torino #3

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I had to run off yesterday, before i could finish the opening night of celluloid - The audience was energized at the end of the film, this always happens with those who make it through, the q n a was raucous, several languages running around, and my interperter marina working the whole night. I did get compared to Abel ferarra, dangerous games by manuella martina the chief programmer for the festival - after i was out for a smoke and a beer, and the realization that this was the high water mark so far.

after there was a party at on the banks of the river po- there was live music - the first band was young and very good, and i even got comped free drink tickets. I talked to a ton of people including the director of the festival nanni moretti - whose getting hammered in the italian press over his directorship - my ten minutes of italian is really working, but i really had to take a piss, so i slipped away and inbetween two parked cars, i pissed into the river po, it does not get any better.

lunedi
the film maker lunch sponsored by the italian film, lasciate perdere johnny was held in the largest 15th century private palace in torino - it was smoking - but of course no smoking allowed. but there were several young women who looked like they stepped out of a sixteenth century northern italian painting - the food was piemontese carne, carne, meat.I was hurting from the night before, but i was not alone in that way, the italians could barely open their eyes.. Fabio my brother in law from rome, came in at 4, right away off to the movies, la primma, delitto della strada, crime in the street, the first film john casavettes made as an actor, helmed by the always terse, don siegel. i had never seen it, but it was fantastic, a really young sal mineo. the print was from the british film institute, casavettes plays an emotionally stunted 18 yr old juvenile delinquen in brooklyn. he lives in a slum apartment with his single mom and baby brother. This film has one of the greatest kisses in screen history. a woman, sal mineos sister, reminds him that they had kissed when they were both kids, he does not remember and she proceeds to tell him how much that kiss meant to her, and that only he could saved if he went back to that kiss, he refuses but she keeps coming, it is a great fucking movie.
dinner search - w fabio, a cab driver told him about the restaurant 3 gallini three little roosters - we found it after an hours search, it was almost secretive. we entered no one was inside, we ordered, meat, meat and more meat. about 8 thirty people started coming in, we finished and off to the movies again. Lo statto delle cose, the state of things, wender angry response to five years in hollywood, probably the greatest film he ever made. it has sam fuller playing the dp, shot on the coast in portugal, lisbon, and el lay, all in black and white. i havenàt seen it since it was released, great film.
more tomorrow

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