Alida Valli – the Italian actress who starred in Visconti’s Senso and Graham Greene/Carol Reed’s The Third Man and (who could have known this?) whose husband apparently wrote “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” – is dead. I remember her from both of those films (although it’s been a long time since I’ve seen Senso) and from Bertolucci’s La Luna (a movie I liked better than most people).
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1. mrbones:I hope this item is better sourced than Roger’s Kos/Reynolds babble. If it’s not, I’d just as soon believe that Valli is alive and well.
Apr 27, 2006 - 10:55 am 2. Sandy P:What’s going on w/La Liz?
Is her heart really giving out?
Apr 27, 2006 - 4:45 pm 3. Mgmax:I just watched Senso a few months back on TCM– alas the print was not good at all, faded color, I hope the material exists for someone to do a knockout restoration. (At least it wasn’t the English dub which, despite being written by Tennessee Williams and Paul Bowles! –is supposed to be wretched). Anyway, a stunning film, an opera without singing (quite consciously, both in its choice of a story of operatic emotion and revenge, and in the staging which often suggests people on a vast stage). God, movies had the balls to be grand then, sometimes, today’s rat-a-tat-tat hyperedited busymovies can’t compare.
But at least there’s a new Criterion DVD of Fist in the Pocket….
Apr 27, 2006 - 5:48 pm 4. Charlie (Colorado):“mrbones”, I’d explain to you how pretty much everyone makes mistakes, and that Roger, unlike the new York Times, not just admits it but puts it on the front page with as much emphasis as the original. I would, but putting it into little words and short sentences would take more time and effort than I feel like tonight, so let me just offer you the abbreviated version:
Fuck you.
Apr 27, 2006 - 6:22 pm 5. mrbones:Now, now, Charlie… Where’s the supposed “civility” for which the Right is so famous? I appreciate your attempt at brevity, my boy, but “fuck you” is so vitriolic.
Apr 28, 2006 - 6:53 am 6. Robert Gibney:Amazing. A remembrance of the great Alida Valli descends into pointless partisan snipping.
Apr 28, 2006 - 7:19 amThe NYT obit doesn’t do Valli’s career justice. She worked constantly – almost to the end. In addition to the hundred or so films she also did lots of TV work, including a terrific mini-series of “Piccolo mondo antico”