Cinema of the 50's

Hollywood would enterto  a classic period of his post and starts to feel the threat of television but nevertheless finds a way to gather people in cinema. In these years will notice an influx of men in cinema generally and for all for the same reason. A beautiful and sexy blond,men will be attracted to she was Marilyn Monroe. She returned the desire of every man acting not because of how much more to her appearance. Cinema turns her into a sexual desire and in an object for men in her films like "marry a millionaire 'and' Men prefer blondes' she puts a price for every women. Every woman can be bought with a diamonds because diamonds are the best friends of women, I have promoted Hollywood-50s headed by Marilyn Monroe. He was leading this belief was great inventor and producer of aircraft but Howard Hughes movie. Was this man with a problematic character who bought the most beautiful women of the time like Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Anita Akbar and Kate Hepburn. The relationship with his women we be passing more beautiful in his films and this was not an intimate relationship or erotic but affiliation actors belonged to him and that I kitted with gifts from more expensive, many actors like Anita Akbar not played ever movies while leaving the production of Hughes. Although the fame of his films came to my generation. Either all girls worship Marilyn Monroe and her relationships with men in that has represented it in the cinema. Newspapers and magazines in Albania still talk about glorification of women in this period. Huges so would be quite proud of the beautiful brain wash that made women around the world and for so many years. So time and very few have realized that the brilliance of the diamond that a man gives a woman  is like a letter of ownership that we take when we buy a property, even if the relationship in pairs to go wrong a woman will look diamond and to forget everything will just just like a lawyer looks at his papers 

Promote your movie like Hitchcock did with Psycho

I am still wondering with my self is Mr.Hitchcock put a special policy on watching Psycho because it was needed to feel the movie fear or because he needed promotions. We know that we live in the world of the mouth but we learn also that if anything is limited edition we want to have it,this is what he did. First he screened it in some theaters then it got famous. I am listing below the regulations.

1.  Psycho need to be seen from the beginning and this is a must
You could read this regulations everywhere and people got curious just because they were not allowed to enter to the theater after the beginning of the act,at times were the publicity usually consisted on just buying tickets
and watch movies without any attached regulations

2. We won't allow you to cheat every theater manager is instructed to admit now one after the start of the   movie 
The theaters were responsible for this instructions to be followed by everyone also they put people in every exit so no one could entered or exit during the movie. This way people were told that they would live a unique experience.


I do not know if this policy would work now days because it is difficult for people not to chew or drink during the movie,it is a nightmare to get them to switch off the mobiles let alone entering in theaters accordingly a regulation,even though it is for their own pleasure. 

Dresses that you want to find in you wardrobe!

I have to confess that when a girl watches a movie besides crying over a love story or get inspired to change things in her life one other important thing is what the actresses are wearing. I am going to share with you my list, What list? ....come on you know what list we all have it - is the list of the dresses that we want to have some day or that we wish to sew in a cheap tailor in our neighborhood. I am sure that every other girl in the world has one of this dresses in her list.                      

1. Audrey Hepburn red dress in Fanny Faces is the one dress can every girl and women can wear and look gorgeous. We learn from the Hepburn not only to wear a black dress but also to be stunning with the red Edith Head and Givenchy dress.    

2.    Grace Kelly's blue dress in the movie

 'To catch a thief'.  I love the draping of chiffon, the way it flows in sections when she walks and  the two-toned bodice and skirt. 

3. 'Ten things I hate about you' tulle dress. I like it short and long but tulle skirt can be wear for a daytime look too.

 

5. The seven year Itch Marilyn Monroe white dress. I don't need to say anything about this dress because everything is already been said.

6. How to loose a guy in 10 days Kate Hudson yellow satin dress is simple and yet with a sexy back side.One bad thing is that your body should be flawless.

7. Sabrina,Audrey Hepburn. One of the most elegant and timeless dresses of all times.      

8. Atonement Keira Knightley  green satin dress. 

One thing is sure the dress became more famous then the movie.

Partisan Women

Partisan Women

During the Second World War Albania had two  national movements ‘Balli’ that later were called traitors to the motherland and the communist partisans, where there were also women. Starting from the first stories I heard of these women or teenage rebels and which leave the shelter of the family to fight in the name of freedom. All these stories were a good side and I just mentioned but had a bad side and the public opinion of these women had a moral controversial when communism came, many of them had born children during the war. The film has a duty to make heroin these women who sacrifice their own happiness for that of the country, so other rewards besides the film and we will help the public opinion people.

