Salomé according to Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde wrote Salomé in 1891, in French, during his Parisian sojourn.
They say that one evening, after conversing on the representations of Salomé throughout history, he returned to his hotel to notice a blank copybook lying on the desk, and it occurred to him to write down what he had been saying. He wrote a new play, Salomé, then, rapidly and in French.
A tragedy, it tells the story of Salomé, the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, as we know from the holy Gospel, requested the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils, making her stepfather’s disappointment but mother’s delight.
We can say that Wilde did a quiet “sensual” elaboration of the Gospel, because the original story was that Herodias, Salomé’s mother, asked her the head of the prophet to revenge of what he publicly said against her and her behaviour (Wilde imagined Salomé fascinated by the look, the air, the mouth of the prophet and willing his head to kiss him). Moreover, the Love – Death relationship is an important reading key of the Victorian literature, of what the Irish novelist and poet was an important exponent.
When Wilde returned to London, just before Christmas, the Paris Echo, a newspaper, referred to him as “the great event” of the season. Rehearsals of the play, including Sarah Bernhardt, began but the play was refused a license by the Lord Chamberlain, since it depicted biblical characters. Salomé was published jointly in Paris and London in 1893, but was not performed until 1896 in Paris, during Wilde’s later incarceration, and was translated into English by an Oscar’s friend.
The characters of this tragedy are Herod Antipas (Tetrarch of Judea), Iokanaan (the Baptist, also known indeed for baptizing Jesus Christ), a young Syrian (captain of the soldiers), Tigellinus (a young Roman), a Cappadocian, a Nubian, a Nubian slave, the executioner, the two soldiers, Herodias (Tetrarch’s wife), Salomé (daughter of Herod) and her slaves.
mille e ancora mille!
Quest’oggi, 10 maggio 2013,
il Pasquale Curatola’s Blog ha raggiunto la quota di mille articoli pubblicati!
Nel ringraziare quanti hanno letto e apprezzato le sue fatiche ed il proficuo lavoro delle sue manine sante,
il blogger consiglia la rilettura integrale di tutto il sito,
dal 17 maggio 2006 ai giorni nostri.
Grazie!
Mockridge from Murdoch to Virgin Media
Tom Mockridge, 57 years old, from New Zealand, has been working twenty years as an important manager of News Corp., boss of Sky Italia and, since July 2011, leader of News international after the scandal of phone tapping (tabloid gate) that caused ‘News of the World’ be closed.
Now he is a competitor of Murdock, as he became the CEO of Virgin Media, British company acquired by Liberty Global, another giant in the field of international communication.
the simpsons and the language
Oxford University Press (Oxford Dictionaries), in remembering April 19 as the anniversary of the first airing of The Simpsons on American television (the first episode appeared in 1989), does some linguistics considerations on their contribution to the common speech. Three quotations are on The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations:
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‘D’oh’ , Homer’s main expression, which is in the official on line version of the Oxford English Dictionary (the earliest citation for doh dates from a 1945 BBC radio script for the show ‘It’s That Man Again’ and Its inclusion in The Simpsons seems to be due to voice actor Dan Castellaneta).
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‘¡Ay caramba, don’t have a cow!’ (by Bart, although it had already been used in 1980s film ‘Sixteen Candles or Scooby Doo’; used as an expression of surprise and seemingly originates from the nickname given to the 18th–century Spanish singer Maria Antonia Fernandez)(in Italy Bart says ‘Ciucciati il calzino’ and Bender, another Matt Groening’s creation, “mmm…shorts”);
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‘Me fail English? That’s “unpossible”!’ (by the dopey policeman’s son Ralph Wiggum; it is interesting to note that “umpossible” remount s to 1362 and it was a commonly used word between c.1400–1660) (in Italy Winchester speaks in Neapolitan dialect);
Definitely, Simpson family made their precise mark on the English language.
Topo Gigio goes to Hollywood
Topo Gigio seems almost forgotten in Italy, in spite of a glorious past, which began with “mago Zurlí” and continued through participation in the Zecchino d’oro, the cartoon series, the Carosello. He even did a few dance steps with Alessia Marcuzzi at the Big Brother and is quoted in my Peyo Code… It now seems to want to revive in a big way, with an expedition in the United States, specifically in Hollywood, the Mecca of cinema.
