Tag Archives: Stanley Kubrick

stanley is concerned about Hal

by Art Chantry: important correspondence of critical importance of the day:

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time running in random disorder: lamp lighters

…The possibility then is that if time runs differently in other parts of uor universe, “mind stuff” may not be exempt from its vagaries; time may switch direction in the mind just as it may for positrons and black holes. … Continue reading

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stone genius

by Art Chantry: john carpenter is one of my favorite directors. the guy does some some stinkers, yes. but, like roger corman, he never loses money. he penny-pinches and lowballs and craftily compromises to meet his low low budgets. he … Continue reading

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bombs away: mullah strangelove

So then, just where are they going to drop this thing? (see link at end)…Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Thursday that Moscow does not believe Iran will use a nuclear weapon against Israel. “Thus … Continue reading

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miles of tiles

by Art Chantry: i spent the last week hanging out in one of my favorite cities in the US – Philadelphia. i love that place. it has duchamp, the mutter museum, harry’s occult store, everything NYC has (without all the … Continue reading

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buggles on basing street

by Paul Hamilton ( http://www.bisonics.net ) Trevor Horn makes for a diffident, somewhat baffled front man. Looking like Ronnie Corbett with an ice cream on his head, he engages with the audience like a slightly mad old uncle who’s walked … Continue reading

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being one of the boys

and so it is The Demise of the Guys is one of Philip Zimbardo’s latest crusades, another repainting of his early 1970’s masterpiece  at  Stanford known as the Prison Experiment which had to be halted when “ordinary” male behavior went … Continue reading

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napoleon: romantic muse and not amused

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. So said Dickens. But it was. As Napoleon began his rather blood-soaked, chaotic  and passionate rule of France he met the force of two women , “femmes fatales” … Continue reading

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napoleon and the persecuted pair

The fortunes of both were inextricably bound up with the star of  Napoleon. The image of this persecuted pair lingered in the hearts of his enemies as a romantic ideal. The fact the Napoleon disliked Mme de Stael heartily was … Continue reading

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napoleon: grand alliance of a different kind

The greatest movie never made. That’s actually the title of a new book of images from Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon, or rather the director’s preparations for an ill-fated film on the French emperor. The three hour epic about the life of … Continue reading

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