ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): Simone Signoret

Showing posts with label Simone Signoret. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Simone Signoret. Show all posts

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Watching

ADUA AND HER FRIENDS
[ADUA E LE COMPAGNE]
Antonio Pietrangeli
Italy, 1960

Friday, January 10, 2025

Watching

ARMY OF SHADOWS

Jean-Pierre Melville

France, 1969

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Currently Watching

POLICE PYTHON 357
Alain Corneau
France, 1976

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Currently Watching

THE BURNED BARNS
[Les granges brûlées]
Jean Chapot
France, 1973

Friday, December 31, 2021

DIABOLIQUE

Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 1954

Thursday, December 30, 2021

THE CONFESSION
Costa-Gavras
France, 1970

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

LE FOND DE L'AIR EST ROUGE

English title: A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT

Literal: THE BACKGROUND OF THE AIR IS RED

Chris Marker
France, 1977

Monday, December 27, 2021

THE WIDOW COUDERC

Pierre Granier-Deferre

France, 1971

Sunday, December 26, 2021

MADAME ROSA

Moshe Mizrahi

France, 1977

JAMES BALDWIN
"A lady like landscapes (for Simone Signoret)"

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A lady like landscapes,

wearing time like an amusing shawl

thrown over her shoulders

by a friend at the bazaar:

Every once in a while she turns in it

just like a little girl,

this way and that way:

Regarde.

Ça n'était pas donne bien sûr

mais c'est quand même beau, non?

Oui, Oui.

Et toi aussi.

Ou plutôt belle

since you are a lady.

It is impossible to tell

how beautiful, how real, unanswerable,

becomes your landscape as you move in it,

how beautiful the shawl.

Saturday, December 25, 2021

ARMY OF SHADOWS

Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1969

Friday, December 24, 2021

SHIP OF FOOLS

Stanley Kramer
USA, 1965

Thursday, December 23, 2021

CASQUE D'OR

Jacques Becker

France, 1952

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

LA RONDE

Max Ophuls
France, 1950

Friday, December 17, 2021

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

THE SEA GULL

Sidney Lumet
UK/USA, 1968

Friday, September 27, 2019

ADUA E LE COMPAGNE
(English: ADUA AND HER FRIENDS)

Antonio Pietrangeli
Italy, 1960

Sunday, September 8, 2019

LA RONDE
Max Ophuls
France, 1950

Friday, September 6, 2019

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.