Reuters - Film director Roman Polanski, arrested in Switzerland over a U.S. charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, will fight extradition to the United States, his lawyer said on Monday.France 24 | Polanski vows to fight US extradition request | France 24
Polanski, 76, who has dual French and Polish citizenship, was detained on Saturday after arriving to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival.
"He is in fighting mood and determined to defend himself," Herve Temime, Polanski's lawyer, told France Info radio, adding his client was stunned by the arrest as he was a regular visitor to Switzerland, with a chalet at the ski resort of Gstaad.
"We have begun by requesting his release, which should be done today in principle," Temime said. "There is no reason in law, or regarding the facts or in terms of the most basic justice to keep Roman Polanski a single day in prison."
A Swiss justice ministry spokesman said it was theoretically possible that Polanski could be released on bail, although that was very unlikely. "The criteria for bail are very strict," spokesman Guido Balmer said.
Polanski was initially arrested in the United States in 1977 and charged with giving drugs and alcohol to a minor, Samantha Geimer, and having unlawful sex with her. Geimer of Hawaii has since said Polanski should not face any jail time.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner spoke to his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey to discuss the case, a Swiss ministry spokesman said. Kouchner also told French radio on Monday he was working with Poland on the matter and had written to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
During a visit to Paris on Monday, Swiss Economy Minister Doris Leuthard said the country had no choice but to enforce an international arrest warrant against Polanski.
"The Americans strongly believe that the arrest of Mr Polanski is necessary. That's for them to decide. Switzerland is simply a state where the police functions and where we treat all people in the same way," she told a news conference.
Leuthard rejected suggestions Berne had arrested Polanski to help patch up ties strained by a high-profile U.S. tax case against Swiss bank UBS, which agreed a settlement over charges it helped wealthy Americans stash assets in secret accounts.
"The two things have absolutely no connection," she said, and when pressed on the timing of the arrest referred further questions to the Swiss Justice Department.
Swiss authorities have said that in the past they only heard about Polanski's visits after he left the country.
Free Polanski?
The U.S. authorities have up to 60 days to make a firm extradition request, but Polanski can appeal to the Swiss Federal Penal Court of Justice.
Wearing red badges reading "Free Polanski", the Zurich Film Festival jury accused Switzerland of "philistine collusion".
"We hope today this latest order will be dropped. It is based on a three-decade-old case that is all but dead but for minor technicalities. We stand by and wait for his release and his next masterwork," said jury president Debra Winger.
Other members of the movie profession including Italian actress Monica Bellucci, French actress Fanny Ardant, president of the Cannes film festival Gilles Jacob and Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai issued a petition demanding his immediate release.
Public opinion is divided. Responses to a Reuters blog on the Polanski arrest included those who opposed it as a waste of U.S. taxpayer money and people who supported the move.
"In my opinion it is totally right to arrest Mr. Polanski," wrote Otto Meier. "What he has done is awful and needs to be atoned."
Polanski has avoided countries with extradition treaties with the United States since fleeing in 1978. He has never returned to Los Angeles, where his pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, was murdered by followers of Charles Manson in 1969.
The director was originally indicted on six charges, including rape. He has insisted the sex was consensual but pleaded guilty to a single count of having sex with a minor and received a sentence of time served after spending 42 days in prison undergoing psychiatric tests.
Polanski fled on the eve of his 1978 sentencing because he believed a judge might jail him for 50 years. His lawyers tried and failed earlier this year to have the case dismissed after a documentary raised new questions of judicial misconduct.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said on Sunday Polanski had received a very lenient sentence, which would never be achievable under today's laws.
"Some form of justice will finally be done," he said.
Born to Polish-Jewish parents on Aug. 18, 1933, Polanski spent his first three years in Paris before the family returned to Poland. He escaped when the Germans sealed off the Krakow Jewish ghetto but his mother later died at Auschwitz.
Polanski scored a huge hit in the United States with 1968 horror thriller "Rosemary's Baby", and another with 1974's "Chinatown", a stylish thriller starring Jack Nicholson that was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.
"Tess" (1979) also earned him an Oscar nomination, and Polanski finally won his only best director Oscar for the 2002 film "The Pianist", the story of a Jewish-Polish musician who sees his world collapse with the outbreak of World War Two.
