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Suma Flamenca: Jóvenes, internacionales, premiados y geniales
TERESA FERNANDEZ HERRERA. Periodista, Escritora. Directora Gral. Cultura Flamenca. Prensa Especializada
La feliz iniciativa de la Comunidad de Madrid, a instancias de su director artístico Antonio Benamargo, de esta Suma Flamenca Joven separada de la veterana Suma Flamenca, nos ha traído en esta tercera edición una pléyade de jóvenes artistas, en su mayoría con importantes premios en su haber y…
From Georges Sadoul
Paris, 14 May 1953
My dear Luis,
I don’t know if you’ve been told about the muted response your latest film, This Strange Passion, received at Cannes. I’m sure you will know that some press announcements implied you would attend the Festival to present the film to the public. I certainly thought you would be there and was expecting you, so I was enormously disappointed.
The Jury, as you know, was chaired by Jean Cocteau. He saw the film before the public. And before the screening he kept saying, in so many words: ‘I’ve witnessed a suicide. Buñuel wrote saying he cared greatly (or somewhat) for This Strange Passion. But all I can see is a regrettable, commercial film. Shocking.’ I do think, in fact, that he was expressing his sincere opinion and was not motivated by any ill-will. Just as a Bordeaux wine loses its bitterness over time, with age, Cocteau has become a model of benevolence and indulgence. In general, he has been an excellent president of the Cannes’ Jury. Except in the case of This Strange Passion.
Of course, his comments were reproduced, and a number of critics absented themselves from the Festival on the afternoon the film was screened, because the Mexican gala evening had been set aside for La red, that far-fetched, vulgar fabrication by Emilio Fernández. The absences were even more noticeable because Susana had been screened six months ago in Paris, with a lot of publicity around your name, and the critics hadn’t much appreciated a film that I, personally, enjoyed (unless I’m mistaken?) as a commercial product in that zarzuela style you worked in, pseudonymously, some years ago in Madrid. Although I certainly didn’t recognize ‘my Buñuel’, except in one or two images.
Before This Strange Passion, they screened a horrible, chauvinistic French film called Vie passionée de Clémenceau, the Ministry of War had ‘packed the house’ with a hundred or so veterans from 1914 to 1918, whose job it was to applaud, loudly, all the vengeful statements, shots of Marshall Foch, and battle scenes. This select audience stayed on to watch your film. So, it was hardly surprising that certain sequences were met with shouts and whistles, just as in the days of The Golden Age.
As for me, I barely heard the shouts and whistles. I was ‘captivated’ from the opening scenes. Transported twenty years back to our youth. Where Cocteau saw a banal commercial film, I saw extraordinary fidelity to the motifs of The Golden Age and the rage of an acerbic and destructive humour that destroys, with Arturo de Córdova, all the commercialism of Mexican cinema, attacking it with its own weapons. But what most excited me was the fact that the recuperation (often forcefully highlighted) of the motifs of The Golden Age went hand-in-hand with their critique. The abject monster of This Strange Passion seemed to me the image, the double, the brother of the hero embodied by Modot, but reviled, destroyed, torn to shreds, rather than, as in The Golden Age exalted, glorified and placed on a pedestal. Francisco the sanctimonious, perverse, feudal, the unjust tyrant, both in the bell tower scene and in the encounter with his servant, seemed to me to be turned by your vision into an unprecedented condemnation of all the new incarnations of Fantômas or of Maldoror, who tormented some of us in the days of surrealism. To use an (overly solemn) analogy, if The Golden Age was your Maldoror, I see This Strange Passion as your Poésies by Isidore Ducasse.
I said all of this (or something similar) in Cannes where, with the exception of five or six critics, This Strange Passion was condemned for a surface meaning so poorly understood it might have taken first prize at Catholic central for its ‘perfectly edifying’ denouement. And so it went on. 48 hours later, André Bazin, who initially shared the general incomprehension, published a defence of your film in the Festival bulletin, Rendez-vous de Cannes, published by Cinématographie française. Cocteau was no longer quite so insistent about his earlier opinion, although when I said: ‘It is The Golden Age’ his answer was ‘No, it’s The Monetary Age’ (with malice, this time, doubled or tripled). I am, though, convinced that if This Strange Passion is screened in Paris, it will definitely attract fans and lengthy eulogies in journals like Cahiers du cinéma.
