Thursday, January 16, 2025

Volti




Contemplate a remake of Rossellini’s Roma citta aperta (1945) just as fireworks mark the beginning of 2025. Naturally there are no caravans of Gestapo. Can you spot your Anna Magnani in the still winding narrow streets, the arteries filtering into the Piazza Navona and the Campo dei Fiori where the roar of Fellini's motorcycles from Roma (1972) has never left the air. The worlds out of which La dolce vita (1960) La Strada (1954) and the haunting Alberto Sordi vehicle Una vita difficile  (1961) are long gone, but their powerful iconography creates a scrim over the present. Have you ever encountered someone you knew when you were growing up? At first you don’t recognize them but then the original face emerges from the flesh and for the moment you have them back.


listen to Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl" (1995)

read "An Incident of Defenestration" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

listen to James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing "It's a Man's World"

and listen to "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Wants to Dance)" by Tina Charles (1975)

and listen to "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne with Belinda Carlisle

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