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Topo Gigio sembra quasi dimenticato in Italia, a dispetto di un passato glorioso, cominciato con il Mago Zurlí e proseguito attraverso la partecipazione allo Zecchino d’oro, alle serie di cartoni animati, al Carosello. Ha perfino fatto qualche passo di danza con Alessia Marcuzzi al Grande fratello ed è citato nel mio Codice Peyo. Sembra adesso volersi rilanciare in grande stile, con una spedizione negli Stati uniti, per la precisione a Hollywood, la Mecca del cinema.
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Argo, Sardinia and the Springy…
Iran has launched legal action against ‘Argo’, the beautiful Ben Affleck’s film that tells the escape of six American hostages from the embassy of the United States in Tehran in 1979 and who won the 2013 Oscar for Best Picture.The heirs of the Persians, as the French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre told Le Figaro, do not want the film to be banned, but the addition of the disclaimer, however frequent, “the facts stated in the film are not really happened” .It would be, according to them, a sort of due clarification. |
L’Iran ha avviato un’azione legale contro ‘Argo’, la bella pellicola di Ben Affleck che racconta la fuga di sei ostaggi americani dall’ambasciata degli Stati uniti a Teheran nel 1979 e che ha trionfato agli Oscar 2013 come Miglior film.Gli eredi dei persiani, secondo quanto ha dichiarato a Le Figaro l’avvocato francese Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, non vogliono che la pellicola sia vietata ma che sia aggiunta la dicitura, peraltro frequente, “i fatti riportati nel film non sono realmente accaduti”.Sarebbe, secondo loro, una sorta di dovuta precisazione. |
Maybe the first time in history that a film entirely shot in Sardinian dialect arrives in theaters throughout Italy.Will be ‘Su Re‘ (The King), by John Columbu (born in Nuoro, Sardinia), a transposition of the Gospel narration of the Passion of Christ shot in the mountains of Nuoro, whose release was scheduled on March 28, Holy Thursday.It will be , in the intentions of the teacher, “a Franciscan film in the wake of the new season announced by Pope Francesco, sobriety, spirituality profound poverty”.
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Sarà forse la prima volta nella storia che un film girato interamente in sardo arriva nelle sale di tutta Italia.Sarà ‘Su Re’, del nuorese Giovanni Columbu, trasposizione del racconto evangelico della Passione di Cristo girata sulle montagne di Nuoro*, il cui arrivo è stato programmato il 28 marzo, Giovedí santo.Si tratterà, nelle intenzioni del maestro, di “un film francescano nel solco della nuova stagione annunciata da papa Francesco, sobrietà, spiritualità profonda, povertà”.*pron. Nùoro, non Nuòro |
Adriano Celentano has posted in his website the petition ‘Let’s save the places of the Boy via Gluck’, promoted by the association of Martesiana Friends and by Legambiente Circles in Milan, directed to the Minister of the Cultural Heritage with the evident desire to include the famous and by now legendary Gluck Street of the well-known song among the cultural and landscape assets to save.It should be remembered that ”The Springy” lived there his childhood with his family and that Gluck was, however, not a mediocre Austrian composer. |
Adriano Celentano ha postato sul suo sito la petizione ‘Salviamo i luoghi del Ragazzo della Via Gluck’, promossa dall’Associazione Amici della Martesiana e dai Circoli Legambiente di Milano e indirizzata al ministro dei Beni culturali con l’evidente anelito di inserire la famosa e ormai leggendaria via Gluck della nota canzone tra i beni culturali e paesaggistici da tutelare.È opportuno ricordare che il Molleggiato ha vissuto colà la sua infanzia, assieme alla famiglia e che Gluck era, peraltro, un non mediocre compositore austriaco. |
star trek: into the darkness
It will be called ‘Into Darkness: Star Trek’ and will be the twelfth episode of the great epic became a cult for a generation (it is said that, after the first suspension of the program, the viewers sent a million letters protest to CBS).Dr. Spock, the fido Sulu and the other members of the Enterprise crew are going to return to the big screen, and then the producer Bryan Burk, who presented the first twenty-eight minutes of the film at the UCI Cinema Pioltello *, assured:” We have not taken for granted the success of the first film.With this new episode we wanted to go even further than that.Most action, more drama, more special effects.”* (Ah, be born in Pioltello!)
