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Broke bank: ballads of bonnie and clyde
Its a type of calling. A kind of priesthood. Except the fire and brimstone has been replaced metaphorically by the Biblical intonations of the high priests of economics. They have either found them and dusted them off from a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Griffith, don knotts, federal reserve board, Gov. Rick Perry, Humphrey Bogart, Jim Rickards, John Heartfield, michael oher, Serge Gainsbourg, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud rat man, the blind side movie, W.C. Fields, Walter Benjamin
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witch end of the rope: down home hospitality
Ambiguous marketing or a reluctance to take a stand? …. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): ok, here’s a question: exactly who is this book cover design supposed to appeal to? exactly which side of the argument is being made? I love design … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, D.W. Griffith, Jesse Helms, mandingo, paul e. walsh, Rand paul GOP
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ready, aim, fire: hold the curser till’ you see the white of their eyes
What Hollywood accomplishes best is to repackage. Like transformed food it strips the nutritional qualities into sugar coated and sodium charged calories that create addiction and dependency. The craft, for though there is no art, is a distilling, filtering and … Continue reading
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Tagged D.W. Griffith, Eric Rosenfield, Henry Lowood, Honore Daumier, John Heartfield, John Wayne, Max Beckmann, Nick Turse, Otto Dix, Otto DixGerman Art, Steven Spielberg, Theodor Adorno, Tim Lenoir, Tom Engelhardt, Walter Benjamin
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The Merchant of Venice Plying Big Muddy Waters
Huckleberry Finn is in the public domain.It is unchained and off the perils of indentured labor. Its simply reality television, unfettered by broadcast license and restrictions thrown back at in an untransformed state. This is not hate literature; it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Alonso, Amelia Bassano, Anne Frank, Baudelaire Jones, Beth Schelle, Bobby Seale, Chris Rock, D.W. Griffith, Graeme Dalling, Huckleberry Finn, Huey Newton, Mark Twain, Mike Dyson, Richard Pryor, Samuel Clemens, tabatha Southey, Todd Boyd
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THE BEAST OF THE EAST:MELODRAMA OF MORALS
“Many of Griffith’s features suffer from sententious moralizing, a sense of God speaking to the masses, and outright racism. But Way Down East highlights the greatness of Griffith without having to sit through the Sermon on the Mount or the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A. Nicholas Vardac, Anthony Paul Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, D.W. Griffith Way Down East, David Kehr, David Wark Griffith, Hal Erickson, James Agee, John Steinle, Joseph R. Grismer, Lillian Gish, Lottie Blair Parker, Paul Brenner, Sergei Eisenstein, Tim Dirks, V.I. Pudovkin, Vardac, William A. Brady
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A KINDER & GENTLER NATION?
Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together I’ve got some real estate here in my bag So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s pies And we walked off to look for America Cathy I said … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cinema history, Bert Sommer, D.W. Griffith, D.W. Griffith Way Down East, Dave Kehr, David Wark Griffith, Eric Bentley, Eugene O'Neill, Henri Matisse, John Steinle, Joseph R. Grismer, Lottie Blair Parker, Pablo Picasso, Paul Brenner, Paul Simon, Satie, Stravinsky, William A. Brady
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