 But Albanian women and girls were not only tough but also smort. The film 'Girls with red ribbon' shows the movement and revolt of the  girls studying in the institute feminine. This event has in fact happened in reality because those girls that survived from this move will be the next executive in the Albanian government. These girls start to sabotage lessons by reading books banned by Italian teachers, read and learn about communism by creating a clan and distribution of treaties. Some girls not more than 17 years old are killed, the other out in the war and others continue to study as the country has also the need for educated people.. In the movie 'The Last Winter' are simple villagers  have a very important role in the course of the war, to supply with bread and clothes the partisans who hid to avoid being catch.

Movies in theater or from your PC?

I love going in theater to see movies is one of my favorite things to do but some times is not worth it.
Since I live in Tirane a weird thing happens when a movie is in theater at the same time you can watch it with good resolution in the internet. when my friends
invite me to go for a movie I want to check it first if i would like to spend my money to watch it or no. Then of course I like to watch it in theaters and I spend my 500 lek with pleasure to see the movie in 35 mm.
When I go there the movie is screening from the laptop of the projectionists! I mean are they serious...
If you go to ask them they tell you that they could affording only one print that is already late from the world premier and that is only available in one theater and the others do the screenings from a laptop. Well you should have told me that when I was buying the ticket mister. Now I have to know first where they are screening with 35 mm and go and see the movie if I really like it after I have seen it in my pc.
  

Women during communism

Once women accepted the challenge to do the heavy work with heavy machinery now she should be accepted and the highest leading role  and in medicine . they use to say 'women I have long hair and short mind' indeed I heard it for the first time In the movie 'old wounds' but this statement is not just a saying but it is the essence of the writer's thoughts on women in general people .To persuade people that Albania needs to be built and that women and men will work equally was easier than to say that a woman will hold the responsibility for their lives and well-being of the country .  of old wounds is determined in her profession and the suffering this prejudice while managing to fight it. In the movie 'Kapedani' a woman is a chief. Women was seen as a slave who must stay and serve only at home. One other movie which I have seen is the movie 'A long Year'. Here experiencing silent struggle of a woman whose husband was sick at the same time she has to fulfill her duty. The society here is a barrier because a wife should take care of the sick husband not go to work. The film proposes a solution other main character is able to do it all and  succeeds in challenging all those who do not believe that she could do it.

Same conflict different endings Movies

Same conflict different end,hollywood/europian plots

Two beautiful movies Le Mepris (Contept)and Indecent Proposal. In the first movie  ‘Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch.Because he let his wife Camille drive with Prokosch and he is late, she believes, he uses her as a sort of present for Prokosch to get a better payment.

In the second movie also Demi Moore persuaded by her husband accepts  the indecent proposal to sleep for one night with Robert Redford the millionaire,so they would solve the economic problem.

In the first movie when the wife discovers hers husband agenda she falls out in love from him and they break up. While in the second movie they at first try to go back together then break up as would have happened in the real life or so I belive but…. in the end I don’t know how they manage to get back together. Does this mean that the European cinema in this case is more honest about real life or Hollywood knows better things like - people always want a happy ending. 

The imaginary Albania of Hollywood

Hollywood screenwriters are very happy that Albania is not very known and they can imagine it as they wish. I imagine these screenwriters sitting in a table and thinking: What to add something interesting and fun to the script ... Let's through a bit of Albania cause ultimately people will not realize that we are talking bullshit.
Let's take the movie 'My Mom's New Boyfriend'  with the Albanian underground restaurant.

1.Albanians do not keep the chickens  in the middle of the house. Well we do sometimes  during New Year's eve but it stays in the bathroom , like in these movie below: 'In our home '

2. Belidancing is not the Albanian traditional dancing,you could have  googel it and find something  like: Lily Cingu. 

Liliana Cingu

But then the film would not have half naked women dancing I understand that.

3.I have not heard of us eating alligators. Birds like chickens, ducks I eat also lambs and cows. In Albania are no Crocodiles but now I am thinking that  probably we might have eaten them.

4. Graski - It looks like they have mixed the word Raki (Albanian Brandy) and Gezuar (Cheers), but I don't think that they gave it so much thought

 In the end, it turns out that the Albanian flag was the only Albanian thing there that charmed up the scene.

Albanian cinema during the years of communism

Albanian cinema during the years of communism.

For research purposes the role of women in Albanian cinema and what it would represent to the four periods of time and four different roles that cinema chose for women, At first we are beginning to educate her and then being inspired by her the Albanian women. In general lines of the Albanian cinema launched its first movie in 1953, first with Soviet Union collaboration. Actresses first borrowed from theater to mention  Naimi Frasheri (not the writer) and Besa Imami. The first Albanian directors come from schools in Eastern Europe where we have also influence in filmaking . These film director were not only young people who were eager to make their movies but also wanted to prove what they can do. Lenin in one of his speeches said 'Cinema is the power you need to have on our side' he was among the first people who understood the power of the cinema. One of the main tasks of these directors was to educate a society which had a high percentage of illiteracy and had for years suffered from malaria.
This duty would have the woman at the first short Albanian film.