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9:40 Diane Sawyer interview, conducted 10 years after Polanski's self-imposed exile from the United States. This is the only clip on YT besides Sundance Channel's Doc (which links here) with the Samantha Geimer story details from Roman Polanski's side.
Diane Sawyer snagged the scoop, and she asks a very nervous Roman (who actually asks to start the interview over) about his career, the holocaust, and of course the reason why he exiled himself: Samantha Geimer (Gailey) and the circumstances that led up to the trial, as well as the events which prompted him to finally flee the country.
There is discussion (painful to watch) of his last memories of his parents going off to the concentration camps, as well as insight into the Manson murders and their impact on him, his career, and how this may have had something to do with the downward spiral which ended up causing his actions with the 13-year-old Geimer.
Very interesting piece from 1987. Nowhere else online that I saw. I had it over at - http://www.dailymotion.com/mrjyn about two years ago, and just remembered it was there. i think it has about ten thousand views pre zurich-arrest.
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- http://www.visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com - In 1977, Polanski, then aged 44, became embroiled in a scandal involving 13-year-old Samantha Geimer (then known as Samantha Gailey). It ultimately led to Polanski's guilty plea to the charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. According to Geimer, Polanski asked Geimer's mother if he could photograph the girl for the French edition of Vogue, which Polanski had been invited to guest-edit. Her mother allowed a private photo shoot. According to Geimer, "Everything was going fine; then he asked me to change in front of him. It didn't feel right, and I didn't want to go back to the second shoot." Geimer later agreed to a second session, which took place on March 10, 1977 at the Mulholland area home of actor Jack Nicholson in Los Angeles. "We did photos with me drinking champagne," Geimer says. 20 seconds ago by mrjyn thanks for watching my two roman polanski videos. the diane sawyer piece is from 1987, his first interview after he left the country. it's 10 minutes and i guess it's up on a couple news sites, because it got 4000 views in a couple of hours. - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=roman+polanski+samantha+geimer# thanks for watching my two roman polanski videos. the diane sawyer piece is from 1987, his first interview after he left the country. it's 10 minutes and i guess it's up on a couple news sites, because it got 4000 views in a couple of hours. - http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=roman+polanski+samantha+geimer# - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2w3kw_roman-polanski-first-interview-afte_news - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x977sp_roman-polanski-arrest-samantha-geim_news THIS IS RARE ARCHIVAL POLANSKI FOOTAGE TAKEN DURING THE FIRST DAY OF TRIAL 1977. RT @mrjyn - bit.ly - #Roman #Polanski Samantha Geimer Trial 1977 - READ ALL POLANSKI Roman Polanski [Samantha Geimer Trial Footage 1977] Also watch Roman Polanski's 1er int. 10 years after exile discussing Samantha Geimer at Also watch Roman Polanski's 1er int. 10 years after exile discussing Samantha Geimer at www.youtube.com - www.visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com - roman polanski 13 year old, samantha geimer, roman polanski, samantha geimer picture, roman polanski sharon tate, roman ... youtube.com Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired (fr. tsr.) Roman Polanski - Wanted and Desired (fr. tsr.) Directed by: Marina Zenovich Starring: Pedro Almodóvar ... Himself Istvan Bajzat ... Himself Steve Barshop ... Himself Marilyn ... Watch this video on garagetv.nl Roman Polanski - First Interview After Arrest (Diane Sawyer 1987) 9:40 Diane Sawyer interview, conducted 10 years after Polanski's self-imposed exile from the United States. This is the only clip on YT besides Sundance Channel's Doc (which ... This video cannot be played here. Watch it on youtube.com. Watch video here Roman Polanski [Samantha Geimer Trial Footage 1977] 00:40 - 4 months ago dailymotion.com Sex crime allegations In 1977, Polanski, then aged 44, became embroiled in a scandal involving 13-year-old Samantha Geimer (then known as Samantha Gailey). It ultimately led to ... Watch this video on dailymotion.com CINÉMA : Une nouvelle bataille judiciaire 'annonce pour Roman Polanski Le cinéaste franco-polonais Roman Polanski, arrêté samedi soir en Suisse à la suite 'un mandat 'arrêt américain datant de 1978, 'apprête à contester son extradition devant ... rance24.com Roman Polanski bit će izručen SAD-u Roman Polanski uhićen je pri pokušaju ulaska Švicarsku gdje je na filmskom festivalu ürichu trebao primiti nagradu za životno djelo. Uhićen je na osnovi uhidbenog naloga ... Polanski cere sa i se prescrie acuzatiile
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Albino killers 'should be hanged'
BBC NEWS | Africa | Albino killers 'should be hanged'Albino killers 'should be hanged'
Albino people live in fear in Tanzania and BurundiThe Tanzania Albino Society (Tas) has called for the men found guilty of killing an albino boy to be hanged publicly as a warning to others.
