#béla balázs

[contremineur]

Elisabeth Bergner in Doña Juana (dir. Béla Balázs, 1928)

Juana fighting her reflection in the pond

from here

[rwpohl]

franz josef wetz: hans blumenberg zur einführung, junius verlag hamburg 1993, vorwort

[konyvboritok]

[scavengedluxury]

Béla Balázs street, Budapest, 1978. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[jokerlennon]

Stars reach their audiences primarily through their bodies. Photography, and especially the close-up, offers audiences a gaze at the bodies of stars closer and more sustained than the majority of real-life encounters. Béla Balázs, in particular, theorises the close-up on the actor’s face as a ‘window on the soul’ which ‘can find a tongue more candid and uninhibited than in any spoken soliloquy, for it speaks instinctively, subconsciously. The languages of the face cannot be suppressed or controlled.’ Colin McArthur argues that the meanings of stars are offered through ‘qualities that are almost entirely physical: the way the actor is built, what his [sic] face and body say about the way experience has treated him, the way he walks and talks’. As with melodramatic character, these qualities are selected and heightened to produce an emblematic effect. Lawrence Alloway writes of stars as ‘maximised types’. ‘In the movies we are faced with figures that embody in terms of contemporary references maximum states of age, beauty, strength, revenge, or whatever.’

Signs of Melodrama, Christine Gledhill

[celebratetheclassics]

Le Brasier ardent (1923) dir. Ivan Mosjoukine

“Mosjoukine’s most innovative use of Expressionism occurs during the editing of one particular sequence, that in which Z plays piano in a bar and Elle’s emotional turbulence surfaces. Mosjoukine builds suspense in the scene as it moves through a number of styles, from a very slow shot/reverse shot in which Z and Elle look into each other’s eyes to a rapid sequence at the end of the scene, when an extremely high volume of shots unfold, the average shot length of which is between only one and two seconds. The editing is used to create an explosion of neurotic jealousy experienced by the would-be lovers. This sequence conveys not just these feelings of emotional disturbance experienced by the lead characters, but also the wild sexual excitement of the audience, comprising licentious females and aroused males who dance to the increasing tempo of Z’s piano playing. Editing is less often examined as a feature of German Expressionist cinema, but that is indeed its purpose at this point in Le Brasier ardent. The fast and pronounced editing style—as well as the particular images being cut—generates a form of expressionist editing that communicates individual and mass neuroses and sexual desire. The result, to borrow a phrase from Béla Balázs, conveys the crowd’s most “expressive expression.” Put another way, here is editing that— as Kasimir Edschmid might say—“grasps what is behind” the characters—their increasing sexual desires—and rips them frenetically to the surface.” Bernard McCarron, Ivan Mosjoukine's clin d'oeil to German Expressionism in Expressionism in the Cinema, 2016.

[ivo3d]

A hatására gyerekként legoból vetítő gépet építettem, mert olyan jól elmagyarazta, hogy mi a lényege (35-os filmet és lego-motort osztalytarsaktol kaptam). Festő tanárom is támogatta ezeket. Aztán vettem super8-as kamerát és vetítő gépet is. A többi már történelem.

A Lumiere testvérek vándorvetitők voltak, ahogy Szirtes András is. Ez a meghatározás rám is illik. Személyesen nem ismertem, kellett volna vele beszélni, ezt is elbssstam.

Loopolt szomorúság van most.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.4

Beer Birthdays

Julius Deglow (1823)

William J. Seib (1836)

Rod DeWitt (1957)

Aaron Mateychuk (1965)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Louis Armstrong; jazz trumpeter, bandleader, actor (1901)

Richard Belzer; comedian, actor (1944)

Greta Gerwig; actress (1983)

Barack Obama; 44th U.S. President (1961)

William Schuman; composer (1910)

Famous Birthdays

Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov; Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (1912)

Warren Avis; businessman (1915)

Béla Balázs; Hungarian poet (1844)

David Bedford; English keyboard player (1937)

George Irving Bell; physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (1926)

Henri Berger; German composer (1844)

Roger Clemens; Boston Red Sox P (1962)

Allison Hedge Coke; American-Canadian poet (1958)

Robbin Crosby; guitarist and songwriter (1959)

Gerard Damiano; film director (1928)

Don S. Davis; actor (1942)

Mary Decker; track and field athlete (1958)

Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici; Florentine patron of the arts (1463)

Michel Déon; French novelist, playwright (1919)

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the UK (1900)

Herb Ellis; jazz guitarist (1921)

Frankie Ford; R&B/rock & roll singer (1939)

Witold Gombrowicz; Polish author and playwright (1904)

Jeff Gordon; race car driver (1971)

William Rowan Hamilton; Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (1805)

Knut Hamsun; Norwegian writer (1859)

Robert Hayden; poet (1913)

Martin Jarvis; English actor (1941)

Cleon Jones; New York Mets LF (1942)

Johann Gottlob Lehmann; German mineralogist and geologist (1719)

Leopold I, Duke of Austria (1290)

Helen Kane; singer and actress (1904)

Lee Mack; English comedian, actor (1968)

Meghan Markle; actress (1981)

Ernesto Maserati; Italian race car driver and engineer (1898)

Paul McCarthy; painter and sculptor (1945)

John Newton; composer of “Amazing Grace” (1725)

Walter Pater; English author (1839)

Clara Peller; “Where’s the Beef” lady (1902)

David Raksin; composer (1912)

Paul Reynolds; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1962)

Bernard Rose; English film director (1960)

Klaus Schulze; German keyboard player and songwriter (1947)

Percy Bysshe Shelley; English poet (1792)

Helen Thomas; journalist (1920)

Billy Bob Thornton; actor (1955)

John Henry Twachtman; painter (1853)

John Venn; English mathematician and philosopher (1834)

Louis Vuitton; French fashion designer (1821)

Raoul Wallenberg; Swedish humanitarian (1912)

Tim Winton; Australian author (1960)

Isoroku Yamamoto; Japanese admiral (1884)

[nemzetikonyvtar]

81 éves korában elhunyt András Ferenc, Balázs Béla-díjas és Kossuth-díjas filmrendező

[rwpohl]

der sichtbare mensch, béla balázs in texte zur theorie des films, reclam stuttgart 1995

[konyvboritok]

[chuckyeager]

Bíró Zsuzsa 1933-ban született Budapesten, és 1956-ban diplomázott a Színház- és Filmművészeti Főiskola dramaturg szakán. Közel száz nagyjátékfilmen és tévéfilmen dolgozott, Sándor Pál, Gárdos Péter, Herskó János, Simó Sándor és Szász Péter állandó munkatársa volt dramaturgként és forgatókönyvíróként, de dolgozott Szabó István, Gothár Péter, Elek Judit, Maár Gyula és Salamon András filmjeiben is. 1982-ben Balázs Béla-díjjal tüntették ki, 2003-ban elnyerte a 34. Magyar Filmszemle életműdíját.

[fovarosiblog]

2012-ben álltak neki az Átrium mozi felújításának, hogy létrejöhessen az Átrium Film-Színház. Akkoriban én is besegítettem a lomtalanításban, takarításban - így találtam rá a Balázs Béla Brigád brigádnaplójára a pincében.

[valarinde]

“For knowing you is happiness, and that happiness is knowing you.”

— Béla Balázs, from The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales