At his invitation, Bernardo Bertolucci completed Pier Paolo Pasolini’s script (along with Sergio Citti) and directed the result—beautifully. La commare secca thus became the 21-year-old poet’s auspicious film debut. An immense bridge, glimpsed from below, cuts diagonally through the frame; what resembles a burst of birds turns out to be a flurry of notepad pages […]
Daily Archives: February 8, 2010
Time has deflated the reputation of certain films. When originally released, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s Jigokumon, from Kan (Hiroshi) Kikuchi’s play Kesa’s Husband, won the top prize at Cannes, and the Oscar and the New York critics’ prize as best foreign-language film. Today, it is indeed difficult to grasp that it was regarded as superior to another […]
Dennis Grunes 