A court sentenced them to death for attacking the boy and severing his legs for use in witchdoctors' potions.
The BBC's John Ngahyoma in Dar es Salaam says there are more than 100 people on death row, but no-one has been executed in more than 15 years.
But Tas chairman Ernest Kimaya urged the president to endorse the sentence.
"I want other perpetrators to learn - seeing is believing," he told the BBC.
Mr Kimaya told Tanzania's Citizen newspaper that a public execution would also "show that the government is serious in its war on albino killers".
In the past two years, 53 albino people have been murdered in Tanzania.
Albino people, who lack pigment in their skin and appear pale, are killed because potions made from their body parts are believed to bring good luck and wealth.
The Tanzanian government has publicly stated its desire to end the killings.
In March, President Jakaya Kikwete called on Tanzanians to come forward with any information they might have.
Reprisal fears
Officials banned witchdoctors from practising, however many have continued to work.
Many of Tanzania's estimated 17,000 albino people are now living in fear, especially in villages in the north-west where the majority of the murders have occurred.
The case in Kahama on Wednesday was the first conviction in Tanzania for an albino killing.
Correspondents say there is also a fear of reprisal killings as witchdoctors and their clients wield a lot of power in their communities.
Witchdoctors in Tanzania and other parts of East Africa have made tens of thousands of dollars from selling potions and other items made from the bones, hair, skin and genitals of dead albino people.
They pay a lot of money for body parts.
In July a court in neighbouring Burundi sentenced one person to life in prison and eight others to jail for the murder of albino people whose remains were sold in Tanzania.
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 (TALKS ABOUT THE BEDROOM NUDE PHOTO AND HIS MURDERED FRI
This candid interview with photographer William Eggleston was conducted by film director Michael Almereyda on the occasion of the opening of Eggleston's retrospective William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A key figure in American photography, Eggleston is credited almost single-handedly with ushering in the era of color photography. Eggleston discusses his shift from black and white to color photography in this video as, "it never was a conscious thing. I had wanted to see a lot of things in color because the world is in color". Also included in this video are Eggleston's remarks about his personal relationships with the subjects of many of his photographs.
Michael Almereyda is director of the film William Eggleston and the Real World (2005).
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There's only one thing cooler than William Eggleston - Martin Amis blogging about William Eggleston - Hipshots
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July 13th, 2009 Posted in photography | 1 Comment »
Don’t miss Tuesday night’s (14/7) 50 minute documentary The Colourful Mr Eggleston part of the BBC Imagine series. The show is directed by Reiner Holzeimer, so presumably it will feature much of the footage from the short DVD on Eggleston by the same director.
40 online photography magazines
May 11th, 2009 Posted in photography | No Comments »If you havent checked it out already, then have a good browse through the excellent list of 40 online photomags here, courtesy of Smashing Magazine (also check out the other suggestions in the comments.) Any photographer looking for a little exposure, could do a lot worse than submit to a few of these.
Martin Parr news
April 23rd, 2009 Posted in galleries, photography | No Comments »
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Interesting news on the wire today that Martin Parr will be curating the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial. From Martin Parr: “I am looking forward to having the opportunity, through Brighton Photo Biennial, to share some of my passion for photography by exhibiting some recent finds of new work. I also want to build on the success of the last Biennial by focusing more on placing shows within Brighton & Hove and making the event a centre of dialogue and discovery.” Read the full press release here.
Look out too later this year for a retrospective of images from Parr’s books at Rocket Gallery.
