Graziano MARRAFFA celebrates the centennial of the film icon Marcello Mastroianni
I was working with Federico Fellini in Cinecittà (Rome) and during a break I went to the bar of the legendary city of cinema and there was Marcello Mastroianni who was talking to some film producers.
I introduced myself.
I was a friend of his wife the actress Flora Carabella and his close friend Federico Fellini.
We talked about Hollywood and Rudolph Valentino, a relative of a dear friend of my mother.
Mastroianni was often compared to Valentino, having an extremely attractive Mediterranean beauty.
Tall, perfect physique, very regular face, calm, kind, natural, strong.
He dressed in a classic way, but often with a touch of “casual”.
A huge success of Mastroianni was the musical “Bye Rudy”, about Rudolph Valentino.
Mastroianni is one of the most popular iconic movie stars in the world.
His way of acting is never “passionate” or overwhelming, but filters impulses and emotions through a mask that appears perfectly natural, but since it is a mask, it gives the impression of being able to change from one minute to the next and therefore produces mystery.
An iconic image of Mastroianni is the one with Anita Ekberg in the enormous Trevi Fountain in Rome in the legendary film by Federico Fellini: “La Dolce Vita”.
Mastroianni garnering many international honors including two BAFTA Awards, two Best Actor awards at the Venice and Cannes film festivals, two Golden Globes, and three Academy Award nominations.
Last September, one of the most eminent Italian film critics Graziano MARRAFFA, on the occasion of Mastroianni 100, curated an exhibition of rare film posters of the icon Mastroianni, illustrating his figure and giving precious information on the birth of these films in relation to Mastroianni.
The writing of a film is linked to various types of factors, but the artistic relationship between the author, the director, the star or stars protagonists is fundamental.
MARRAFFA is president of the Historical Archive of Italian Cinema which has a very important collection of vintage films and unpublished material made by world-famous directors and we hope that in the near future exhibitions of vintage films can be held in synergy with other important archives such as the Pacific Film Archive in California.
“Marcello Mastroianni, one hundred years after his birth” is the title of the MARRAFFA event which opened, last September, in Marina of Ragusa, Sicily, the XXVIII Costaiblea Film Festival, artistic direction by Vito Zagarrio, with an introduction by Marraffa and Vincenzo Cascone, in the presence of the Mayor of Ragusa Giuseppe Cassì, while, in a continuous cycle, the film “Marcello Mastroianni” by Angelo Piccione was screened, made up of scenes from the main movies starring Mastroianni.
Our civilized in wild tongue lick the vegetables; blood the pepper,
Giant enough to sting scorpion’s up our Stone’s
Yes Snippers wounds
BUT of the war of gods whom are strange and we slice our hands to lick,
Chanting crocodiles into our regions.
Strangers peep into the ocean bid of bowls as vegetable visit the bar on their tongue,
The motherboard gathers us in a destination where gorilla of new society are stock in the belly of females keep debating for whom birth it out
When the boy to seep from the cup of lit thick and the moon of ceaseless flowing river
Rushes down to the toe of an elephant,
Maybe our nightmares will drives us Long to where I birth out new baby
That will wipe away our scars in tears
And cleanse the raw looking of Old dining ( poverty)
I am devolution and revolution,
If am in the stage of first, I flash my network to sands of years back
How our images are reap God
and the thinking that laid in our neutral network now
Are deads then, if am the couplets
I envision tomorrow folding thousand days together
And I junction to a flower environment where I lick binta sugar
And it voice to me of
” Introduce your ash to him”
Clinging her hands to a light
And i hug her words as I pour out our challenges to. Yes he paved anew
Idris Sheikh Musa (Newborn Poet) is a prominent Nigerian writer from the heart of Minna. A member of Hill Top Creative Art Foundation (HCAF) national headquarters along David Mark Road, Minna, Niger state. He has some of his works published in magazines such as Legend International, Synchronized Chaos, Ikeke Art, and the Kalahari Review.
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John Dorsey is the former Poet Laureate of Belle, MO. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Which Way to the River: Selected Poems: 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020), Sundown at the Redneck Carnival, (Spartan Press, 2022, Pocatello Wildflower, (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2023) and Dead Photographs, (Stubborn Mule Press, 2024). He may be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com.
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or do they fall silent under the weight of human selfishness?
Breathe the air.
Is it pure, or does it carry the burden of forgotten choices?
Look at the ground beneath your feet.
Do you feel its pulse?
It feeds us, carries us, protects us,
yet we consume it as if it could never be exhausted.
Protect the river – it holds the future.
Protect the forest – it is a home.
Protect the air – it is life.
The Earth is calling us, softly and patiently,
but its voice grows weaker.
We must hear it now,
or one day, it will fall silent forever.
Maja Milojković was born in 1975 in Zaječar, Serbia. She is a person to whom from an early age, Leonardo da Vinci’s statement “Painting is poetry that can be seen, and poetry is painting that can be heard” is circulating through the blood. That’s why she started to use feathers and a brush and began to reveal the world and herself to them. As a poet, she is represented in numerous domestic and foreign literary newspapers, anthologies and electronic media, and some of her poems can be found on YouTube. Many of her poems have been translated into English, Hungarian, Bengali and Bulgarian due to the need of foreign readers. She is the recipient of many international awards. “Trees of Desire” is her second collection of poems in preparation, which is preceded by the book of poems “Moon Circle”. She is a member of the International Society of Writers and Artists “Mountain Views” in Montenegro, and she also is a member of the Poetry club “Area Felix” in Serbia.