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S’intitolerà ‘Into Darkness: Star Trek’ e sarà il dodicesimo episodio di quella grande epopea diventata un cult per un’intera generazione (si racconta che, dopo la prima sospensione del programma, i telespettatori abbiano mandato un milione di lettere di protesta alla CBS).Il dottor Spok, il fido Sulu e gli altri membri dell’equipaggio dell’Enterprise stanno per tornare sul grande schermo, dunque ed il produttore Bryan Burk, che ha presentato i primi ventotto minuti del film alla UCI Cinema di Pioltello*, ha assicurato:”Non abbiamo dato per scontato il successo del primo film. Con questo nuovo episodio volevamo spingerci ancora piú in là. Maggior azione, maggior drama, maggiori effetti speciali.”* (ah, nascere a Pioltello!)
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pope Francesco
| Pope Francesco (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio ) was proclaimed today (as foreseen by my seventh sense) and, after an hour of waiting, presented himself to the world as the new bishop of Rome, almost forgetting, perhaps for the tiredness, the rest of the flock which has been assigned to him in the other parts of the planet.
His appointment is among the shrewdest ones: South American, to oversee a continent where Catholicism, though well present, must confront against santería and some alternative religions, and far Piedmontese origins, just to offend not the house owners. For the name, it is the first time in the history that “Francesco” is used (just a quick control to the encyclopaedia…); that is why the ordinal number, in this case “I”, can be omitted. When he was only the archibishop of Buenos Aires, he declared that the wedding between people of the same sex could damage the family. |
Papa Francesco (al secolo Jorge Mario Bergoglio) è stato eletto oggi,
come il mio settimo senso si aspettava e, dopo un’ora di preparativi, si è presentato al mondo come nuovo vescovo di Roma, quasi dimenticando, forse per stanchezza, il resto del gregge che gli è stato affidato nelle altre parti del pianeta. La sua nomina è tra le piú avvedute: sudamericano, per presidiare un continente dove il cattolicesimo, pur ben rappresentato, deve confrontarsi con la santería e alcune religioni alternative, e di lontane origini piemontesi, per non offendere i padroni di casa. Quanto al nome, è la prima volta nella storia che è usato quello di “Francesco” (è bastata una veloce consultazione all’enciclopedia di casa); è per questo che l’eventuale numero ordinale, in questo caso “I”, può essere taciuto. Quando era soltanto l’arcivescovo di Buenos Aires, ha dichiarato che il matrimonio tra persone dello stesso sesso potrebbe danneggiare la famiglia. |
Cannes de Spielberg
Next Cannes Film Festival will be held since May 15 to May 26 and Steven Spielberg will be the President of the jury;
he has commented:
“”My first memory of Cannes dates back almost 31 years ago with the debut of ET, and is still one of the most intense of my career. For over 60 years, Cannes has been the launching pad to make known to the whole world of extraordinary films. For me it ‘s a great honor and a privilege preside over the jury of a festival that never ceases to witness unequivocally that Cinema is the language of the world”
In Cannes, Steven Spielberg won the award for best screenplay ‘Sugarland Express’ (1974), presented out of competition ‘The Color Purple’ (1986) and projected the world premiere of ’ET’ (1982).
Last year that role was assigned to the Italian director Nanni Moretti.
à propos des Misérables
Il film Les Misèrables è stato poco valorizzato agli Oscar perché è un musical (in tutta sincerità, a me è piaciuto e, a parte la strepitosa Anne Hathaway, ho apprezzato anche Hugh Jackman nei panni e nelle corde vocali di Jean Valjean).È pur vero, e non era possibile dirlo prima per non influenzare la giuria, che, quando sono andato a vederlo al cinema, mi è venuta una sensazione di déjà écouté in un paio di scene.La musica, come noto, è quella del musical ma un paio di musiche mi sembrava d’averle sentite anche prima:
Parla bene, probabilmente, chi ci ricorda che le note sono soltanto sette e qualche coincidenza è sempre possibile! Congratulazioni, comunque, per le statuette portate a casa da Anne Hathaway come Miglior attrice non protagonista, Lisa Westcott e Julie Dartnell per trucco e parrucco, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes per il missaggio!
