Tag Archives: Don Siegel

wicked gravity: cut ups and downs

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Dave

Love and theft. Plundered, pillaged, worn and shorn. The fragmentary reality that nothing is totally new, it just gets cut up and re-pasted in new and ingenious ways. The background screens and templates remain vitally similar, but the contexts keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Bob Dylan, Don Siegel, Donald Kuspit, Eli Wallach, Eric Lott, Henry Darger, henry timrod, Junichi Saga, Lee Scratch Perry, Leslie Fiedler, Pablo Picasso Guernica, Richard Condon, scott warmuth, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

ghosts of remembrance: of things past

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | 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 | Leave a comment

MIND READERS & THOUGHT FEEDERS:Pleasures of the “Buy” Button

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Dave

Its a lot of money to spend on delectable gourmet bugs even if well spiced and cooked to your instructions. Insects are not considered a scarce or endangered commodity. But, maybe quenching our pangs of hunger by integrating them in … Continue reading →