William Eggleston Paris
April 6th, 2009 Posted in galleries, photography | No Comments »
On show now at the Fondation Cartier is William Eggleston’s recent work on Paris. A full review can be found here via Sean O’Hagan of the Guardian. Also check out the Fondation site for a few tantalising (e.g tiny) glimpses of the upcoming book/catalogue and a video of the maestro tinkering the ivories.
More on the book, can be found at the Steidl website here.
The book was due out March 1st, Fondation Cartier states April, Steidl say May and my contact has told me Autumn 09. So place your bets!
TINTO BRASS
TINTO BRASSTHE WORKS OF TINTO BRASS
Avant-Garde, Underground, and Guerrilla Filmmaking—Continued
(Howl, 1968–1970)
MIDNIGHT SCREENING AT THE SILENT MOVIE THEATRE IN HOLLYWOOD ON FRIDAY, 10 APRIL 2009!!!!!!!
Click here to read a really nice promo piece
Artwork by Piero Iaia for what appears to be a proposed English-language release, which never happened
(From Dott. Lorenzo Codelli et alia’s Nerosubrass, p 68.)
DVD NOW AVAILABLE! THANKS TO CULT EPICS! The 1:1.85:1 transfer at 16×9 is not the best, but don’t blame Cult Epics! That was the best material available. Really. I’m not joking. So don’t gripe. Just enjoy it. If you really feel compelled to gripe, then help out with a proper restoration, and cross your fingers and hope that the master elements still exist somewhere.
If you have a really, really, really fast connection, click here to see a (distorted) clip.Are you in the mood for something a little out of the ordinary? Well then, this one’s for you! Edvard Munch’s painting Skriket (The Scream) and Alan Ginsberg’s poem Howl, along with the omnipresent countercultural movement, inspired Brass to make this movie, which stars Tina Aumont and the great Italian clown Luigi “Gigi” Proietti. Below is a bare-bones summary which contains spoilers that really aren’t spoilers because even if you know they’re coming they’ll still surprise you. The movie is brim-full of social and political commentary, but when you see it, you can figure all that out on your own. No description can possibly do this film justice!!!!! The synopsis is only here to give you the smallest hint of what you will witness. Watch the movie, and you’ll see what I mean! It’s a one-of-a-kind movie, and I still find it it the most exciting movie I’ve ever seen.
I’ve watched this movie countless times. Now, I can’t speak, read, write, or understand Italian. I need to spend just a few months in Italy to pick up the language. In the meantime, I can struggle a bit and get the gist. But not with this movie. Finally I got a translation of the dialogue. And now I see why I could never understand it before. Here’s an example. A priest is performing a wedding ceremony:
PRIEST: Can the bird of Paradise strike against the annihilated consumed tree of your sap without a parachute?
GROOM: Yes.
PRIEST: And can the tired turtle fly fast in the months of July on Wednesday?
BRIDE: Um.
PRIEST: Ergo I lengthen a box on tip-toe, figs and cloves of breath. Anise.And what did the lion tell Coso and Anita in the cemetery?
Stop. Don’t play the game of the cemetery too. Block the communication circuit with barbed wire. Is he there? Will he be there? When will he be back? Clean-cut and resolute. An obol to the obelisk, a somersault in the middle of the night, piercing a syringe in the nose. Two perfumed fingers in the anus to draw syntactic, semantic and orthographic eggs. Hey, what are you doing? Pulling my leg? Then you didn’t understand a damn thing. Stop or I’ll eat you.Well, I still feel stupid. But I don’t feel that stupid anymore.