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The film Les Misérables has been few appreciated at the Oscars because it is a musical (honestly, I liked it and, a part the wonderful Anne Hathaway, I also liked Hugh Jackman in the role and in the vocal chords of Jean Valjean).Also true, and it was not possible to tell before not to influence the jury, that, when I went to watch the film at the cinema, a sort of déjà écouté came to me in a couple of scenes.As known, musical themes are those ones of the musical, but my impression was to have already heard something before:
• that one in the tavern, when clients and owners introduce their environment and their “life style”; • that one which serves as the background of one the final monologues. Who remembers us that the notes are only seven is probably right: some coincidence always is possible! Congratulations, anyway, for the Oscars won by Anne Hathaway as the best actress in a supporting role, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell for makeup and hairstyling, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes for the Sound mixing |
Oscars 2013: the winners
BEST PICTURE Argo (Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney Producers)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Daniel Day – Lewis (Lincoln)
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Brave (Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman)
CINEMATOGRAPHY Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
COSTUME DESIGN Anna Karenina (Jacqueline Durran)
DIRECTING Life of Pi Ang Lee
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn)
FILM EDITING Argo (William Goldenberg)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Amour (Austria)
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLINg Les Misérables (Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell)
MUSIC ORIGINAL SCORE Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)
MUSIC ORIGINAL SONG ”Skyfall” from Skyfall (Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth)
PRODUCTION DESIGN Lincoln :Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration)
SHORT FILM ANIMATED Paperman (John Kahrs)
SHORT FILM LIVE ACTION Curfew (Shawn Christensen)
SOUND EDITING Skyfall (Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers)
SOUND MIXING Les Misérables (Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes)
VISUAL EFFECTS Life of Pi (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott)
WRITING Argo
WRITING RIGINAL SCREENPLAY Django Unchained (written by Quentin Tarantino)
berlinale 2013: silver and golden bears
Wong Kar Wai (President), Susanne Bier, Tim Robbins, Shirin Neshat, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Andreas Dresen und Ellen Kuras, as the members of the Berlinale 2013 International Jury decided the following prizes:
- GOLDEN BEAR for the Best Film: Călin Peter Netzer and the producer Ada Solomon for Poziţia Copilului (Child’s Pose) by Călin Peter Netzer
- JURY GRAND PRIX (Silver Bear): Epizoda u životu berača željeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker) by Danis Tanović
- ALFRED BAUER PRIZE (Silver Bear)awarded in memory of the Festival Founder – for a feature film that opens new perspectives: Vic+Flo ont vu un ours (Vic+Flo Saw a Bear)von Denis Côté
- AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR (Silver Bear): David Gordon Green for Prince Avalanche
- AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS (Silver Bear): Paulina García in Gloria by Sebastián Lelio
- AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR (Silver Bear): Nazif Mujić in Epizoda u životu berača željeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker) by Danis Tanović
- AWARD FOR BEST SCRIPT (Silver Bear): Jafar Panahi for Pardé (Closed Curtain) by Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi (Kamboziya Partovi accepted the prize on behalf of Jafar Panahi).
- AWARD FOR AN OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION IN THE CATEGORIES CAMERA, EDITING, MUSIC SCORE, COSTUME DESIGN or SET DESIGN (Silver Bear): Aziz Zhambakiyev for the camera in Uroki Garmonii (Harmony Lessons) by Emir Baigazin
- SPECIAL MENTIONS: Promised Land by Gus Van Sant Layla Fourie by Pia Marais
papa Benedetto XVI lascia il pontificato
Il papa Benedetto XVI, al secolo Joseph Ratzinger, ha annunciato che lascerà il trono di Pietro il prossimo 28 febbraio. Lo ha detto durante il concistoro per la canonizzazione dei martiri di Otranto.da un’Ansa delle 11.46 |
Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger, announced he will leave the throne of Peter next February 28. He said during the consistory for the canonization of the martyrs of Otranto.Source: Ansa, 11.46 am |
rileggi umorismo vaticano
nonché Habemus papam
per non parlare di Che humour! (2)
Lincoln
‘Lincoln’ è un film tecnicamente perfetto: scritto bene, realizzato bene, interpretato bene.Dimostra attenzione ai dettagli, alle ricostruzioni, al lessico, alle atmosfere, a quei particolari apparentemente secondari che si possono intravedere solo prestando la dovuta attenzione ai gesti che chi recita fa davanti al magico specchio della cinepresa.È rigoroso come un documentario, per Giove! Come ai tempi di ‘Schindler’s List‘, il grande Spielberg si è dimostrato maestro nel fondere arte e precisione.La figura di Abraham Lincoln, fatta magnificamente rivivere da Daniel Day Lewis, d’altra parte, giganteggia nella storia universale e in quella americana per dei meriti che mai potranno essere cancellati e ai quali il cinema di Spielberg ha riconosciuto giusto tributo. |
‘Lincoln’ is a technically perfect film: well written, well done and well performed.It demonstrates attention to the details, to the reconstructions, to the lexicon, to the atmospheres, to those apparently secondary particulars which you can observe only finding the right attention to the gestures made by the players in front of the magic mirror of a cine camera.It is rigorous as a documentary, by Jove! As at the times of ‘Schindler’s List‘, the big Spielberg has confirmed to be a Master in mixing the art with the precision.The figure of Abraham Lincoln, made magnificently re-live by Daniel Day Lewis, looms up, on the other hand, in the universal and in the American history for some merits that never will be deleted and that Spielberg’s cinema has correctly awarded.
