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Tag Archives: Frederico Fellini
flaneurs and collectors
A fascination with the banal, the purely mediocre or downright almost instantly obsolescent; the unspectacular and all that is the antithesis of the Society of the Spectacle. An effort to exploit, better still, to redefine and re-perceive the radical potential … Continue reading
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Tagged arlo guthrie, Charles Baudelaire, Franz Hessel, Franz Kafka, Franz Rosenzweig, Frederico Fellini, Gustave Caillebotte, Harold Bloom, Max Horkheimer, occupy wall street, Pete Seeger, Walter Benjamin
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hide and seek: the workingman’s burden
Does it pay never to work a day in the life? Save no money. Have no marketable assets. Yes and no. It does depend on the lifestyle one is accustomed to. It would be pushing “voluntary simplicity” to an extreme … Continue reading
future crock
Italian futurism….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is something I clipped somewhere a while back. No recollection of where it was, or when it was. I don’t know who did this and I don’t know when it was created, or whether … Continue reading
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Tagged art blog, art chantry, Benito Mussolini, corrado cagli, dante baldelli, Donald Trump, enrico prampolini, Filippo Marinetti, Frederico Fellini, Italian Futurist art, Italian Futurists, Madame Pickwick, Mark Vallen, Prampolini, r.a. bertelli, Walter Benjamin
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8 1/2 disruptions of syntax
In Fellini’s 8 1/2 an intellectual laments that the director, Guido, has no central idea, no clear intellectual concept. An English journalist wedges in,”What do you think about the marriage of Marxism and Catholicism?” In 8 1/2 Fellini doesn’t just … Continue reading
wicked gravity and nonreality: fellini version 8.5
Is the idea of having no free will frightening? Fellini’s 8 1/2 is a film filled with unreality: Dreams, daydreams and memories.A daydream believer in a mid-life crisis. It was a final discarding of the stark neorealism that permeated his … Continue reading
eight and a half : memories & the backward walk
Having trouble dealing with reality and fantasy? Are the forces of discontent overwhelming? Can daydreams and memories at least give us clues to the elusive breakthrough gestating within the psyche? Can we find a way back to ourselves? As one … Continue reading
futurism: hygiene for the unwashed
In the parade scene of Fellini’s Amarcord,the director seems to surgically probe at the roots of Italian fascism. The evidence seems to indicate that even strong-armed fascism cannot control the id. In fact, its swollen and pussy ideology and exaggerated … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonfire of the Vanities, Fellini, Fellini Amarcord, Filippo Marinetti, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Frederico Fellini, Futurism, Italian Futurist art, Kerry Bolton, Luigi Russolo, Nataly Goncharova, Steven Heller, Umberto Boccioni, Walter Benjamin
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the future was now: faster faster
There has always been a link, an association, between Italian futurism and different strains of fascism. Ironically, futurism’s desire to overthrow the old and was followed in a parallel manner by the Dadaists and Marcel Duchamp to overturn existing aesthetic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Filippo Marinetti, Frederico Fellini, Italian Fascism, Italian Futurist art, Italian Futurists, Lina Wertmuller Love and Anarchy, Lina Wertmuller Seven Beauties, Luigi Russolo, Marcel Duchamp, Max Horkheimer, Patricia Erens, Prampolini, Theodor Adorno
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free fall: pax americana?
The idea of decadence is hardly novel, in fact it has been carry on luggage since expulsion from the Garden. But what exactly constitutes decadence, and whether we are, in our time suffering its effects is not so easy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Goldsworthy, Alex de Toqueville, Anthony Trollope, Averil Cameron, Edward Gibbon, Emperor Tiberius, Frederico Fellini, Ilya Somin, J.C. Rolfe, Jonah Goldberg, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Spartacus t.v. series, Tom Ridge
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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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