SPOILERS: England, 1969. All the inhabitants are Italians except for one American who wears a barrel. Anita has been incarcerated for participating in an anti-war riot, so her bourgeois fiancé Berto bribes the police commissioner for her release. Berto immediately proposes that they set their wedding date for Sunday. At the ceremony, in a dump and with the officiating priest wearing a shrunken head on his necklace, Whatshisname (“Coso” in Italian) chances by and smiles at Anita. Before she can say “I do” she runs off with him and catches a London double-decker bus (driven by Tinto Brass) that drives out to the countryside. The passengers occupy the bus and set it aflame in time for the Keystone Kops to arrive. Anita and Whatshisname somehow escape from prison and hitch a ride with another incarnation of Berto and Anita to an ultra-mod Bosch-like hotel where Anita runs into another incarnation of herself as a guest. The next morning the hotel’s cowardly nightwatchman chases after them into a field, where they are all accosted by The Greatest Philosopher, attired in a loincloth and periwig, who invites them to his unbuilt house in a field where he offers them a freshly cooked man for lunch. Before they become the next guests’ meal, Anita and Whatshisname run off to catch a train. While Whatshisname threatens to eat Anita, a priest stabs a masturbating passenger, and Whatshisname, made up as a sad clown, tearfully muses on the bitterness of dreams and then tries to eat a corpse. Anita and Whatshisname jump off the train and end up in a battlefield, for England is being invaded by the Nazis, the Blackshirts, and the Vietnamese. Anita is assaulted by Berto’s troops, and Whatshisname meets the assassinated-but-resurrected Intellectual who pretends to direct him to her. In the midst of the battlefield, a piano player who speaks in sound effects promises Whatshisname that he can find Anita by singing. They are rounded up by a firing squad who somehow manage to miss Whatshisname. Anita finds him and together they locate the dictator, a wind-up midget wearing a Napoléon costume and a Hitler mustache who conducts his hymns from a foley studio, while the atrocity sequence from NEROSUBIANCO is projected on the screen behind him. They machine-gun him and Anita takes over the microphone, causing the resistance to gain the advantage. The war over, Anita and Whatshisname party with some hippies in a sewage tunnel, steal a motorboat that immediately explodes, and are caught in a fishnet by medieval minstrels who place them back on shore where, after hearing Michelangelo speak to them from a rock, they liberate a prison that’s run by Berto and a pig disguised as a lion. The prisoners worship Anita as a goddess but then unceremoniously dash away as soon as they find the exit door. Anita and Whatshisname converse with dead historical figures in a graveyard that Berto tends, and are scolded by a lion for disturbing the repose of the cemetery. In a field, decorated with motionless people and a trio who play invisible instruments, Whatshisname tells Anita to start over again. She steals a car and drives away. Anguished at the prospect of her future, she loses control of the car and dies. Whatshisname nonchalantly tells us that Anita was intelligent but crazy. He walks off into the distance to catch a bus.
Interesting that these lobby cards illustrate so many scenes that never made it to the final film.
I wonder if that footage still exists somewhere....Okay now, who wants to top that? Brass doesn’t want to leave his audiences feeling indifferent. Well, unless you’re a hopeless bore, this won’t leave you feeling indifferent, that’s for sure. The costumes (and the unexplained and impossible costume changes) are a wonder to behold. Much or most of the film was obviously improvised, written as it was being made. That helps. Many of the locations look nothing like England, and according to Cinema X (vol 1 no 4 [1969?]), in addition to England, the film was made “on location in Rome, Naples, Berlin, Paris, and on a nudists’ island.” Filming began at the end of September 1968 and wrapped by or before April 1969. The budget, as with Heart in His Mouth and NEROSUBIANCO, was close to zero. This was Brass’s first collaboration with the fabulous Fiorenzo Carpi, whose music is infectious, especially his upbeat theme song, “It’s an Evil World; It Won’t Tolerate Love” (“È un mondo cattivo non tolera l’amor”). L’urlo received its world première a year later at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, 27 June 1970.
Edvard Munch, Skriket
Hieronymous Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights
Yes, I know I’s an ignoramus because I don’t know who painted this. De Chirico maybe? What’s the title?
Whatshisname catches someone’s attention.
Escape.
Tinto Brass as the bus driver can take no more.
Remember those days?
The Keystone Kops come to the rescue.
Occupation.
Hitchhiking.
Berto is everyone.
Hotel regulations:
“We are in a free country and whoever pays can have whatever he wants — all in advance, please.”
Who is this? Bonifacio by any chance?
’Twould never be.
(Who is that actor? Giorgio Gruden maybe?)
Hovering over...
...Spike Hawkins’s Tree Army Poem:
Alert ruin!
They shout
from the trees
stupid bloody acorns.
That’s it. That’s the whole poem.Some of the hotel’s guests
The woman-and-swan motif would pop up again in Caligula but the humorless editors would cut it out.
Another motif that would pop up in later movies.
Taking dictation.
Tino Scotti as The Intellectual.
