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IDEALS THAT LACK COMFORTING POETRY
It was loudly booed. The year was 1960, the place was Cannes and the film was L’Avventura. Two years later it was voted one of the ten best films of al time in an international poll conducted by a British … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Albert Camus, Antonioni, existentialism, film classics, Film history, Jean Paul Sartre, Jim Emerson, L'Avventura, Martin Scrosese, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Samuel Beckett, The Man Who Set Film Free
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MOUSE TRAPS & REALITY FLAPS
”I’m sometimes frightened when I watch his films. Frightened because of some absolute perfection in what he does. This man seems to know not only the magic of all technical means, but also all the most secret strands of human … Continue reading
BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES
Charlie Chaplin represented a vision of laughter, of comedy, that tore away at the veil, a social burka fitted over its explosive and unpredictable composition.A contrast of fast nickelodeons and the slow dimes of higher culture. He enabled a reconnection … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous
Tagged Aristophanes, Bakhtin, Bergson, Brecht, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, David Trotter, Fernand Leger, Film history, Frederic Jameson, Freud, James Agee, Neil Simon, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin, William Paul, Woody Allen
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Charlie Chaplin: Weapon of Mass Creation
Modern Times was Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr’s final silent film and marked the curtain call and definitive farewell to the beloved Little Tramp character he created. It signaled the end of Chaplin’s period where pantomimic art would be the central … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Film history, Mark Jenkins, Modern Times, Paulette Goddard
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