Storia del teatro

Rick Trader Witcombe
Secker & Warburg

Overzicht van het werk van de belangrijkste Italiaanse filmregisseurs in de jaren zeventig.

Mario Galeotti
Edizioni Falsopiano

Joshua Sinclair
Editrice Morcelliana

Il film scritto e diretto da Joshua Sinclair racconta l'itinerario culturale e umano di Edith Stein, la grande intellettuale assassinata ad Auschwitz dai nazisti e canonizzata da Giovanni Paolo II nel 1998. Nelle pagine della sceneggiatura, accompagnate dalle fotografie di Vittorio Storaro, emergono la spiritualità, l'umanità e il travaglio interiore della protagonista, il "passaggio" al cattolicesimo e la consapevolezza di appartenere al popolo ebraico e a quello cristiano. L'introduzione di Francesco Alfieri documenta l'accuratezza filologica del testo di Sinclair e la sua coerenza con i principi alla base del pensiero filosofico e pedagogico di Edith Stein: la centralità della persona e la ricerca della verità nella apertura alla relazione e alla alterità. «Dalla oscurità alla luce, dal nero... al bianco, donando una tonalità cromatica a ognuno dei momenti della vita di Edith Stein. Rosso/Arancio/Giallo/Verde/Azzurro/Indaco/Violetto... dal corpo allo spirito» (Vittorio Storaro). Prefazione di Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann.

Aldo Bernardini, VBittorio Martinelli
Coliseum Editore

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Movies are unquestionably one of the cutting-edge media in 20th-century artistic production, a discipline that has contributed more than any other to fashioning the visual culture of our contemporaries and of the artists of our day and age. The Center Pompidou continues its policy of publicizing trail-blazing references to cinematographic culture by presenting the exhibition Hitchcock and Art which first went on show in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and whose Paris debut is marked by an adaptation and some significant additions, primarily by the arrival of works from the collections held in the Musee' National d'Art Moderne. Keeping faith with the Centre's multidisciplinary vocation of exploring and valorizing relationships between the different fields of modern and contemporary artistic creation, the exhibition aims at establishing a dialogue and revealing correlations between a leading, complex and universally known opus of cinematography work on the one hand and artistic movements on the other, from Romanticism to Surrealism, as well as architecture or graphic design, which left such a profound mark as they nourished Alfred Hitchcock's imagery and aesthetic. Hitchcock and Art provides the Centre with a chance to offer the public not only the exhibition, but also Hitchcock's complete repertoire of films.

Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Stanley Kubrick
Faber & Faber

Ten short films, each based on a broken commandment, set in and around an apartment block in Warsaw. The stories are simple, describing experiences and emotions common to us all - the fractured quality of modern family life, its sadnesses and hopes. These brilliant films explore the significance of the choices we all make, every day of our lives. This edition includes an introduction by Kieslowski about his work, together with the feature-length scripts for A Short Film about Killing and A Short Film about Love.

Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie
Rutgers University Press

Rashomon is one of the greatest of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's films, the winner of the 1951 Venice Festival prize and the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1952. It features Toshiru Mifune, the best-known Japanese actor in the West, as the bandit, and accused rapist and murderer. At the beginning of the film, a woodcutter, priest, and commoner happen to meet at the ruined gate--Rashomon--outside the city of Kyoto. This tale of rape and murder is first seen through the eyes of the woodcutter and priest, both of whom have been touched by the events. The cynical, detached commoner, "everyman," listens to and comments upon their stories. The central section of the film, a series of flashbacks and tales within tales, consists of the same events retold by the husband (speaking through a medium, from the grave), the wife, the bandit, and the woodcutter. Each tells what happened--or possibly, what should have happened. The film deals with multiple truths; Richie summarized the director's point of view in the introduction: "the world is illusion, you yourself make reality, but this reality undoes you if you submit to being limited by what you have made." The sixth title in the Rutgers Films in Print Series and the first Japanese film, this volume brings together for the first time the full continuity script of Rashomon; an introductory essay by Donald Richie; the Akutagawa stories upon which the film is based; critical review and commentaries of the film; a filmography; and a bibliography. Donald Richie is the author of the definitive books in English on Kurosawa and Ozu. In addition, he is coauthor of the standard English-language history of the Japanese film and author or editor of several other books on the subject. He has also served as film critic for the Japan Times and as curator of film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Luchino Visconti
Bianco e Nero Editore

Jurij M. Lotman
Mimesis Edizioni

L'opera filmica, in quanto opera artistica, richiede che ci si discosti dal "cronotopo quotidiano", in favore del "cronotopo letterario", stabilendo un nuovo ordine di concatenazione e un nuovo sistema di rapporti, per conferire alla passiva e statica realtà una drammatica e dinamica efficacia capace di esprimere una particolare concezione del mondo. Lotman, nella sua descrizione del testo cinematografico, fa frequentemente uso del termine musicale "polifonia" e dell'aggettivo "polifonico", impiegato anche da Bachtin, in riferimento alla scrittura letteraria e in particolare al "romanzo polifonico" di Dostoevskij. "Polifonia" è anche un concetto centrale nella ricerca teorica e creativa di Ejzenstejn. Polifonia drammaturgica, separazione e rottura dei nessi passivi e realistici, congiungimento di cose solitamente separate e distinte: tutto questo è collegato con ciò che Ejzenstejn chiama Ex-stasis, per indicare, nel film, un modello dinamico e temporale di passaggi e commutazioni da un registro espressivo a un altro (dall'immagine alla musica al colore).

Paolo Bertetto, Cristina Monti
Edizioni Lindau

Robert Altman
Bompiani

Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Electa

On Cinderella, the fable, the shoe by Ferragamo and other designs and stills for the film Ever After, and on the relationship between cinema and fashion.