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hessel: stuck down gideon’s well
Peculiar man this Stephane Hessel. The man of no fixed address in the spiritual sphere, floating vaguely between strains of Jewish thought and Christianity who grounded himself by welding his soul onto onto the deck of likely the ship of … Continue reading
weddings and babies
The story of Weddings and Babies, Morris Engel’s last feature which was filmed with portable camera and sound equipment, a novel synchronized sight-and-sound- process that was developed by Engel himself, starts off a little lamely, with a woman who wishes … Continue reading
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Tagged Eddy Manson, Francois Truffaut, Francois truffaut "auteur theory", john cassavetes, John Myhers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Scorsese, Morris Engel Lovers and Lollipops, Morris Engel Weddings and Babies, Richard Leacock, ruth orkin, Ruth Orkin and Morris Engel, Viveca Lindfors
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fugitives
The filmography of Morris Engel is brief : three films in about six years and that of Ruth Orkin is even briefer since she collaborated with Engel on only the first two of those films. Still, the husband-and-wife working … Continue reading
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Tagged Cathy Dunn, Edward Steichen, Francois Truffaut, Gerald O'Loughlin, john cassavetes, Lori March, Morris Engel, Morris Engel Lovers and Lollipops, Morrsi Engel The Little Fugitive, Ray Abrashkin, Richie Andrusco, Robbe-Grillet, ruth orkin
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going it alone: solitary wave
What then became called New Wave actually began in the early 1950’s when Morris Engel of New York began producing his own motion pictures with the assistance of his wife, Ruth Orkin, a leading photographer in her own right, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cathy Dunn, Francois Truffaut, french new wave cinema, Gerald O'Loughlin, Jean-Luc Godard, Lori March, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Scorsese, Maysles brothers, Morris Engel, Morris Engle Lovers and Lollipops, ruth orkin
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kane: “auteur theory”
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes : … American cinema’s one-time enfante terrible, and one of Hollywood’s most enigmatic stars—making him one of my all-time favorites—we take a look at some graphic expressions of his most famous film, the European-inflected CITIZEN KANE, … Continue reading
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Tagged Francois Truffaut, Francois truffaut "auteur theory", french new wave cinema, Hedda Hopper, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Howard Hughes, Jean-Luc Godard, jesse marinoff reyes, John Houseman, Joseph Pulitzer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Citizen Kane, Robert McCormick, William Randolph Hearst
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born to be wild
The wild boy of Aveyron inspired the philosophers of the Enlightenment to seek answers to the question, what is the nature of man? To do so, they looked to a deaf mute child found running wild in the forest. In … Continue reading
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Tagged abbe sicard, arakawa and gins, etienne bonnot de condillac, Francois Truffaut, Jean Jacques Rousseau, jean marc gaspard itard, jean-claude auger, linnaeus, maria montessori, michael newton feral children, philippe pinel, Rene Descartes, victor of aveyron, wild boy aveyron, wild children
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$$$ from pigale to palace: origins of the hustle
There is always a fascination with the role of the past and how quickly it fades into oblivion. The actors and contexts may change, but there is always an unseen hand, proffering the levers that mechanically set in motion the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnes varda, Alain Resnais, anny duperey, Bernard Madoff, clemenceau, Francois Truffaut, jacques demy, Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean-Luc Godard, jorge semprun, Léon Blum, Leon Trotsky, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, serge alexander stavisky
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BONFIRE OF THE DIVINITIES
640 A.D. : According to legend, the caliph Omar burned all 200,000 volumes in the library at Alexandria in Egypt. In doing so, he said: “If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God they are useless … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Ward, Christopher Hitchens, David Petraeus, Elias Canetti, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Francois Truffaut, Glenn Beck, Heinrich Heine, Hilary Clinton, Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf, John Lennon, Kat Dibbits, Konrad yakabuski, Martin Luther, Mel Gibson, Pastor Terry Jones, Protestant Reformation, Ray Bradbury, Robert Fulford, Sarah Palin, Savonarola, Steve Bandera, The Beatles, truffaut, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding, Yevgeniy Dubovik
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