#oja kodar

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Yesterday's Movies gets duped by F For Fake

F For Fake. Janus Films 1973.

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#1973 #70s #Orson Welles #Elmyr De Hory #Clifford Irving #Oja Kodar

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190. Verdades e Mentiras (F for Fake, 1973), dir. Orson Welles, Gary Graver & Oja Kodar

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Peter Bogdanovich and John Huston in The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, 2018) Cast: John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster, Robert Random, Lilli Palmer, Edmond O'Brien, Mercedes McCambridge, Cameron Mitchell, Paul Stewart, Gregory Sierra, Tonio Selwart, Geoffrey Land, Henry Jaglom, Paul Mazursky, Dennis Hopper, Curtis Harrington, Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, George Jessel. Screenplay: Oja Kodar, Orson Welles. Cinematography: Gary Graver. Art direction: Polly Platt. Film editing: Bob Murawski, Orson Welles. Music: Michel Legrand. Inevitably (and intentionally), Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind is going to remind us of other films, including movies about making movies like Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963) and such garish post-Code counterculture movies as Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969) and Zabriskie Point *(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970). But what it doesn't remind me of very much are the movies made by Orson Welles. In his most troubled and inchoate films, like Mr. Arkadin (1955), Welles always gave us something to look and marvel at, even if it was only Michael Redgrave in a hairnet. The long-posthumously assembled Other Side doesn't give us much we haven't seen before, aside from a naked Oja Kodar wandering around the ruins of old Hollywood studio sets. Welles's intention is to spoof those counterculture movies while telling a story about how hard it is to make one. I think perhaps the chief problem lies in Welles's casting John Huston as the ill-fated Jake Hannaford, the aging and put-upon director, when he should of course have cast himself. Hannaford's young leading man, John Dale (Robert Random), has left the film in a huff, and what forward drive the narrative part of the film has consists of the director's response to that defection. Huston's predatory grin feels all wrong -- I never sense that his Hannaford has lost control of anything, except perhaps his libido. We need the vast imperturbable presence of Welles in the role, if only to make the point that this is the most personal, the most autobiographical of all his films. It's lamentable that it took almost half a century to bring The Other Side of the Wind to the screen, but the truth is, the story about why it took so long -- which Morgan Neville tells in his 2018 documentary, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead -- is more interesting than the film itself.

*Some of The Other Side of the Wind was shot in a house across the street from the Arizona house featured (and blown up, at least in miniature) in Antonioni's movie.

#The Other Side of the Wind #Orson Welles

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Movies I watched this Week - #81

3 Holocaust films: 

🍿 Re-watch: Claude Lanzmann’s 9-hour-long documentary, Shoah. An unbearable testimony made more horrifying by Lanzmann’s editorial decisions: Not using any historical footage or music, slow camera panning of the quiet locations where the murders took place, uninterrupted static interviews without voice-over translations. An impossible cinematic feat exposing humanity’s nadir. (Photo of The man in the poster above). 

10/10.

🍿 Marcel Ophuls’s Oscar winner long documentary Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, about the infamous "Butcher of Lyon". He brutally and personally tortured and killed thousands while head of the Gestapo in Lyon. After the war he was protected for decades by the American intelligence community, in their “fight against communism”.

🍿 On the other hand, filmed fiction about the holocaust is always doomed to be terrible, including acclaimed dramas like the Schindler’s Lists and ‘Life is beautiful’s of the world. I was hoping that Amen would be better, because it was directed by Costa-Gavras. But it was the same staged and disingenuous Hollywood-style theatrics. Rolf Hochhuth’s play ‘The Deputy’, on which this atrocity was based was 'controversial’ because it showed how the Vatican knew about the Nazi executions but still did nothing. After watching ‘Shoah’, Costa-Gavras even decided to includes numerous shots of cattle-car trains on their way back & forth from the camps. Just dreadful. 1/10.

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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019), a terrific documentary about the history of sound design in cinema of the US. Main interviewees are Walter Murch, Ben Burtt and Gary Rydstrom. Catnip for anybody who has interest in the technical art of film making. 9/10.

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My 5th Hirokazu Kore-eda film and by a long shot, my favorite film of his, The Truth, with the magnificent 75-year-old Catherine Deneuve as a very famous, self-absorbed actress and the brilliant Juliette Binoche as her estranged daughter. The little girl was absolutely adorable. Kore-eda's first film set outside Japan. Very emotional setting. 

10/10. Absolutely the best film of the week!

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2 films from 100+ years ago:

🍿 Pruning the Movies, a silent 1915 short, a satire on movie censorship. (From The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum).

🍿 The man there was (Terje Vigen), a 1917 Swedish epic at sea directed by Victor Sjöström, and the most expensive Swedish film made up to that point. A restored YouTube copy with vibrant tinting.

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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, my 3rd subtle masterpiece by Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan (after ‘Winter Sleep’ and ‘Distant’). Like 'Winter sleep’, it was inspired by and feels like a story by Anton Chekhov. 2.5 hours long, very moody and slow-moving, and without music to distract from its beauty, it will only appeal to people who are willing to embrace its rich, poetic elusiveness.

