Tag Archives: Michel Carné

farewell to winter light

Ingmar Bergman and god. Antagonistic and at arm’s length and without resolution. A movement between finding security in the idea of god and then followed by severe and chronic bouts of doubt. Maybe its all about a desire for security, … Continue reading

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the republic on the flying trapeze

the relation of Nicolas Sarkozy with high culture has usually been ambivalent, or aggressively indifferent. the “President Bling-Bling” as the snickering and smug detractors of his cultural legacy like to point out, is hardly in the tradition of France’s past. … Continue reading

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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie

The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading

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