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absolutely sweet marie
Michael Haneke wins the Palme D’ Or again. Austria. The perplexing, contradictory and often ambiguous battle ground between the liberal enlightenment, the tradition of Vltaire and Diderot and its almost strange complicity in producing a counter-Enlightenment in the person of … Continue reading
vienna: codes unknown
Slavoj Zizek once said the fundamental principle of Freudian psychoanalysis, that of the “discord between the logic of the psychic apparatus and the demands of reality”; Stanley Milgram once termed the area formed between Budapest, Prague and Vienna, the Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Habsburg Empire, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maria Theresa of Austria, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Slavoj Zizek, Stanley Milgram, Wilhelm Reich
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the breaking package
The country that gave us Sigmund Freud, Stanley Milgram and Friedrich Hayek economics.That gave us Josef Fritzl, and Hitler and Viktor Frankl and Wittgenstein. And Ludwig von Mises. And Schubert and Wilhelm Reich. Always an uneasy blend between Eastern and … Continue reading
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Tagged Elfriede Jelenik, Elfriede Jelinek, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Habsburg Empire, Hofburg Palace, Josef Fritzl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Michael Haneke Amour, Michael Haneke Cannes, Prince Khevenhuller-Metsch, Sigmund Freud, Winter Riding School of the Hofburg
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LORENZO Da PONTE: The Wandering Libretto
Lorenzo Da Ponte? Venice, 1763. In a church crowded with worshippers and onlookers, a baptism is about to take place. A bishop presides at the ceremony. Giacomo Casanova, sitting in the crowd, observes the baptism of four Jews with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Holden, Carlos Saura, Charles McGrath, Gerald Mendelsohn, Giacomo Casanova, Jason Anderson, Joan Acocella, Jonathon Keats, Joseph Losey, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Megan Marshall, Michael Haneke, Milos Forman, Paj Sandhu, Peter Shaffer, Rodney Bolt, Samuel Morse, Sheila Hodges, Susan W. Bowen, Vittorio Storaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yves Klein
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TAKE A WALTZ: A Kampf of Bohemian Rhapsodies
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schnitzler, Beethoven, Elfriede Jelinek, Giacomo Puccini, Gilles Deleuze, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Lacan, John Champagne, Jules Wellesley, Karl Lueger, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Leonard Cohen, Maria Van Dijk, Michael Haneke, Richard Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Kubrick, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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PERSONALITY CRISIS: VAMPIRES & INSUPERABLE DISTANCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND POSSIBILITY
“In Persona the stunning sensuous-mouthed Liv Ullmann plays Elizabet Volger, an actress who suddenly, during a performance, gets an overwhelming desire to laugh. (She’s acting in a tragedy, so the laughter seems inappropriate to her) And after she gets the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Fish, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, Bernard Shaw, Bibi Andersson, Bruce Kawin, Bryant Frazer, Buck Theorem, Daniel C. Shaw, Daniel Shaw, David Bordwell, David Lynch, David Thomson, George Bernard Shaw, Holly Hunter, Ingmar Bergman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kelly Oliver, Liv Ullmann, Michael Haneke, Orlan, Robert Boyers, Rumi, Sheila O'Malley, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Jeffries Guardian, Sven Nykvist
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A COUPLE COUGARS:These Cats Are really Gone
Going Rogue in the wild. A tandem of dysfuntional cougars, who escaped the idyllic Cougar Town setting of the wildlife preservation. Harkening to the call of the past and a howl to the more enigmatic qualities of human nature. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex de Toqueville, Cougar Town, Elfriede Jelinek, Elmer Gantry, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Huck Finn, Hungary, Hungary Politics, Jobbik, Jobbik Party, Ken Kesey, Krisztina Morvai, Michael Haneke, Nick Griffin, Sarah Palin, Sinclair Lewis, tabatha Southey
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Dark Stuff For The Near-Normal
A bleak and disturbing style rubbing the coarse threads of obscure and sometimes contradictory and incoherent desires. A somewhat disconcerting and nasty view of human nature that is presented through swift and satirical discourses on a variety of moral and … Continue reading
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