http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Stromboli Posts tagged with 'Stromboli' at MetaFilter. Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:08:07 -0800 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:08:07 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/46279/Yours%2Dvery%2Dtruly%2Dand%2Ddevoted%2DR%2DRossellini <em>Dear Mrs Bergman</em>,</br> <em>... I want you to know how deeply I wish to translate those ideas into images, just to quiet down the turmoil of my brain... Yours very truly and devoted, </em></br> R. Rossellini </br> <a href="http://richardjgibson.blogspot.com/2005/09/roberto-rossellini-writes-to-ingrid.html">Roberto Rossellini writes to Ingrid Bergman</a>. </em></br> The Swedish movie star had written a fan letter to the Italian <a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/rossellini.html">Neorealismo director Roberto Rossellini</a>, expressing her desire to work in one of his films: "If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable in French,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Rossellini"> and who in Italian knows only "ti amo", I am ready to come and make a film with you</a>". </br> This is how he responded -- by writing a part for her in his 1949 film "<a href="http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/ThisMonth/Article/0,,60059%7C60081%7C60080,00.html">Stromboli</a>." It was the beginning of <a href="http://www.cmgww.com/stars/bergman/about/bio3.htm">one of the most famous love stories of the twentieth century</a>. More inside. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.46279 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:08:07 -0800 cinema family letters love marriage neorealismo Stromboli matteo