisen in response to the overt relation between "Belle Toujours"
& "Belle de jour", I chose to refer the list first to a clip in which the
director as actor works that vein. Ekphrastic would be my designation for
the stance de Oliveira takes towards Bunuel's earlier film. As I remember
it, "Lisbon Story" by Wim Wenders was shot in a contemporary (early 90's)
style; only de Oliveira's cameo is rendered as if it came from the silent
era, or, more precisely, from the transition period between silent & sound
films, invoking de Oliveira's acting role in Portugal's first feature film
with sound as well as the primitive ambient sound & voiceover evident in
his first directorial effort, "Labour on the Douro" (1931). I like what
directors such as Bill Morrison and Peter Delpeut have done with literally
decaying footage they have unearthed in film archives to evoke just those
qualities you describe. Barry
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:09:56 +0200, Anny Ballardini
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Thank you for that glimpse of Manoel de Oliveira. What an old film can do
to
>project the feeling of the transience of life, a deep longing, and the
>beauty of what does not exist any more _ or if it exists, not the same at
>our eyes.
>
>On 6/6/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> BELLE TOUJOURS
>>
>> via Manoel de Oliveira
>>
>>
>> But . . . hold on.
>> Excuse me.
>> Lifts are on the left.
>> Lucky I came in here.
>> Exactement.
>>
>> That made me very curious
>> of customers; feel the need to confess
>> unbalanced sexuality.
>> Just drink till the end
>> of thirst,
>> understand,
>> resident in his expressionistic face:
>> saints were sinners.
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 6-5-07 (7:02 PM)
>>
>>
>> Watch this cameo appearance of the major Portuguese director Manoel de
>> Oliveira in Wim Wenders' 1994 "Lisbon Story"
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87mRFMdFAgk
>>
>> and imagine how, at age 98, he directs a film in which two major figures
>> in
>> Luis Bunuel's "Belle de jour" encounter each other unexpectedly 38 years
>> later.
>>
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