Tag Archives: James Naremore

live at snubbs: looking at kings without crowns

Meet the Fockers. Jewish? Hardly. The idea that Hollywood is Jewish can be seen as somewhat tenuous. That it is the entertainment complex, the mouthpiece of the industrial/financial complex is evident.Its secular, universal aspiring, atheistic or a best gnostic, and … Continue reading

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trial of a soapbox romantic

The problem with the prodigy, the adult prodigy, is the fact of dealing with once being great, and living perpetually in eclipse. Orson Welles was a romantic since birth, a romantic always outside, outside adapting to the narrow and canny … Continue reading

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welles: frozen in the role of prodigy

Every discussion of Citizen Kane, or of any other Welles movie, is sure to bring up his camera sense. In Kane there is the brilliant pseudo newsreel of the great man’s death, the senate investigation scene that is modeled on … Continue reading

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