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The decline of common sense
Common sense is usually said to be sturdy, but in fact it has been faring badly ever since the scientific revolution began. It is plain, common sense declared in those days, that the sun revolves around the earth. Wrong, said … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Common Sense, Copernicus, David Bordwell, David Linfield US Embassy Cairo, Egypt Salafists, Elsa Lanchester, Galileo Galilee, George Orwell, Hekma television channel, Henrik Ibsen, John Farrow, Jonathan Latimer, Mohammed's trial film, Naked City film, Ray Milland, The Big Clock 1948, The Ultras White Knights, US Embassy Cairo, Wesam Abdel-Wareth
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trial of a soapbox romantic
The problem with the prodigy, the adult prodigy, is the fact of dealing with once being great, and living perpetually in eclipse. Orson Welles was a romantic since birth, a romantic always outside, outside adapting to the narrow and canny … Continue reading
welles: frozen in the role of prodigy
Every discussion of Citizen Kane, or of any other Welles movie, is sure to bring up his camera sense. In Kane there is the brilliant pseudo newsreel of the great man’s death, the senate investigation scene that is modeled on … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, David Bordwell, Edward Bernays, H.G. Wells, Ivy Lee, James Naremore, John Houseman, John Huston, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles The Cradle Will Rock, Osron Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Bogdanovitch, William Wyler
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PERSONALITY CRISIS: VAMPIRES & INSUPERABLE DISTANCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND POSSIBILITY
“In Persona the stunning sensuous-mouthed Liv Ullmann plays Elizabet Volger, an actress who suddenly, during a performance, gets an overwhelming desire to laugh. (She’s acting in a tragedy, so the laughter seems inappropriate to her) And after she gets the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alan Fish, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, Bernard Shaw, Bibi Andersson, Bruce Kawin, Bryant Frazer, Buck Theorem, Daniel C. Shaw, Daniel Shaw, David Bordwell, David Lynch, David Thomson, George Bernard Shaw, Holly Hunter, Ingmar Bergman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kelly Oliver, Liv Ullmann, Michael Haneke, Orlan, Robert Boyers, Rumi, Sheila O'Malley, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Jeffries Guardian, Sven Nykvist
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MOUSE TRAPS & REALITY FLAPS
”I’m sometimes frightened when I watch his films. Frightened because of some absolute perfection in what he does. This man seems to know not only the magic of all technical means, but also all the most secret strands of human … Continue reading