That said, I think your film will be difficult to defend, because it will be misunderstood by mass audiences (of whatever kind) who will only see (at best) its sadism, rather than its critique of sadism. Your intentions (or at least those I attribute to you) will be understood by a hundred initiates at most, that is, by men of our generation and experience, or the subtle aesthetes of Saint Germain des Prés. And to repeat a slogan from The Golden Age, ‘poetry should be written by everyone’ (in other words, for everyone), beginning with cinema. I shall try to explain your film when it premieres in Paris. I doubt these explanations will succeed in convincing anyone beyond a small (and reprehensible) circle of initiates…
And now for a change of topic. I’m negotiating with Fondo de Cultura Económica and Arnaldo Orfilo Reynal a Mexican edition of my new book La Vie Charlot (I sent you a copy in November, did you get it?). However, the editors, who published my little book El cine and have just issued a new edition, are not offering very favourable terms. Do you know of any Mexican publisher who might be interested? A serious publishing house, of course, that would be undeterred by competition from Francisco Pina’s Charles Chaplin (and prepared to produce an initial run of 1,000 copies)?
I would be very grateful if you could write back to me about this soon. And I would also like you to tell me about This Strange Passion, and whether I was correct in the intentions I attribute to you. But that can wait for another letter.
When, finally, will you return to France? What does your Robinson Crusoe mean for you?
We spoke of you at great length yesterday with Dominique Éluard and Eli Lotar.
Most cordially,
Georges Sadoul
Jo Evans & Breixo Viejo, Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters
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A list of season 2 cast and crew members, confirmed and speculated
I will try and keep this updated
Not counting the obvious ones
Please note that this is a list of both cast and crew members, so PAs and such are also included and not just actors
Also if you're interested: on my bts instagram I only follow people who have worked on season 1, and people I suspect worked on season 2. So feel free to go through the list of people I follow if you're into that
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Aaron Morton (Camera) - he’s listed on the very last picture as the camera-man
Adam Stein(Writer)
Alan F. (English solider)
Alexandria S.
Alison Telford (Casting)
Alistair Gregory - from this tweet so uncertain, but followed me back on my bts instagram account so seems to have some interest in ofmd
Amy Barber (Sound department)
Amy Tunnicliffe
Amanda Grace Leo
Amanda M. (Wedding guest)
Andrea Basile (Costume)
Andres Gomez Zamora (Visual effects)
Andrew DeYoung (Director) - I don’t remember if there was any other reason than the fact that he was in Aotearoa during filming
Andy McLaren (senior art director)
Andy Rydzewksi (Cinematographer)
Angelina Faulkner (Sound department)
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Blair Nicholson (Camera)
Blair Teesdale (Camera)
Brad Coleman (Visual effects)
Brad McLeod (Special effects)
Brian Badie (Hairstylist)
Bronson Pinchot (“Torturer”)
Bryn Seager - I don’t remember why but I follow him
Bryony Matthew (Food stylist)
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Caleb Staines (Camera)
Chantel Partamian (Visual effects)
Colin Elms (Art department)
Colin Rogers (Sound department)
Cora Montalban (Makeup and/or hairstylist) - I believe she was tagged in an instagram story once, and she’s followed by a ton of cast and crew members
Corrin Ellingford (Sound department)
Corey Moana (Camera)
Corry Greig (Art department)
Coti Herrera (Prosthetics/Makeup)
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Damian Del Borrello (Sound department)
Daniel Fernandez (Spanish priest)
Danica Duan (Assistan accountant)
David Boden (production manager)
David G. (Stand in)
David Rowell (Financial controller)
David Van Dyke (Visual effects)
Dennis Bailey (Hairstylist)- Leslie revealed that he’s there.
