tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post634442806833651138..comments2024-01-24T01:27:11.111-05:00Comments on Café Muscato: Can't Help ItMuscatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04657061324487851341noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-47308746414769861932010-02-17T21:14:06.219-05:002010-02-17T21:14:06.219-05:00A very interesting film. I thoroughly enjoyed it!A very interesting film. I thoroughly enjoyed it!Thombeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14610129742797260253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-6517015746081479932010-02-17T11:40:50.775-05:002010-02-17T11:40:50.775-05:00great piece!
in film school, i ran a 16MM print ...great piece! <br /><br />in film school, i ran a 16MM print of "triumph of the will" for an audience of one, me. i was amazed. later, i saw "wonderful, horrible" and it told me all i needed to know.normadesmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17325110017442011627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-22675689336346553142010-02-17T10:33:28.414-05:002010-02-17T10:33:28.414-05:00You mean Mel Gibson isn't it?
Perhaps it'...You mean Mel Gibson isn't it?<br /><br />Perhaps it's just the context, but in the film itself I mostly found myself surprised at how hokey many of Riefenstahl's famous innovations (the use of crowds, the moving camera, the angles from which she shot both Nazis and athletes) came off. She herself is fascinating but dreadful. <br /><br />Like most direct exposure to Third-Reichiana, it sends me back to the diaries of Marie Vassiltchikov for a reality check of what a genuinely intelligent person thought of the third-rateness of all things Nazi.Muscatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657061324487851341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-58285520827304055742010-02-17T09:06:54.144-05:002010-02-17T09:06:54.144-05:00I might just have to add that to the NetFlix cue. ...I might just have to add that to the NetFlix cue. It has always terrified me how watchable her Nazi era work was. What could happen if the Religious Right ever find a filmmaker like that?Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01851297819829806798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-30688049498562206912010-02-17T01:00:02.477-05:002010-02-17T01:00:02.477-05:00Leo Lerman,in "The Grand Surprise: The Journ...Leo Lerman,in "The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman," Dec. 30, 1973:<br /><br />"She is old, spoiled, stupid, and quite frequently drunk. Such a topple from tipple--a result not a cause. She's to be pitied, for she lived by and from her beauty--not her true beauty, of which she had much, but the artifice which her fans saw, applauded, and paid for....Marlene's center was her insatiable narcissism--her "beauty"--and this is now gone, this center, although she can counterfeit it for huge audiences. I am almost always sad for one who has lost his kingdom--his domain....The possibility: Nothing exists save one's self."edfunoreply@blogger.com