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Golden Globe: the winners are…
Drama: Argo
Comedy or musical: Les Misérables
Director: Ben Affleck, Argo
Actor, comedy or musical: Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Actress, comedy or musical: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Actor, drama: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Actress, drama: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Supporting actor: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained; Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Original score: Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
Best Original Song: Adele, Skyfall (Skyfall)
Animated feature film: Brave
Foreign film: Amour
Television: Game Change, HBO (continua…)
Oscars 2013: the nominations
No Italians but Dario Marianelli, for the music of Anna Karenina.
Best picture
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Best director
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Best actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible (continua…)
Hark! The Pasqual’s Angels sing!
HARK! THE PASQUAL’S ANGELS SING!
(based on Hark! The herald Angels sing!, by Charles Wesley)
Hark! The Pasqual’s angels sing
“Pasqual now is your new king!”
Shows and news and mercy mild,
also ‘Sinners’, just for SKY!
Nice background and good tidings,
how many are his skills?
What a truth in this proclaim,
Pasqual’s in any TV claim!
Hark! The Pasqual’s angels sing
“Pasqual now is your new king!”
All the stars for him arise
saying hello to a man so nice!
For a great Fate indeed he’s come
and 2013 will have some!
Bald but sexy really is he,
hansome and fine, of errors free!
Everybody sing with me:
Pasqual is a genius isn’t he?
Hark! The Pasqual’s angels sing
“Pasqual now is (y)our new king!”
Have a Christmas, my dear friend
like it is in your best dreams!
Light and life Pasqual brings
with creativity in his wings!
Mild he lays his glory by
so that banality may die!
Follow him and your gift,
as a Phoenix, will be a rebirth!
Hark! The Pasqual’s Angels sing:
“Pasqual now is (y)our new king!”
Great Expectations
| All’astrologia non bisogna credere però noi Acquario quel ‘qualcosa in più’ce l’abbiamo di sicuro: Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pasquale Curatola sono nomi che sicuramente
risplendono nel firmamento dei geni d’ogni tempo e d’ogni Paese. È proprio di Dickens che si vuol parlare nel post di quest’oggi giacché il 2012 segna il bicentenario dalla nascita. Tale evento non poteva non essere celebrato come si conviene ed il regista Mike Newel ha ben pensato di trasporre in pellicola ‘Great Expectations’ (‘Grandi speranze’) che, insieme a ‘Little Dorrit, ‘ A Tale of two Cities’ e a qualcos’altro, figura tra i capolavori del maestro inglese ( per non citare i piú conosciuti ”David Copperfield’ e ‘Oliver Twist’). ‘Grandi speranze’ è la storia vera di Pip, un bambino nato in una situazione ostile che riesce a diventare un adulto colto. Suoi angeli custodi sono un ex galeotto, e una fanciulla di nome Estella, che diventa una donna dell’alta società. Attualmente nelle sale americane, in arrivo in quelle italiane il 6 dicembre, il kolossal vanta un cast di prim’ordine: Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeremy Irvine, Hollyday Grainger.
