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Tag Archives: Ingmar Bergman
DESPAIR OF THE SAINTS: POVERTY Of The POSITIVE IDEAL
Life is a bitch and then you play cards; even with a crappy hand. The type of the card game is a variant on Utopianism and the odds of beating the house are slight indeed. Luis Bunuel startled filmgoers … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bert Cardullo, David Lynch, Derek Malcolm, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Franz Kafka, Frederico Fellini, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Ingmar Bergman, James Stewart, Karl Marx, Kim Novak, Leah Churner, Luis Bunuel, Marilyn Ferdinand, Martin Buber, Marxism, Roger Ebert, Roman Polanski, Salvador dali, Silvia Pinal, Stanley kauffman, Stanley Kauffmann, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, Walter Benjamin
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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
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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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WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO: FEEDING ON THE TRUTH?
Bergman’s “Persona” is a dark a beautiful film that deals ultimately with heroism; an uncommon theme in our time. “As Kelly Oliver writes, alluding to the enigmatic opening sequence with its images of sacrifice, vampirism, crucifixion and death, “in their … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, August Strindberg, Bach, Bibi Andersson, Caravaggio, Carl Jung, Daniel Shaw, Ingmar Bergman, Jeff Pearlman, John William Waterhouse, Kelly Oliver, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Narcissism, Sheila O'Malley, Sigmund Freud, Strindberg, Swedish Cinema
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PARADISE POSTPONED: SHAKIN' ALL OVER
Works like Victor Hugo’s Hernani (1830) and Han d’Islande (1823), Frédéric Soulié’s Les Mémoires du Diableand (1838), Charles Nodier’s La Fée aux Miettes (1832), and indeed Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (1830), all came to typify this emerging trope of Romanticism. Philosopher’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Brian Stonehill, Charles Nodier, Claude-Antoine Coypel, Francesca Brittan, Frederic Souile, Habeneck, Hector Berlioz, Ingmar Bergman, jacques Prevert, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Marcel Carne Children of Paradise, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Marcel Proust, Peter Cowie, Peter Gay, Peter Gay the Naked Heart, Proust, Victor Hugo
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BEWITCHED OF REASON
Vampires of the Vanities, and bonfires of insanity. It was not the medieval world that produced the witchcraft delusion. Surprisingly, it was the age of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. The dark ages were perhaps not all that dark after … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Edward Gibbon, Girolamo Cardono, H.C. Lea, H.C. Lea History of the Inquisition, Ingmar Bergman, Saint Boniface, Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Seventh Seal, The Witches of Eastwick, witchcraft, witches
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