#paisan

[ryouichiii]

「Please keep looking at me without looking away.」

Tied ft. PAISAN

song : でんの子P ust : FlxPhlx art / pv / mix / tuning : myself

click here! : youtu.be/4nX6KGSodH8

Click 'Keep reading' to see the art...

bam!! paisan jumpscare

[auspicious-voice]

Promo'ing this cover HOLY SHIT

[byneddiedingo]

Dots Johnson and Alfonsino Pasca in Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)

Cast: Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Harold Wagner, Merlin Berth, Mats Carlson, Dots Johnson, Alfonsino Pasca, Maria Michi, Gar Moore, Harriet Medin, Renzo Avanzo, William Tubbs, Dale Edmonds. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, Klaus Mann, Federico Fellini, Marcello Pagliero, Alfred Hayes, Roberto Rossellini, Rod E. Geiger. Cinematography: Otello Martelli. Film editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Music: Renzo Rossellini.

The phrase "fog of war" was coined by Carl von Clausewitz in reference to the cloud of uncertainty that surrounds combatants on the battlefield, but it seems appropriate to apply it to the miscommunication experienced by the soldiers and civilians in Roberto Rossellini's great docudrama about the Allied campaign to liberate Italy in 1943 and 1944. The six episodes in Rossellini's film illustrate various kinds of problems brought about by language, ignorance, naïveté, and lack of necessary information. A young Sicilian woman (Carmela Sazio) struggles to communicate with the G.I. (Robert Van Loon) left guarding her; a Black American soldier (Dots Johnson) tries to recover the shoes that were stolen from him by a Neapolitan street urchin (Alfonsino Pasca) after he got drunk and passed out; a Roman prostitute (Maria Michi) picks up a drunk American (Gar Moore), but when he tells her of the beautiful, innocent woman he met six months earlier in Rome she realizes that she was the woman; an American nurse (Harriet Medin) accompanies a partisan into the German-occupied section of Florence in search of an old lover; three American chaplains visit a monastery in a recently freed section of Northern Italy, but only the Catholic chaplain (William Tubbs), who speaks Italian, realizes that the monks are deeply shocked that his two companions are a Protestant and a Jew. Only the final -- and the best, most harrowing -- section deals with the traditional concept of the fog of war, as Allied soldiers try to aid Italian partisans in their fight with the retreating but still fierce Germans. As in many Italian neorealist films, the actors are either non-professionals or unknowns, and their uneasiness with scripted dialogue sometimes shows -- at least it does with the English speakers; I can't judge the ones who speak Italian or German. There is also occasional sentimental overuse of the score by the director's brother, Renzo Rossellini. But on the whole, Paisan is still an extraordinarily compelling film, an essential portrait of war and its effects, made more essential by having been filmed on location amid the ruin and rubble so soon after the war ended. Glimpses of the emptied streets of Florence, bare of tourists and trade, are startling, as are the scenes that take place in the marshlands of the Po delta in the final sequence. The screenplay earned Oscar nominations for Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero, and Roberto Rossellini, but lost to Robert Pirosh for the more conventional war movie Battleground (William A. Wellman, 1949).

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Paisan (Paisà) (1946) Roberto Rossellini

February 12th 2023

[vocalenby]

Artfight attack 2! Vs BASTARD's character PAISAN 🐍

[lesbianlenses]

[blackscarabfilmz]

To start this new era of blog posting (to stave off my desire to self-publish a book of essays that the world doesn't need) I'm repurposing some old video essays into essay essays, starting with my review of Roberto Rossellini's "Paisan"!

It's mostly the same as the video but I ran it through Grammarly to clean up the grammar that works in speech but doesn't read properly.

[may-bonne]

[shreeky]

(from The Complete Hothead Paisan by Diane DiMassa)

[babylon-crashing]

Q: what do I do if a green witch desealed me?

[memories of a misbegotten childhood ...]

You know, whenever a Green Witch defuels, depuddles, deseals and purges me of all my precious bodily fluids I remember the advice that my auntie would give me while reading to me my favorite childhood picture book: Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist:

Indeed.

[drivingalonepastroadworkatnight]

[samurairobotics]

Diane DiMassa ~ artist

Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist

poster work on paper

c. 1993

OFFSET LITHOGRAPH PAPER

17.12 in HIGH x 11.00 in WIDE

(43.50 cm HIGH x 27.94 cm WIDE).

All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.

2010.54.4205

[dinosaurwithablog]

I did it!!! I made NY pizza in Washington State!!!!! Oh my, it's sooooooo good. I hand grated caccicavallo, Parmesan reggiano, and pecorino romano. I made a fantastic sauce with the rinds of the cheeses and the cheese themselves. I, also, used some of the Alfredo sauce that i made the other day on the pizza. But the thing that made it authentic NY pizza was the dough. My good friend Vinny, who owns Super Pizza, in Bellmore, NY, shared his wisdom about making pizza dough, and it made all the difference in the world!!! The dough was thin, light yet crispy, and it folded just like it does in NY. And from now on, I'm ordering real Italian cheeses online because it tasted so much better than the store bought cheeses do. I'm proud to say that was the best pizza that I've ever made! Thanks, Vinny 😍😋😊 that was spectacular!!! ❤️❤️❤️ mama mia, that's a great 🍕🍕🍕🍕😋😍

[hellyesbro]

What working in south philly has taught me is that men of any class, creed or color can have a thick as fuck italian american accent

[sap-woods]

[itsawritblr]

I love it, too. Fits my mood on many occasions, and I'm fucking straight.

Diane DiMassa, from Hothead Paisan