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between the cracks
Sometimes you hear a far-fetched story and it turns out to be true. Apparently in the late 1960’s during the long reign of Jean Drapeau as Montreal mayor he agreed to meet the mayor of a religious community in Israel … Continue reading
they never die in paradise apparently. just resting, waiting….
It is certainly one of the most enduring archetypes. One that even Jung could not extricate all the wrinkles, folds and complications from…. It’s called the hybridized biography. Imagined conversations of the mothers of famous men who happen to be … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Carl Jung, Chaim Soutine, John Singer Sargent, Marc Chagall, mariana cook, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, natalie david-weil, natalie David-Weill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Marche, Steven Spielberg, valentin de Boulogne, Viktor Frankl
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shutting out the dark area
Holding the traumatic moment; gripping it to prevent it from bounding into the realm of the spectacle. The culture of the spectacle, dazzled, doped and duped by its connection to technology where issues are dealt with as another aspect of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged amy winehouse, Andrew Potter, Bruce Nauman, Claude Monet, eino kyla, F.Scott Fitgerald, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Ellul, Leah McLaren, Lucian Freud, paul mccarthy, Robert Redford, Stephen Marche, the great gatsby
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in search of vigor
An illness of the nerves. It reveals an underlying stress about our fears about the body. A dissociation between body and soul as mutually antagonistic with only the faintest hope of reconciliation.Hypochondria is a very old name for a malady … Continue reading
Celebrity:Somewhere anywhere and points unknown
Somewhere is the new film written and directed by Sophia Coppola. She is considered an artist, though stronger on mood, and atmospherics than story. She has been branded that way, but in fact her story, her narrative is extremely sublime; … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andrew O'Hehir, Farah Nayeri, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Johanna Schneller, John Milton, Laurence Sterne, Leah McLaren, Lord Byron, Marcelline Block, Miriam Bale, Paul Swendsrud, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Scott Foundas, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, Voltaire
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like a brick in their pocket : and now What? …
Why not strive for fame. “The Bitter Ones” say its a need to be envied and that going “viral”- a term which is in itself a euphemism for something that doesn’t exist, is virtual, and has no real meaning- is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Brent Hartinger, Britney Spears, Casey Affleck, Chaplin, Cintra Wilson, Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, James Agee, Joaquin Pheonix, John Cameron Mitchell, Leah McClaren, Martin A. Gardner, Matthew Brady, Michel Houellebecq, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, The Marx Brothers, Tom Gunning
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VIRIDIANA & NEW WORDLY IMPULSES: Free and Imprisoned Old Sicknesses
Luis Bunuel tells us that the comfortable man ( or woman ) , self-concerned, attempting to embrace more comfort, bores us stiff. And what Bunuel is telling us in cinema is what De Tocqueville forecast in “Democracy in America” . … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Allen Josephs, Andre Breton, Bert Cardullo, Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, De Tocqueville, Derek Malcolm, Ezra Pound, Frederico Fellini, Frederico Garcia Lorca, George Orwell, Georges Braque, Gilles Deleuze, Ian Gibson, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Godard, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Leah Churner, Luis Bunuel, Marilyn Ferdinand, Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Silvia Pinal, Stanley Kauffmann, Stephen Marche, T.S. Eliot, Tarkovsky, Umberto Eco
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