Tag Archives: alexander korda

prayers for katarina: under a volcano

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Dave

The psychotic break. An emotional crisis experienced en masse, collectively, that produces the unexpected; freaks of nature where secularized moral codes can be abrogated and shaped to current circumstances. The role of the ego and its defense mechanisms in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alexander korda, arnost lustig, Charlie Chaplin The Great Dictator, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Wilhelm Reich | Leave a comment

Utopia: stories of the days to come

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Dave

Utopia is not exactly the same as the Messianic Kingdom where the wolf dwells with the lamb and the leopard lies down with the kid. Its peaceable, but only through divine intervention. The other Utopia, the secular one, is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, alexander korda, George Orwell, H.G. Wells Men Like Gods, h.g. wells the time machine, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Mercury Theater, Orson Welles War of the Worlds | Leave a comment

politically sophisticated thrillers

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) … Eric Ambler (1909-1998)! British writer Ambler is widely regarded—with Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene—as one of the pioneers of the politically sophisticated (especially espionage) thriller. Ambler published 19 … Continue reading →