#milena dravic

[bulevar-revolucije]

Klakson (1965)

dir. Vojislav Kokan Rakonjac

[dare-g]

Man is Not a Bird (1965)

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[byneddiedingo]

Milena Dravic in WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, 1971) Cast: Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg, Zoran Radmilovic, Jim Buckley, Jackie Curtis, Betty Dodson, Nancy Godfrey. Screenplay: Dusan Makavejev. Cinematography: Aleksandar Petkovic, Predrag Popovic. Film editing: Ivanka Vukasovic. Music: Bojana Marijan.  WR: Mysteries of the Organism is an evocative movie for anyone who lived through the strange and eventually futile revolutionary ferment of the late 1960s and early '70s. It seemed then as if everything about sex and politics -- and sexual politics -- was being overhauled. It didn't turn out that way in the long run, but Dusan Makavejev's film is more than just a nostalgia piece or an outdated propaganda film. It does indeed explore mysteries, even if it sees them through a warped lens.

[randomrichards]

MAN IS NOT A BIRD:

Two labour workers

Lust for the same hairdresser

Circus comes to town

[manitat]

Rođena 5. oktobra 1940: Milena Dravić

[makavejev]

Covek nije tica (Man Is Not a Bird), Dusan Makavejev 1965

[advitamaeternam123]

E moj matori!

Satovi su stali jutros.

Vreme se po tankoj kazaljci prelilo.

Prošlost mi nju nabila pod nos.

Slabo se šta promenilo.

A mislio sam vetar je odneo iz glave

i dovoljno je to ime da ne spominjem.

Onda sam video pramen kose plave...

sav put tad posuo se injem.

Znaš, vino što pijemo, staro je.

(Ko njene oci onog dana)

Ovi trenuci postoje da sećanje broje,

a mnogo takvih stoji za nama.

Zaboravljeni negde gde se rađa Sunce,

igramo večite begunce.

Hteo bih zauvek da ostanem u snu,

jer u stvarnosti samo sam na dnu.

Dunav me nosio do napuštenog šlepa,

četrdeset i neku godinu daleko.

Na srcu su se rašila dva sitna štepa,

a to se desi kad kreneš preko.

Šetamo po Čuburi. Snovima lutamo.

U grudima mi parobrod, njeni prsti u šaci,

u džepu pozajmljene košulje,

pozajmljenih sto kinti

i samo jedna želja:

da večno traju koraci.

[teavalbooksinmoviesblog]

WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) ‘W.R. - Misterije organizma’  Directed by Dušan Makavejev

[mmoviejournal]

[certainwoman]

Rest in peace, one of the legends of Yugoslav cinema and particularly Black Wave. Milena Dravic passed away on October, 14, 2018, just 9 days after her 78th birthday. She is perhaps best known to international audiences for being in Dusan Makavejev’s W.R: Mysteries of Organism and Man Is Not a Bird. 

[lapsus-maja]

Nisi dama kad ti sirovina kaze da si lepa, vec kad dzentlemen zacuti pred tobom.

~ Milena DRAVIĆ

[dare-g]

WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)

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[byneddiedingo]

Janez Vrhovec and Milena Dravic in Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev, 1965) Cast: Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Stolan Arandjelovic, Eva Ras, Boris Dvornik, Roko Cirkovic, Dusan Antonijevic. Screenplay: Dusan Makavejev, Rasa Popov. Cinematography: Aleksandar Petkovic. Production design: Dragoljub Ivkov. Film editing: Ljubica Nesic, Ivanka Vukasovic. Music: Petar Bergamo. At first glance, Dusan Makavejev's first feature, Man Is Not a Bird, isn't much like his savage, surreal WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) and Sweet Movie (1974). Its focus on the working class reminded me of some of the other films that came out of Eastern Europe in the 1960s and '70s, such as Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde (1965), Jiri Menzel's Closely Watched Trains (1966), and Krzysztof Kieslowski's Camera Buff (1979) -- humorous but filled with a strong irony, especially where the heavy-handed communist regime was concerned. The events are set in a place of bleak documentary realism, in this case a gray, sooty mining town -- Makavejev began by shooting a documentary in the mining town of Bor in what's now Serbia, but getting to know the people and their stories led to what we might call meta-documentary, a fictionalized Bor and inhabitants. Somehow, they eke out their lives in a dreary place where the only amusements seem to be a con-man hypnotist and a very shabby circus. The mine and adjacent processing plants are visions out of hell: At one point, musicians arrive for the performance of the "Ode to Joy" choral section of Beethoven's Ninth, and a few of them lose their way to the hall where they're performing and find themselves in the smelting area where a shower of sparks ignites one woman's long dress. But Makavejev never makes the depressing setting and the bleak and sometimes brutal lives of his characters oppressive. There is just enough distancing from these characters that we can see them ironically and find even the brutish, abusive Barbulovic (Stolan Arandjelovic) a satiric figure rather than a realistic one. The pomposity of the bosses in awarding the engineer Jan Rudinski (Janez Vrhovec) a medal and a concert instead of a bonus for finishing his installation of new turbines ahead of schedule is a keen glance as the communist bureaucracy. It's not a particularly likable film, and it clearly has moments where it avoids treading on the censors' sensibilities, but I prefer it to Makavejev's later, more unfettered work.

[gejlepabrena]

Today we lost a real Yugo-legend. Rest in peace Milena Dravić (1940-2018)