Flowers from Innisfree Gardens + Thoughts on Toby Dammit.
Friends,
Visited Inisfree Gardens thinking perhaps it was the lotus season in
the lake but it seems that is from mid through late July...but there
were some small things and here is one which I like...
.
Likely more Innisfree photos tomorrow...Otherwise last night I watched
for the first time in years Toby Dammit the segment by Frederico
Fellini in "Spirits of the Dead" which also had segments by Roger Vadim
and Louis Malle which were not very good are perhaps responsible for
the overall film being hard to find. Toby Dammit is very well done...
and its gallery of grotesques seems to me more satisfactory than that of
Fellini's Satyricon...well you can watch this 40 minute film on youtube
and I suggest you do if interested. Nervous breakdown of British actor
(terrence stamp) in Italy to make a 'Catholic Western', attending awards
dinner, alcoholic, sees a little girl bouncing a ball who is his personal
vision of the devil.
"His devil must be his own immaturity
hence a child."
Fellini
The end parallels that of Poe's 'never bet the devil your head.' The
priest producer played by Salvo Randone is an interesting figure, in
a way among the other grotesques and buffoons in his project to make
something between Dreyer and John Ford in style, yet the themes of
the western of good and evil, chaos and order etc are serious ones also
for Fellini. As often with Fellini's Christianity there is an oddity and
an ambivalence, it is part of the Fellini world... as for each of us
our relation to God (or like the terrence stamp character to our
inner abyss of despair, also) is in terms of our own inner world isn't it?
Today these and as always invite all response
yours
+Seraphim
This first part of Toby Dammit deploys its themes, if you are not familiar
give it the 10 minutes and see what you think.
Visited Inisfree Gardens thinking perhaps it was the lotus season in
the lake but it seems that is from mid through late July...but there
were some small things and here is one which I like...
.
Likely more Innisfree photos tomorrow...Otherwise last night I watched
for the first time in years Toby Dammit the segment by Frederico
Fellini in "Spirits of the Dead" which also had segments by Roger Vadim
and Louis Malle which were not very good are perhaps responsible for
the overall film being hard to find. Toby Dammit is very well done...
and its gallery of grotesques seems to me more satisfactory than that of
Fellini's Satyricon...well you can watch this 40 minute film on youtube
and I suggest you do if interested. Nervous breakdown of British actor
(terrence stamp) in Italy to make a 'Catholic Western', attending awards
dinner, alcoholic, sees a little girl bouncing a ball who is his personal
vision of the devil.
"His devil must be his own immaturity
hence a child."
Fellini
The end parallels that of Poe's 'never bet the devil your head.' The
priest producer played by Salvo Randone is an interesting figure, in
a way among the other grotesques and buffoons in his project to make
something between Dreyer and John Ford in style, yet the themes of
the western of good and evil, chaos and order etc are serious ones also
for Fellini. As often with Fellini's Christianity there is an oddity and
an ambivalence, it is part of the Fellini world... as for each of us
our relation to God (or like the terrence stamp character to our
inner abyss of despair, also) is in terms of our own inner world isn't it?
Today these and as always invite all response
yours
+Seraphim
Click to viewThis first part of Toby Dammit deploys its themes, if you are not familiar
give it the 10 minutes and see what you think.