The hotel’s confessional
Guests in a hotel room.
And why not?
The gentle art...
...of underacting.
(That’s Tino Scotti again, this time as a security guard.)
The Greatest Philosopher.
Thanking Mother Nature.
Entering the home of The Greatest Philosopher...
...who prepares a meal.
Inside the philosopher’s home
How to rescue a deleted scene.
Who on earth is this actor?
Awakened from a dream.
A political discussion.
(Who is that actress?)
Encountering Diogenes, the American (Edoardo Florio)
Commentary.
Geloni = chilblains = swellings caused by exposure to cold (to say nothing of the decapitated head mounted onto the cello).
Realizing that something is amiss.
The Intellectual resurrected.
Line-up for the firing squad. Goes by so quickly you can hardly make out what’s happening: The musician plays a recorder and a member of the firing squad brings a chair for the little old lady.
At long last, they discover command headquarters...
...operated by awind-up doll .
The return of Bonifacio B?
I swear that’s Sady Rebbot. He also appeared earlier, as one of the threesome in bed at the surreal hotel, but we couldn’t see his face clearly and he was on screen only for the briefest moment. But even in bed he had his helmet on!
Take over.Anita ends the war. Who wants to convince me that Richard O’Brien never saw these stills even though they were published in England in 1969?
Party time.
They’re homeless, and their only property is a lunch box, so where do they get all the costume changes andmake-up and new hair styles?
Mondo cattivo!
Rescue by roving minstrels.
A place of expiation...
...and a place of Redemption!
Why can’t we dress like this at the office?
The Prison Warden and his lackey.Anita liberates the prison.
(Where on earth was this filmed?)NOTE ADDED ON FRIDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2006: As he so often does, Marco Fornier answered my question. This is the prison on the island of Santo Stefano, off Ventotene Island, which you can see and read about at Ventotene & S.Stefano and at Wikipedia: Isola di Santo Stefano. Remember back in school when we had to learn about Jeremy Bentham and his new Utilitarian idea for prison construction, which he called the Panopticon? The Panopticon simply demonstrated to me that Bentham was out of his bloody mind. Interestingly, there was also another Panoptikon, an invention by Grey and Otway Latham, along with their father, Major Woodville Latham — which, of course, leads us into the story of the Latham Loop and the Motion Picture Patent Wars which were settled in 1908. Why am I interested in this stuff? And why did Americans back then have such unusual names?
Cemetery.
The tail end of an otherwise-deleted segment.The wedding that never happened.
A deleted sequence.“A ha!” I hear you scream at me triumphastically. “The frame captures above show that you’re lying, because they prove that there is a better copy of the movie than what we get from Cult Epics!!! So what do you have to say to that, Mister Know-It-All?” This is what I have to say. The above frame captures are from an Italian cablecast, which was letterboxed 4×3 and with a rather soft focus and pixelation. The broadcast was from some sort of professional videotape, not from a film element. The videotape ultimately derived from a film element that cannot now be located, and which was censored, at times quite severely. Nonetheless, I would like to find that film element. If you know where it is, please write to me. Actually, I would like to find the camera neg and the master audiotapes. If you have any idea at all where they might be hiding, give me a holler. Trims would be interesting too, because so much was shot never made it into the final movie.How could a movie like this miss? Simple—the Italian censors banned it. Brass could have compromised by cutting the film, but he stuck to his principles. By the time the censors cleared the film for release in 1974, the grooving hippie scene, which had inspired this film, had pretty much vanished, and so the movie died.
The Cry seems to have been planned at one time as the official English title, and then, as you can see above, a logo gave the title as Howl, but since the film was seemingly never released internationally, that hardly matters. Various journalists have referred to L’urlo as The Howl, The Shriek, The Screech, and The Scream. Take your pick.
NOTE: Luigi “Gigi” Proietti also worked on four more Tinto Brass projects: he appeared in Dropout, he sang two songs in La vacanza, he was to have starred in a never-made movie called Punch, and he also directed the Italian dubbing of Salon Kitty. So I guess they’re friends.
After you see this movie you’ll be a Gigi Proietti fan. So here are some web sites:
Gigi Proietti Home Page
Gigi Proietti in The Full Monty
Katia Ippaso, “Intervista a Gigi Proietti”
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