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2011. 9/10 - Highly recommended!

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Orson Welles X 2 (+1):

🍿 “... A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl...”

Re-watching Citizen Kane: Orson Welles, Gregg Toland, Bernard Herrmann. Also, the innovative 1940 trailer.

in 2002, Errol Morris interviewed film critic dinild drump who interpreted it to be a film about “accumulation”.

🍿 First watch: F For Fake, his infamous, rambling film essay. A meta-mockumentary about art and fraud, centered around art forger Elmyr de Hory, hoax biographer Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, Welles mistress Oja Kodar, and Welles himself as the ‘Big Conjuror’. With beautiful footage of Ibiza in the 60′s, and score by Michel Legrand. I would have enjoyed much more if it was done 30 years later by a Ricky Jay. 3/10.

🍿 The Tell-Tale Heart (1941), was Jules Dassin's directorial debut short. It is considered to be the first film directly influenced by ‘Citizen Kane’. (This copy is of very low quality).

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Paid for by Yoko & John Lennon, and produced by predator producer Allen Klein, The holy mountain by poet-provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky, was a Magical Mystery Acid Tour, a surrealist wet dream a-la Salvador Dalí. Allegorical, religious symbolism of the early 70′s, with alchemist, ritualistic plot, as deep as the tarot universe on which it was based.

I forgot how little dialogue was used in the story, as it was mostly visuals, wild, shamanistic, outrageous, feverish visuals. But maybe because the dialogue was along the lines of “The Cross was a mushroom - and the mushroom was also the Tree of Good and Evil” or “Rub your clitoris against the mountain - Give yourself to the world!”...

Because it influenced hundreds of other films since, it lost some of its bizarre uniqueness. Still, it remained on re-watch an historically major masterpiece. 7/10.

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3 from Australia:

🍿 First watch: Chubby, 22-year-old Toni Collette in the dysfunctional Australian comedy Muriel's Wedding. A strange character that is not fully flashed-out, and whose main claim to fame is her desire to have a glamorous wedding.

🍿 ...”That's just what this country needs: a cock in a frock on a rock...”

‘Filmed in Dragarama’, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Terrific Terence Stamp, drop-dead gorgeous transgender woman Guy Pearce, and 'Agent Smith’ play exaggerated caricatures of drag queen tropes, traveling to the outback in an old, pink bus. Camp & flamboyant, it didn’t connect with me until the ‘I will survive’ dance number in the night. 5/10.

🍿 First season of Mr Inbetween, about “Ray”, a Sydney underworld hitman, created by the actor playing him. On the one hand, he is a doting father to a 8-year-old daughter, a loving boyfriend and a loyal friend. On the other, he is a practical and old-blooded killer who eliminates violent thugs without a second thought. Dark, dry, often funny and poignant. 8/10.

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Ray Donovan was another tough but silent fixer, but without any charms: Had I seen the series ‘Ray Donovan’, maybe I would have found Ray Donovan: The Movie interesting. But as a stand-along crime story it was empty and dull.

Also, the same terrible actor who was awful as Young Jeff Bridges in ‘The Old Man’ last week, was awful as young Jon Voight in this one. 2/10.

🍿   Benny’s Video, the second film (and my 9th one) by Michael Haneke. A deeply disturbing film that opens with a home video of a pig slaughtered with a bolt pistol shot to the head. But not knowing anything about it beforehand, I did not expect the horrifying twist which came after a relatively “normal” day in the life of a “normal” family. Reminded me very much of the empty alienation of Camus’ ‘The Stranger’. 

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2 Korean serial killers:

🍿 Bong Joon-ho‘s Memories of Murder about a famous serial killer is considered one of the best Korean movies of all times, but in spite of a strong opening scene at the fields and closing scene at the tunnel (and then back to the fields), I just didn’t get it.

🍿 Memoir of a Murderer (2017) is an unrelated but a similar thriller. I could not find any reviews connecting the two, even though it was an obvious throwback to the original. Both tells of a prolific serial killer in the countryside, and the bumbling police search for him. It opens at the same distinct train tunnel where Bong Joon-ho‘s film ends, it has triggering girls in red dresses, etc. It's about a retired murderer with dementia, who must jot down the little he remembers, so he can understand what’s happening around him (’Momento’-like). I actually liked it much better than the original.

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The Old Man and the Sea, a paint-on-glass-animated Canadian short directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, based on Hemingway’s novel. Winner of the 2000 Best Animated Short Oscar.

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Dirty Pictures, a documentary about psychopharmacologist Alexander Shulgin who developed hundreds of psychedelic compounds including MDMA.

Obviously, I’m 100% for the use and studies of any and all types of psychedelic drugs, but films about them are usually dull and pedestrian. Including this one, that was made 4 years before 'Sasha's death. 3/10.

