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a cow still had to die
A cow still had to to be sacrificed to make that leather car seat that adds such prestige to the automobile…. But young people, more than ever are less interested in cars, and more concerned about cleaner, safer and quieter … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Cowlings, bianca mugyenyi, Billy Wilder, Bridge of Weir Leather Company, Burt Reynolds, Lewis Mumford, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, O.J. Simpson Ford Bronco, Reclaim the Streets Group, Sally Field, Steve McQueen, Theodor Adorno, yves engler, Yves Engler Stop Signs
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coffee,cars and the communal experience
Much better than his television series. This is a wrinkle on a what seems a new sort of interview style reality program that takes face to face out of the confines of the studio and into new contexts. Seinfeld’s production … Continue reading
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Tagged alec baldwin, Billy Wilder, Bryan Singer H+, Charlie Rose, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, jerry seinfeld, Larry avid Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, Larry King now Hulu, Larry King Ora TV, Larry King web television, Marc Maron podcast, Orson Welles, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Reliance Entertainment India, Seinfeld Larry Eats a Pancake, Tom Hanks electric city Yahoo, Tom Hanks Playtone, Tom Hanks web television, Walter Benjamin
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moods of modernism… berlin to the bayou
Post war American movies were locked into a pattern that began when Shirley Temple saved Hollywood studios from completely going under and were “rescued” by Morgan and Rockefeller money and then the post WWII era saw the norm being movies … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Hathway, James Agee, Janice Loeb, Lloyd Nolan, Louis de Rochemont, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Flaherty, shirley temple, Sidney Meyer, Sidney Meyers
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ghosts of remembrance: of things past
The docudrama. It was awful as commercial cinema. In fact it was a form of propaganda. But in its own inscrutable way, the newsreel style, the efforts to depict reality and achieve political goals in West Germany through cinema were … Continue reading
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Tagged anselm kiefer, Billy Wilder, Don Siegel, Hanus Burger, Jack L. Warner, John Ford, Josh Waletzky, knox manning, Sandra Schulberg, Saul Elkins, sidney bernstein, Stuart Schulberg, the holocaust, Theodor Geisel, todesmuhlen death mills
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there’s plenty of room at the bottom
From the previous post that brought up Harry Saltzman, one of the originators of developing the social realism genre of film. Of course, Saltzman did not operate in a vacuum, but he had an intuitive sense that connected the north … Continue reading
to pity the poor lawyer
Even back then as a pre-teen, I didn’t need a Hubble telescope to confirm they were pretty sexy. It was before fitness classes, personal trainers and yoga. It was the 1970’s and women were a little roundier and sexier; kind … Continue reading
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Tagged anne consigny, Billy Wilder, carrie fisher, double indemnity 1944, edward g. robinson, fred mcmurray, goldie hawn, Jack Warden, je ne suis pas la pour etre aime movie, Julie Christie, Lee Grant, not there to be loved movie, patrick chesnais, Robert Crumb, stephane brize, Warren Beatty, windsor hotel montreal
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warhol: another green world
Rimbaud:”The poet should make himself a seer by a long, immense, deliberate disorder of all the senses”. The constipated mind of dented cans. An alchemical process of language, which Rimbaud could not have foreseen the ways in which consumer society … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alan kaprow, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Billy Wilder, D.W. Winnicott, Damien Hirst, emmet cole, Guy Debord, Harold Bloom, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Michele C. Cone, Odilon Redon, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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war and conflict: those pauses that refresh
Its the ultimate kitsch product. Coke. All style and form. No substance. Something with multiple layers of meaning exposing a vast fictionality of the object situated in a space between reality and illusion. Kitsch. Both imitative and its negation, kitsch … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Alexandre Trauner, Andy Warhol, Billy Wilder, Clement Greenberg, Courbet, Henry Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, Milan Kundera, Norman Rockwell, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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