“
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
Fran Lebowitz
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ONIBABA (1964) JAPAN
Directed by Kaneto Shindo
Does necessary evil exist? If so is survival it’s justification? Is sex the foundation of human connection and the root to survival? Shindo, who this year is going to be 100 years old and who is still making movies, gives his own answers in this masterpiece film. The story, borrowed from a Buddhist tale, is set in a world
“where frost falls in summer, and a horse is said to have given birth to a calf, a black sun rises, refusing to illuminate those mysteries best left unknown.” Onibaba: Black Sun Rising by Chuck Stephens
“The word is not a single and separate entity — it’s part of other words… Words belong to each other.”
The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice.
(ᔥ Iris Blasi)