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(My complete movie list is here)

#movies

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CINE (Documental) Fraude (1973) Título original: F. for Fake (Vérités et mensonges) Francia Dirección: Orson Welles Idioma: Inglés con Subtítulos en Español

Atención: Solo para ver en PC o Notebook Para ver el Documental pulsa el Link: https://artecafejcp.wixsite.com/escenario-cafejcp/post/fraude-1973

Reparto: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Edith Irving, François Reichenbach

Género: Documental. Pintura

Sinopsis: Documental sobre el fraude y las falsificaciones que se centra en la figura del falsificador Elmyr de Hory y su biógrafo, Clifford Irving, autor también de la fraudulenta biografía de Howard Hughes. Asimismo relata la reclusión de Hughes y la carrera de Welles, que comenzó con la emisión radiofónica de una falsa invasión marciana: "The War of the Worlds".

Posición en rankings FA: 123 Los mejores documentales de la historia del cine

Café Mientras Tanto jcp

#documentales #cine #Fraude #cafemientrastanto #jcp

[timthemovieman]

? About Fakes

Directed by Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar & Francois Reichenbach

Photographed by Francois Reichenbach

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Drama

#the other side of the wind

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Concept:

1970s buddy comedy about mischievous philosophers JP Sartre and Al Camus. Starring Peter Falk and John Cassavetes, as the respective title characters, featuring Oja Kodar as Simone de Beauvoir.

It is shot in Brooklyn, with no pretense at all of making it seem like Paris. I am the only person who would enjoy this movie.

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The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

Look, I was salivating at the thought of seeing this as much as anyone. The idea that there was a final fully shot movie by Orson Welles, that no-one had ever seen, hanging around in film cans for over 30 years is just wonderful. And the title is wonderful too. As long as this wonderful dream remained a dream, it could be anything you wanted: you could imagine the most beautiful, mysterious, moving work of art ever. It could be - and could always remain - perfect. But judgment day has marched along and The Other Side Of The Wind has finally been exposed to the inevitable harsh light of day, to scrutiny and evisceration. And the objective results are really not all that pretty. The final product is a shoddy, sloppy, self-indulgent and unattractive 70s student film, with badly staged, badly dubbed and badly acted performances all round, everyone looking rushed and amateurish, like they grabbed 5 minutes of people's time in between shooting a proper film. Only John Huston looks like he's actually IN his role, and even then the way he is filmed diminishes any potentially powerful and memorable moments amidst all the chaos, working continually against the work as a whole. In my dream ALL the film would have looked like the film that is being shot within the film, the excerpts of which are the only moments of beauty, the only moments that actually feel like a real movie anyone would want to pay to go see. Robert Random and Welles’ girlfriend Oja Kodar both look very beautiful and otherworldly. As someone in the film says, the magic picture box loves them. I'm very thankful for all the work that went into completing this thing, it has been an amazing and unprecedented and inspirational phenomenon, seeing so many people from all walks of life doing what they could to to make it a reality. But the sad fact is that Orson Welles only ever directed one truly great film, and this is most decidedly not it.

★★★★½✰✰✰✰✰

#film reviews #the other side of the wind #orson welles #repost

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The Other Side of the Wind (1975, completed 2018)

by Orson Welles

#1970s movies #lost movies #peter bogdanovich #John Huston #susan strasberg #Oja Kodar #film within a film #mockumentary #satire

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Left to right: Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Gary Graver, and others on the set of ‘The Other Side of the Wind'. Early 1970s

#BW #Black and White #Preto e Branco #Noir et Blanc #黒と白 #Schwarzweiß #retro #vintage #Orson Welles #Peter Bogdanovich #Oja Kodar #Gary Graver #The Other Side of the Wind #1970s #70s #portrait #retrato #Celebs #celebridade #ポートレート #肖像 #Porträt #Berühmtheit #有名人 #名士 #célébrité #cinema #movies #Hollywood #movie stills

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F for Fake

directed by Orson Welles, 1973

#F for Fake #Orson Welles #François Reichenbach #Gary Graver #Oja Kodar #movie mosaics

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film still from "The Other Side of the Wind" (1970)

#The other side of the wind #orson welles #film #bob random #actor #oja kodar #actress #1970

[ruleof3bobby]

F FOR FAKE (1973) Grade: B

Found it to be a creative, interesting doc. The editing especially is great. Not many doc's 2 compare it, Orson Welles was always ahead of his time.

#F for Fake #1973 #B #Documentary Films #Fake #Fraud #Paint #Painter #Fakery #Orson Welles #Oja Kodar #Clifford Irving #Elmyr de Hory #Laurence Harvey #Howard Hughes #Watch This #Art #Artist

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F for Fake (1973)

“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.”

Directors: Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, and Francois Reichenbach

Cinematographer: Francois Reichenbach

#F for Fake #Orson Welles #Gary Graver #Oja Kodar #François Reichenbach #telelizion

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F. For Fake, dir. Orson Welles, 1973

#f for fake #orson welles #oja kodar #picasso