Tag Archives: James Stewart

Jackie : putting pins in the valley of the dolls

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Dave

A product of her times. Or simply another variant on the white liberal Eastern establishment, make that neo-liberal and what appears to be appallingly ethno-centric and racist, filled with any number of twisted ideas as a defense mechanism in guarding … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Adlai Stevenson, andrew cohen, Billy Wilder, Bob Dylan, Elia Kazan, j.g. ballard, jacqueline kennedy, James Stewart, JFK assassination, joe hyams, katie holmes jacqueline kennedy, Lee Remick, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Luther King, otto preminger, Stephen Sondheim, tom sachs artist, wendy leigh, William Faulkner | Leave a comment

A NON-NARRATIVE GAZE: The Snuff Between The Action

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dave

It is a popular video on the web at the moment; yet it is eerie and creepy since there is an actual murder that takes place off camera about two minutes in. In other words a police officer killed John … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Dominic Holden, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Grace Kelly, Jacques Lacan, James Stewart, John T. Williams, Josh Feit, Keith Ranville, Laura Mulvey, Maurice Blanchot, Norman Bates, Pascal Bonitzer, Seattle police officer Ian Birk, Seattle street artist No Touching Ground, Sofia Coppola, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

DESPAIR OF THE SAINTS: POVERTY Of The POSITIVE IDEAL

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Dave

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 →