Dion Anderson (Rescue diver)
Don A. (Swampy Town folk)
Donna Pearman (Assistant accountant)
Donna Marinkovich (set decorator)
Doug McFarlene (Pirate)
Duncan Nairn (Visual effects)
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Eliza Cossio (Writer)
Erroll Shand (Prince Ricky)
Esther Mitchell (Camera)
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Fernando Frias (Director)
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Gareth Van Niekerk (Sound department)
Gary Archer (dental prosthetics)
Gemma Campbell (Visual effects)
Grant Lobban
Greg Sager (Safety manager)
Gregor Harris (Camera)
Gregory J. Pawlik Jr. (AD)
Gypsy Taylor (Costume designer)
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Haroun Barazanchi (Set designer)
Harry Ashby (AD)
Helene Wong (Voice work)
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Jacob Tomuri (Stunts)
Jaden McLeod
James Crosthwaite (Set decorator)
Jamie Couper (Camera)
Jason Samoa, possibly spotted on location
Jemaine Clement, pretty sure this is only based on his friendship with Rhys and Taika tbh
Jes Tom (Writer)
Jessica Lee Hunt (Makeup artist) - followed by a ton of crew and cast members and I believe she’s been tagged in instagram stories and such
John Mahone (Writer)
Jonathan Bruce (Sound department)
Jono Capel-Baker (Groom)
Jonno Roberts didn’t get the role from his audition, but could still have gotten a different role - hung out with Ruibo
Judah Getz (Sound department)
Julia Huberman (Sound department)
Julia Thompson (Costume)
Justin Benn (Republic of Pirates Town)
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Karl L. (Action extra)
Kate Fu
Kate Leonard (Casting)
Kathleen Zyka Smith (“Red Flag”)
Kosuke Iijima (Fabricator/Sculptor?) - due to interaction on this post
Kris Gillan (Fabricator/Sculptor)
Kura Forrester - followed by quite a few cast and crew members, but I don’t remember if there was anything else to it
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Laura Stables (SFX makeup artist)
Leanne Evans (Art department)
Lee Tuson
Leslie Jones (Spanish Jackie) - she’s spoiled this so many times, but gjfhdks
Leyla - followed by a lot of cast and crew members, don’t remember if there was more to it than that
Pet Summits has another free summit that might be of interest to some of you. This one is on pet anxiety. The talks probably vary in quality (*cough* some-sound-like-BS *cough*), but they are free for 48hrs after they go live so I figure the interesting ones are worth checking out at least the beginning of.
It starts tomorrow (shows how on top of things I am). September 18-22
Sept 18
*Dr. Edward Bassingthwaighte: Nervous System Co-Regulation - Nip Pet Anxiety In The Bud
*Shanti Zinzi MA: Feline Anxiety Prevention
*Ness Jones: How To Avoid Separation Anxiety in Dogs
*Doggy Dan: Anxiety and the Dog Calming Code
*Kamal Fernandez: Compassionate Training Techniques to Prevent anxiety
Sept 19
*Ruth Hatten: The Microbiome-Anxiety Connection
*Dr. Meghan Barrett: The Gut Brain Axis, Vagal Tone, and Anxiety
*Dr. Margo Roman: How the Microbiome Affects The Mental Health Of The Pet
Sept 20
*Joan Ranquet: Animal Communication
*Dr. Janet Roark: Essential Oils for Animals with Anxiety
*Dr. Casara Andre: Psilocybin And Anxiety For Pets
*Dr. Jeff Feinman: Homeopathy for Healing Anxiety
*Lisa Spector: Music For Anxiety - Creating A Sound Safe Home For Your Dog
Sept 21
*Christina Chambreau, CVH: Preventing and Resolving Anxiety Energetically
*Dr. Robert Silver: An Integrative Approach to Anxiety in Our Pets
*Dr. Edward Bassingthwaighte: How To Teach Your Pets Resilient Relaxation
*Dr. Alex Avery: Why You Need A Veterinary Exam And Workup And The Underlying Causes Of Anxiety
Sept 22
*Dr. Christopher Pachel: Veterinary Prescription Medications - When And Why They May Be Needed
*Dr. Cara Gubbins: The Art of Animal Communication in Understanding and Relieving Pet Anxiety
*Dr. Edward Bassingthwaighte: Healing Anxiety With Intentional Touch
*Dr. Edward Bassingthwaighte: Anxiety Is Simply Arousal With Nowhere To Go
Real Madrid Castilla: Fran Gonzalez; Ramon, Carrillo, Asencio; Tobias (75' De Leon), Angel (78' Pujol), Andres (67' Theo Zidane), Palacios (67' Munoz), Obrador; Paz (67' David Gonzalez), Alvaro Rodriguez
Artists, websites, interesting places & things ! ...
My memory is poor. As for the purposes of updating, I will add new postings to the top of the list. Albeit not alphabetized in this manner, it is easier to maintain.
I started the list so I would have all of the artists I love, places I've been, websites I like, all at a glance whenever I work on projects. Then I decided to share it. I mean, why not! At present it's mainly names without context. Which is a little unfair to artists. However, as I get more settled in my new home,I will provide more links, etc.(With Artists Permission Naturally.)
Thank You For Being Here ..... ~S
Peter Coulson - Photographer
Alina Bobyleva - model. (With the exception of a few fashion photographers I greatly respect, (*One of whom I will link above this note), I don't normally like to put too much emphasis on the modelling industry per se. However, with as much focus on blond or raven haired, tanned models. This young lady is a fair skinned redhead. When I was growing up as a fair skinned dark shade redhead, you never saw yourself represented in the fashion world.