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Astrology is not to be trusted but we of Aquarius must really have some special ‘plus’ with us: Galileo, Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pasquale Curatola are names which surely shine in the firmament of the geniuses of any time and any country. In today’s post our will is just to speak of Charles Dickens because 2012 is the bicentenary since his born. Such an important event was not to be celebrated differently from it deserves and director Mike Newell has been right in making a film of ‘Great Expectations’, which, together with ‘Little Dorrit’, ‘A Tale of two cities’ and something else, is among the masterpieces of the British master (not to mention the most well-known, ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Oliver Twist’). ‘Great Expectations’ is the true story of Pip, a child born in an uneasy situation who manages to become an educated adult. His guardian angels are an ex-convict and a girl named Estella, who will become a lady of the high society. Currently in the American cinemas, to arrive in the Italian ones on December the 6th, this colossal has a highest order cast: Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeremy Irvine, Hollyday Grainger.
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how rich is English?
English is considered as the language with the biggest number of words.It is not an easy valuation, as told by the same linguists who did it, also considering that, in Virginia Woolf’s language, verbs are not to be conjugate and Finnish has 16 cases of declination. Anyway, everything started many years ago, within an English class.The teacher:- My students, what’s the language in the word with the biggest number of words?Any possible answer went down.The teacher:- My students! What else but that one you are studying here? English!- WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? You are making fun of us! In English you do everything thanks to make, get, like and something! somemone said.- You know, English commonly spoken can seem poor of words but the complete vocabulary, also considering the words coming from countries of the Commonwealth, is around the 1.000.000 of words! And it is a language which increases its lexis at any time!The students could not believe; being Italians, perhaps, pride of a language very rich and full of nuances and meanings. But this is the opinion of the linguists of Oxford University, those ones who take care of the Oxford English dictionaries, the most trusted ones in the world…
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L’inglese viene considerato come la lingua con il maggior numero di parole.Non è un computo facile, a detta degli stessi studiosi che lo hanno portato a termine, anche perché bisogna considerare che nella lingua di Virginia Woolf i verbi non si coniugano e che il finlandese ha sedici casi. In ogni modo, tutto cominciò molti anni fa, con un corso d’inglese.Il prof:- Studenti miei, qual è secondo voi la lingua col maggior numero di parole al mondo?Vennero giù tutte le possibili risposte.Il prof:- Studenti miei! Quale altra se non quella che state studiando qui? L’inglese!- CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE? Ti stati prendendo giuoco di noi! In inglese fate tutto con make, get, like e simili! disse qualcuno.- Sapete, l’inglese parlato comunemente può sembrare povero ma il vocabolario completo, anche in considerazione delle parole provenienti dalle Nazioni del Commonwealth,è attorno al milione di parole! Ed è una lingua che incrementa il suo lessico in ogni momento!Gli studenti non potevano crederci; come italiani, forse, orgogliosi di una lingua ricchissima e piena di significati e sfumature. Ma è questa l’opinione dei linguisti della Oxford University, quelli che curano i dizionari Oxford English, i piú accreditati al mondo…
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an armadillo as a mascot
È stata rivelata la mascotte ufficiale dei mondiali di calcio 2014. I brasiliani devono ancora votare per il suo nome* ma è sicuramente un armadillo, animale tipico del Brasile e dell’America meridionale uso a chiudersi nella sua corazza quasi a diventare… un pallone!*La nostra proposta è di scegliere tra:
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It has been revealed the official mascot of the World Cup 2014. Brazilian people are yet to vote for its name* but it surely is an armadillo, typical animal of Brazil and South America used at withdrawing into its armour to almost become … a ball!*Our proposal is to choose between:
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Mascotte mondiali 2014 / World Champ 2014 mascot