Leaving behind the Middle Age
In the movie 'Her children' of  Husen Hakani 'Mari Logoreci plays the role of a mother who has a very sick child in the country and instead of sending her child to the doctor she send him to and old lady that prayed for the child. Through the rituals of this old lady the child dies. A movie with a script to simply start from the end of his narration but gives a very big message. Husen Hakani with his character drives all mothers to leave all superstitions rituals and spells behind and to turn to a doctor to get medical assistance. The Marie Logoreci character has a big impact on mothers that begin to address to the doctor without making the same mistake as that. However, teaching people not to believe medicine and superstition was not the only problem of society. Prohibition of blood feuds and marriages under customary law archaic, for an Albania that was being built, was another step that should emancipate society.

The film 'Why is this drum playing' treats this theme. Based on the novel "Wedding" Ismail Kadare. Katrina and Xhavit two young volunteers fall in love during the construction of a railroad and decide to marry. But the father of Katrina, a mountaineer who has betrothed her daughter without consent can not accept this marriage. He goes to the wedding ceremony to kill his daughter. But what ...? At the and love wins every time.

    

No Jew was injured during the implementation of this film"

‘Serious Man’

After the final scene of the film "serious man" the Coen brothers wrote a statement like: 

"No Jew was injured during the implementation of this film"

You can call it as a comic but also sarcastic statement or sharp,  tells the system of Jewish faith and delusions. Given that they depart from their personal experience, raised in a Jewish neighborhood, they make their statement even more attractive.

This is the first film of the brothers who have not well known actor and I also see that performance is not 'wild' if I refer Burn After Reading and No Country For Old Men. The film is centered on the late 60 'a period Larry Gopnikut  does not give any freedom or opportunity for his continuity in the profession at the same time when his private life is destroyed. A brief summary of his wife seeks divorce traditional that will remarry, his brother flawed sit sleep in the kitchen and occupies the toilet being taken to work in his science, his son must pay 20 dollar for marijuana, which has mare in school, his daughter steals Edition that will redo nose and hair washing problem and it is this the routine of private life of a provincial Jew. Males and females are not included with one another except in scenes where there is massive and non-Jews. Comic film scenes where brothers highlight their characteristic to emphasize comic of people are the neighbor of Larry hunts with rifle and subjective I plan on Bar Mitzvah boy. 

Tragicomic note even more when Professor sacking his house begins to meet with rabbays and wants to know why he's being bad luck,while they  could not give a respond. Personally relationship that first scene of the film starting with not related to his extension but it is characteristic of the brothers' immediate change of situation that I hook up a message or idea ultimately all lead to absurd existence of humanity. All the characters in the film handle the principles of unsecured or actions have consequences or not, or do not have to accept their mystery.

The film closes or is terminated as a puzzel simply have more of a piece more as was beloved wife of the professor or the Regulation of notes that student life Gopnikut will return as before or not this have on the wrist to believe we will be better or worse to or the same.

America during 40's- 50's (Noir)

America of the 40's - 55's

  America will emerge in the 45 world war after use bombs of mass destruction (nuclear) Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But social economic life in America was concentrated on women's work because they had already replaced men away at war. Emigrates to America and a large class of intellectuals who fled from Europe because of Hitler's genocide and fair to honor a director that will mark the next era of the Hollywood Film Noir.

American cinema of the 40's - 50's

Barbara Stanwyck Fred Macmurray
Double Indemnity

The cinema of these years and the first half of the 50's will get involved with a new concept of film as a noir or Black. In the center of this film would have "Femme Fatale 'or otherwise in poor said a woman who is ready to kill.
 Femme fatale  uses her charm and sensuality to deceive men in order to achieve wealth, independence and power and sometimes all three together are reached up killing them standing in their path. So they violate every norm of society to achieve selfish purposes.

The film will portray noir fatale as mighty independently to punish after being destroyed at the end of it and the male that loves. All these films have at their center a woman among them will be singled out, 'Double Indemnity'  wife is much younger than her husband begins an idyll of love with the agent of insurance for killing her husband and gain wealth insurance of his life denouncing and agent at the end.

Joan Crawford as Mildread Pierce

'Mildread Pierce' - A woman who sacrifices everything to raise her children in life mundane, fulfilling every whim but in the end her daughter becomes a killer when fancy her to be married to the man her mother is not fulfilled .
'Sunset Boulevard' - film cult of Hollywood's which is at the center Norma Desmond a star of silent cinema that was left by the time the castle of its old and that itself it would do everything to return before reflector cinema camera and doing murder to live a moment of fame. Film noir was the only one to respond from the situation in Europe is and its exact origin of German director.

Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blv.

                                              

                                                                                                   

America during 30's&40's

In America starts deflation to be followed by unemployment and then the great depression in the years '33. On top of the country comes Franklin.D.Roosevelt with his 100-day plan manages the situation and yet can not escape the onset of World War II '41 - '45. And while we Hollywood will enter its golden period.

American cinema of the 30s

In the '30s films were seen as salvation from the Great Depression and why that is why instead of royal palaces  the  cinema goes in the factories and in the street. Unemployed and hungry  people spend most of the time watching the wonderful life that movies showed. Hollywood entered its golden period with his stars as Bette Davis, Shirley teenager in the Temple and Ginger Rogers musicale.

 The sad years for Americans while stars continued their life of luxury. Scenario earned more  value in this period trying to comfort people. They begin from the councils of boredom, to facing the day with little income, Selection of life in the community not to lose hope of seeing the end of the situation so comical. Only one film broke viewership records in this period. Is the movie 'It happened one night' that entertained people with his humor during the depression. On top of the film is quite a couple of differences. A fired journalist played by Clark Gable and a snobbish rich heir played by Claudete Colbert. The film is like a reverse story of Cinderella because here we have a princess who had abandoned life to be simple become a journalist. A film where  Love wind over the socio-economic differences. The film "It happened one night 'made people laugh seeing that there may be people who leave wealth for love as did the main actors. Spectators women who go to the cinema to see films of Bette Davis or Claudete Colbert  and  that was the beginning of a new female model. Their films were in the spotlight main character of a woman who tries to do seduce husband who loves and in fact in 6 minutes of the last film she achieves its purpose by falling in the arms of the man you love or and disappointed by love but how is it during the 95 minutes prior to realize its goal. During all this time in cinema they showd a woman who works, keeps the house and children and yet after so many anxieties she succeeds to have a man, or to return home father of her children. With this view of these years I would say with conviction that female revolution has not started with 'Thelma and Louise' but has started at characters like Bette Davis in "All about Eve ',' Beyond forest 'etc.

Women of the 20's

Women of the 20's

Among the stars of 20's is Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Ava Gardner, etc. Less importance in this period was the scenario of a film or even the director, everybody looked liked a film just because the main actress Greta Garbo, for example. For this reason, the film is held in portrait narrow plans and was iconic actors that  hypnotize the public. This portrait comes cool, untouchable and quite perfect for the public in every detail of the face.   G.Garbo's face has left generations echo until today.
Actors will decide everything in a film from the script, the director that will work and each had a limited list of director of photography to be working with them.
These would be capricious goddess that would pave the way for what is called the golden age of Hollywood. Labeled the sad (Bela Balaz) or wax them were portraits of stars that have suffered the solitude of their perfection.

'Flapper's' everyday life and capricious goddess cinema can say convinced that the role of women in cinema is proportional to that of rebellion with its social life. This balance will be disturbed in the '30s.

Greta Garbo has a face that meets Plato's idea about human nature which explains why her face is almost unisex, so it shows no gender

America in the 20's

America in the 20's - 30's
America of the 20's or otherwise called the noisy American years. In political terms we are after the First World War and after the October revolution prevailed in America in general "Fear of Red". In the same period begins and prohibition thing that will pave the way smuggling alcohol illegally and its consumption. For the economy was a true boom and huge profits from the production of innovations in machinery behind were staggering, but this would be the cause of subsequent economic downturn that will result after the great depression of the years '33. The 20's will be remembered  for the eruption of jazz, young people will be called 'The jazz generation'. 
During this years will be born a young woman in society who is dancing Jazz, smoking cigarettes,consuming alcohol and above all she wins her right to vote. The new style of life began from the clothes she wore, which were lighter, the short hair cut. It would become a 'Flapper' .
All this was quite scandalous , but it will be helped from the consumed alcohol illegally, dancing Charleston and comfortable cars 'Ford' which became the home for girls in late hours. 
But this rebellion would not last. Let us accept that this period helped to be released from the female figure as the aesthetic Victorian way of life as well as in recognition of the other sex, in short formed modern woman of the 20th century libertine life of "Flapper-it ' It will end with the arrival of the great depression of the 30's.


American cinema of the 20's
In the 20's is the transition from silent cinema to sound. Mary Pickford forms the association of artists joined together with three other men as famous as were Ch.Chaplin, D.Fairbanks, D.Griffith. I needed to explain what it meant to go to the cinema at the time. Cinemas were built in very luxurious royal palaces with 3200 places a sale and every building in four halls. They had 3 to 4 day showcase of films and was considered a social event's most important time.   the new stars of the cinema were symbols of perfect female. Every one wanted to be like them,dressed like them and make life's mundane rich as these stars.