Tag Archives: Carla Bruni

welcome to the jungle

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Dave

So, they win an award. The public relations of the right-wing agenda in Colombia. What agenda? The neo-liberal economic model, the 1%-99% story that been prevalent over the last generation. Its the primacy of business.Open the highway to the Amazon, … Continue reading →

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sarko for supper: the dinner game

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dave

Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dinner Games. Though in some respects Sarkozy does recall Louis de Funes and the comic posturing, the ideal context in which to place the French leader would be Francois Weber’s Le Diner des Cons. Sarkozy is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged carl theodor dreyer, Carla Bruni, Ernst Lubitsch, francis veber, french elections, ingrid pitt, Moliere, moliere the misanthrope, nikki six motley crue, nikki sixx, nikki sixx this is gonna hurt, Sarkozy, thierry L'hermitte, timothy carlson | Leave a comment

the republic on the flying trapeze

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dave

the relation of Nicolas Sarkozy with high culture has usually been ambivalent, or aggressively indifferent. the “President Bling-Bling” as the snickering and smug detractors of his cultural legacy like to point out, is hardly in the tradition of France’s past. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexandre Trauner, Arielle Dombasle, Carla Bruni, devin friedman, diane deriaz, dombasle crazy horse, henry samuel telegraph, Jean Louis Barrault, Jean Paul Sartre, jerome garcin, jessica reed, jessica reed guardian, Lawrence Durrell, louis du funes, Luc Besson, Michael Kimmelman, Michel Carné, pierre bourdieu, Sarkozy, yann moix | Leave a comment

Lascaux and intimate with the gods:backstage pass only

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Dave

The artists or artists who painted the cave at Lascaux in France deserves nearly all the artistic praise he has received. He, or perhaps she, was both knowledgeable and gifted. On the surface, he appeared to have one distressing weakness, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Carla Bruni, dr. michael rappenglueck, dr. rappengluck, frank edge, gary d. thompson, john j. mcgraw, John Lichfield, Lascaux Cave, peter tompkins, peter tompkins secrets of the great pyramid, Sarkozy, sir j. norman lockyer, wayne herschel, Werner Herzog | Leave a comment

THE MEN WITH A THORN IN THEIR SIDE

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Dave

”… about the boom in political satire in France. On that subject, you might remember how Stéphane Guillon, Sarko’s imitator on France-Inter radio, upset the president with his impertinence.As predicted here, Sarkozy has just made it known that he wants … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andrea Mantegna, Baroque Art, Caravaggio, Cardinal Richelieu, Carla Bruni, Charles Bremner, Claude Lorrain, David Ogg, Desmarets, Didier Porte, Eric Besson, Eric Cantaloup, French Art History, French Literature, French Political Satire, Georges de La Tour, Henry Samuel, Jacques Boulenger, Jacques Callot, Lemercier architect, Machiavelli, Mairet, Martine Aubry, Nicolas Poussin, Philippe de Champaigne, Pierre Corneille, Saint Vincent de Paul, Sarkozy, Simon Vouet, Stephane Guillon | Leave a comment

MIMETIC ART & THE SWEET BLACK ANGELS

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Dave

”Paris est si petit pour les gens gens comme nous qui s’aiment d’un aussi grand amour” ( Children of Paradise ) Children of Paradise was conceived as a film spectaculaire in the fullest sense of the term. It is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Trauner, Antonioni, Arletty, Blowup, Carla Bruni, Edward Turk, eric brightwell, Etienne Decroux, French Cinema, Gilles Deleuze, jacques Prevert, James Agee, Jean Louis Barrault, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Jim Morrison The Doors, Joseph Kosma, Joseph Mankiewicz, Leo Sayer, Lindsay Kemp, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Children of Paradise, Marcel marceau, Marcel Proust, Michelangelo Antonioni, Numbers USA, Numbers USA Roy Beck, Pierre-Francois Lacenaire, Roy Beck, Sarkozy, The Doors, Victor Hugo, www.amoeba.com | Leave a comment

PIPSQUEAKS & POLITICAL GEEKS

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Dave

”New research published in the journal “Evolution and Human Behavior” concluded that short men tend to be more jealous. Why anyone chose to research this topic I have no idea. But what bugs me is the immediate relationship between the … Continue reading →