Anny
I've been thinking of Catherine Deneuve recently in connection with the
major Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira. He cast her as herself in
his 2003 "A Talking Picture", but his overall management of tone in that
film is virtually unfathomable. She withdrew from his 2007 "Belle
toujours", in which she would have revisited her role in Bunuel's "Belle de
jour", replaced by Bulle Ogier in a fashion for which a number of critics
found justification.
Can you supply more detail about the visit of Marcello Mastroianni to your
home? Which directors wanted to cast your father in their films?
Barry
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 22:52:49 +0200, Anny Ballardini
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I also loved Marcello Mastroianni. Once in my late 20s maybe I went back
>home and he was there chatting with my father, what a beautiful man.
>Everybody liked my father, too. They wanted him for the pictures but he
said
>no.
>I also loved Catherine Deneuve. She had a superb style and was offered some
>years ago a program on television. She was impeccable as a host, an
>exceptional woman.
>
>
>On 8/1/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I COMPAGNI
>>
>> via Mario Monicelli
>>
>>
>> It's so damp in here.
>>
>> Come back down to earth.
>> Out as long as possible
>> may be impossible.
>> Police stopped us.
>> A demonstration:
>> give in first & show them you're acting:
>> now I say let's go back to work:
>> insults here:
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 8-1-07 (2:16 PM)
>>
>>
>> Written during my first viewing of a 1963 film included within the 50th
>> anniversary retrospective of Janus Films now touring North America. One
>> of
>> my favorite actors, Marcello Mastroianni, embodies in a very subtle
>> fashion
>> the role of a labor organizer in late nineteenth century Turin. How I
>> missed this film when it was first distributed by Janus remains unclear,
>> and I was quite uncertain in advance about the prospect of writing until
I
>> could determine whether I had seen it forty years ago and forgotten the
>> experience. Even after I realized that this was an initial viewing, my
>> writing was intermittent, but on reading the first draft, I felt I had
>> somehow snapped a cross-section from the film.
>>
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