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sleeping in comfort: gracious living
Such a disconnect between the bright, optimistic and shiny marketing image of Ikea and the reality of slave labor production; all those earnest and evolved Swedes, post-Bergman’s, meticulously laying the framework for a do-it-yourself assembly post modern aesthetic of cheap … Continue reading
feminine principle: horns of a dilemma
Freud evidently thought the essence of femininity was narcissism and indifference.It was a theory explicitly based on woman’s natural inferiority, that is as ridiculous as it is hypocritical.But, it conformed to the structural,institutional and systematic reasons that still exist today. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, art blog, Christian Schad, Edward Bernays, Fritz Lang, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Gail Dines, Gloria Steinem, harsha walia, heather jarvis, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Lacan, karl hubbuch, Lady Gaga, Margaret Wente, meghan murphy, Otto Dix, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek
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too long in exile: worn out welcome
Brecht in exile. He wrote movie scripts and tried to sell them but, except for his scenario for Hangmen Also Die, Brecht sold nothing. He seems to have persistently missed the fact that a great many of the ideas he … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged anselm kiefer, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, charles laughton, Charlie Chaplin, clifford odets, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth hauptmann, Fritz Lang, georg baselitz, HUAC hearings, jaroslav hacek, John Fuegi, lotte lenya, Peter Lorre
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just lookin’ for a kiss
Is it true that women in the entertainment business are deterred from being funny. From being comic. Is the mixture of being beautiful and funny too combustible a substance to let out of the yard? Or is it because women … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Audrey Hepburn, Berthe Morisot, Betty Friedan, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Hitchens, Dorothy Parker, Feminism, Fran Leibowitz, Fritz Lang, Henry Makow, Jean Renoir, Joan Rivers, Laurel Nakadate, Leah McLaren, Natalie Portman, Nora Ephron, Sarah Bernhardt, sylvia plath, Walter Benjamin
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ROBOT CHRISTMAS: Cyborg Santa
Is this the future? H.G. Wells reviewing Metropolis, 1927: “But Rotwang, the inventor, is making a Robot, apparently without any license from Capek, the original patentee. It is to look and work like a human being, but it is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Van Vechten, Archibald Campion, Ben Rollman, Chi Chi Zhang, Chris Jablonski, Fernando Orellana, Fritz Lang, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Greg Brotherton, H.G. Wells, Karel Capek, Ken Teh, Leonel Moura, Mike Rivamonte, Paul Guinan, Robot Waiters, Robotics, Roland Piquepaille, Thomas Ricker
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ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Does our annoyance over the use of certain words mean we are against their use? Or so it would ostensibly appear. However, our distaste for certain cliche words, deemed annoying,and irritating are also, at some level,gifted with a compelling attraction, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Bernard Orr, Conrad veidt, Dooley Wilson, Dr. Caligari, Ed Goldberg, Fritz Lang, Gaudi, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey Bogart Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman, John Huston, Marist poll, Mary Azzoli, Nathan M. Rose, Patricia Reaney, Peter Lorre
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The Hangman's Charming Son
… a loathful dandy dogged by aesthetic qualities he probably detested within himself. The mood was for moderns. Cinematic narratives based on Germanic supermen stuffed into the economy class sized bodies of everyman, but with an ego remaining mythologically gigantic … Continue reading
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Tagged David Levin, Fritz Lang, Mark Jenkins, Thorstein Veblen
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Slow Dancing With the Hangman
Emotionally frigid and an insensitivity comparing favorably with the Waffen SS, filmmaker Fritz Lang(1890-1976) possessed the necessary psychological baggage to create the ”film noir ” genre of cinema. His conjunction of pathologies and neurosis, fueled by an expansive ego, Lang … Continue reading
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Tagged Freud, Fritz Lang, Mark Jenkins, Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Theodor Adorno, Wagner
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