Tag Archives: Monsieur Verdoux

down the hatch

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dave

At the bottom of the poisoned cup is a graveyard of broken dreams. Poison has been around seemingly forever. The bible is filled episodes since the Fall of poisonous plants and amateur snake handlers testing their mettle and faith against … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged andre chenier, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, death by poison, death of socrates, edward f. bachner, Jacques-Louis David, John Boydell, Monsieur Verdoux, Orson Welles, rasputin death, Sir Joshua Reynolds, william dowling | Leave a comment

Ambiguities of Modernist Ecstasy

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Dave

”…the one who comes walking is Chaplin who brushes against the world like a slow meteor even when he seems to be at rest; The imaginary landscape that he brings along is the meteor’s aura which gathers here in the … Continue reading →