The Outcry (1957)

Les quatre cent coups (1959)Tirez Sur le Pianiste 1960), Jules et Jim (1962) seem like yesterday as does the famous first line of L'etranger and Before the Revolution (1964) (with its less famous depiction of social class in the seating of the Parma opera house) The Conformist (1970), Last Tango (1972), which Pauline Kael compared favorably to Le Sacre de Printemps and lesser known classics like Antonioni's Il Grido, The Outcry (1957) which takes place in the Po Valley Bellocchio's Devil in the Flesh (1986) which starred the Dutch actress Marushka Detmar's whose "natural" style both of acting and body hair were originally displayed in Godard's First Name: Carmen (1983).The famous Bergman trilogy about the absence of God Through a Glass Darkly (1961),Winter Light (1963) and The Silence (1963) are yesterday as is Superfly (1972) recently revived at Film Forum, with the signature Curtis Mayfield sound track. Don't forget the Una Vita Difficile (1961) whose title is that of a novel its leading character, the tragic-comic figure played by Italy's Chaplin, Alberto Sordi, writes. Sordi also memorably starred in Lattuada's Mafioso (1962). These all also are yesterday for alumni of The New Yorker and The Thalia along with those currently enrolled at Film Forum. Remember "Death Knocks,"Woody Allen's New Yorker parody of The Seventh Seal (1957)?

read "Removing Your Unconscious" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and listen to "Bird on the Wire" by Leonard Cohen