the best 50
I saw them, meeting, in August.846 critics, programmers,academics, distributors voted and defined theThe Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time. |
Si son riuniti, li ho visti, in agosto.846 tra critici, programmatori,accademici e distributorihanno votato e definito l’elencodei cinquanta migliori film di tutti i tempi. |
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English title |
Director, year |
Italian title |
votes |
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Vertigo |
Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 |
La donna che visse duevolte |
191 |
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2 |
Citizen Kane |
Orson Welles, 1941 |
Quarto potere |
157 |
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3 |
Tokyo Story |
Ozu Yasujiro, 1953 |
Viaggio a Tokyo |
107 |
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4 |
La Règle du jeu |
Jean Renoir, 1939 |
La Regola del gioco |
100 |
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5 |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
FW Murnau, 1927 |
Aurora |
93 |
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6 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Stanley Kubrick, 1968 |
2001: Odissea nello spazio |
90 |
|
7 |
The Searchers |
John Ford, 1956 |
Sentieri selvaggi |
78 |
|
8 |
Man with a Movie Camera |
Dziga Vertov, 1929 |
L’uomo con la macchina da presa |
68 |
|
9 |
The Passion of Joan of Arc |
Carl Dreyer, 1927 |
La passione di Giovanna D’Arco |
65 |
|
10 |
8½
|
Federico Fellini, 1963 |
|
64 |
|
11 |
Battleship Potëmkin, |
Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 |
La corazzata Potëmkin |
63 |
|
12 |
L’Atalante |
Jean Vigo, 1934 |
|
58 |
|
13 |
Breathless |
Jean-Luc Godard, 1960 |
Fino all’ultimo respiro |
57 |
|
14 |
Apocalypse Now |
Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 |
|
53 |
|
15 |
Late Spring |
Ozu Yasujiro, 1949 |
Tarda primavera |
50 |
|
16 |
Au hasard Balthazar, |
Robert Bresson, 1966 |
|
49 |
|
17 |
Seven Samurai |
Kurosawa Akira, 1954 |
I sette samurai |
48 |
|
17 |
Persona |
Ingmar Bergman, 1966 |
|
48 |
|
19 |
Mirror |
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974 |
Lo Specchio |
47 |
|
19 |
Singin’ in the Rain |
Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1951 |
Cantando sotto la pioggia |
46 |
|
21 |
L’avventura |
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 |
|
43 |
|
21 |
Le Mépris |
Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 |
Il Disprezzo |
43 |
|
21 |
The Godfather |
Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 |
Il Padrino |
43 |
|
24 |
Ordet |
Carl Dreyer, 1955 |
|
42 |
|
23 |
In the Mood for Love |
Wong Kar-Wai, 2000 |
|
42 |
|
26 |
Rashomon, |
Kurosawa Akira, 1950 |
|
41 |
|
26 |
Andrei Rublev |
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966 |
|
41 |
|
29 |
Stalker |
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 |
|
39 |
|
28 |
Mulholland Drive |
David Lynch, 2001 |
|
40 |
|
29 |
Shoah |
Claude Lanzmann, 1985 |
|
39 |
|
31 |
The Godfather Part II |
Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 |
Il Padrino – parte II |
38 |
|
32 |
Taxi Driver |
Martin Scorsese, 1976 |
|
38 |
|
33 |
Bicycle Thieves |
Vittorio De Sica, 1948 |
Ladri di biciclette |
37 |
|
34 |
The General |
Buster Keaton & ClydeBruckman, 1926 |
Il Generale – come vinsi la guerra |
35 |
|
35 |
Metropolis |
Fritz Lang, 1927 |
|
34 |
|
35 |
Psycho |
Alfred Hitchcock, 1960 |
|
34 |
|
35 |
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles |
Chantal Akerman, 1975 |
|
34 |
|
35 |
Sátántangó, |
Béla Tarr, 1994 |
|
34 |
|
39 |
The 400 Blows |
François Truffaut, 1959 |
I 400 colpi |
33 |
|
40 |
La dolce vita, |
Federico Fellini, 1960 |
|
33 |
|
41 |
Journey to Italy |
Roberto Rossellini, 1954 |
Viaggio in Italia |
32 |
|
42 |
Pather Panchali |
Satyajit Ray, 1955 |
Il lamento sul sentiero |
31 |
|
42 |
Some Like It Hot |
Billy Wilder, 1959 |
A qualcuno piace caldo |
31 |
|
42 |
Gertrud |
Carl Dreyer, 1964 |
|
31 |
|
42 |
Pierrot le fou |
Jean-Luc Godard, 1965 |
Il bandito delle 11 |
31 |
|
42 |
Play Time |
Jacques Tati, 1967 |
|
31 |
|
42 |
Close-Up |
Abbas Kiarostami, 1990 |
|
31 |
|
48 |
The Battle of Algiers |
Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966 |
La battaglia di Algeri |
30 |
|
48 |
Histoire(s) du cinéma |
Jean-Luc Godard, 1998 |
|
30 |
|
50 |
City Lights |
Charlie Chaplin, 1931 |
Luci della città |
29 |
|
50 |
Ugetsu monogatari |
Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953 |
I racconti della luna pallidad’agosto |
29 |
|
50 |
La Jetée |
Chris Marker, 1962 |
|
29 |
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