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yellow: jerusalem the golden yellow
Why yellow? The color yellow has long been connected with villainy, cowardice, and jealousy. The color of the traitor and betrayal. The color of the betrayal of Jesus and the later medieval yellow star recycled by the Nazis who did … Continue reading
cain and not fable….
Gresham’s Law: the bad tends to drive out the good… …The Holocaust and Auschwitz. The question continues to haunt us, and the answers still elude us. We will never be able to justify the Holocaust, to rationalize it, to explain … Continue reading
human oh too human
A funny and peculiar war it was. Especially in wartime Vichy Paris which stretched the lexicon of all the imaginative permutations that plumbed the bottom of French culture. The complexities of that particular context were splendidly shrewd and also quite … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article
Tagged Alain Resnais, Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Dreyfus Affair, henri Bergson, jacqueline delubac, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marc Bloch, marcel Ophul, marcel ophuls, Max Jacob, robert brasillach, Sacha Guitry, Sarah Bernhardt
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invading and devouring everything
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) No fake, hipster memoirist (James Frey) or Holocaust experience fabricator (Herman Rosenblatt), but a true writer of substance who penned novelistic memoirs (or memoirish novels) under no uncertain terms—notably … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Alain Resnais, costa gravas, herman rosenblatt, james frey, jesse marinoff reyes, jorge semprun, Joseph Losey, martin olgoter, paul buckley, semprun literature or life, semprun the long voyage, serge alexander stavisky, the autobiography of federico sanchez, yves montand
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spaces of disclosure
Impressions of distances within and distances beyond. When Hiroshima , Mon Amour came out about fifty years ago, the newsreels were full of Eisenhower being warmly greeted in South Korea, a behavior in sharp contrast to the Japanese who were … Continue reading
watering the weeds
The Stavisky scandal. One mans contradictory relationship with truth and death. Yes, the big crooks live on; greedy and cold they get to get swindled another day. Stavisky stood off attacks from the press with bribes, which he called “watering … Continue reading
$$$ from pigale to palace: origins of the hustle
There is always a fascination with the role of the past and how quickly it fades into oblivion. The actors and contexts may change, but there is always an unseen hand, proffering the levers that mechanically set in motion the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged agnes varda, Alain Resnais, anny duperey, Bernard Madoff, clemenceau, Francois Truffaut, jacques demy, Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean-Luc Godard, jorge semprun, Léon Blum, Leon Trotsky, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, serge alexander stavisky
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8 1/2 disruptions of syntax
In Fellini’s 8 1/2 an intellectual laments that the director, Guido, has no central idea, no clear intellectual concept. An English journalist wedges in,”What do you think about the marriage of Marxism and Catholicism?” In 8 1/2 Fellini doesn’t just … Continue reading
TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?
According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Albert Camus, Frederic Fitch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Restall, Homer The Iliad, John Zorn, Ken Kesey, Peter Sellers, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Alpert, Richard Metzger, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Leary, Toshiro Mifune
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