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Tag Archives: Jean-Luc Godard
freeze a caste system
…How to freeze a caste system while professing only the purest democratic principles… To almost anyone who respects the English language for its grace and beauty, its combination of precision and flexibility, the social philosophy of the Structural Linguists seemed … Continue reading
boxing day
Boxing day, or more presciently, with regard to customer traffic, the boxing day riots in China would be a good metaphor for the hoped for hoofing of shoes, boots, snow shoes and mucklucks that could be used as hooves for … Continue reading
imaginary museum
…As the chief curator and guide of the Imaginary Museum, Andre Malraux recalled Toynbee and Spengler. For one thing, he shares their infatuation with the past, their conviction that it can speak to us, that stones have tongues. For another, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andre Malraux, Arnold Toynbee, Clara Malraux, Ernst Gombrich, Germaine Krull, Imaginary Museum Malraux, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Chevasson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Foucault, Oswald Spengler, stieg larsson
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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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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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basic melancholy
At the age of twenty-three Jean Seberg had been “discovered” in the heartland of America, precipitated into the starring roles of two monumental flops, dumped by her famous discoverer-Otto Preminger- and cast into cinematic outer darkness, only to be swept … Continue reading
wild safari park
and so it is. A human game park. How many “things” , animals, are the hunters allowed to bag. The famous line of “cockroaches in a bottle” has now gone green and ecological. PC Green occupation.The bugs have to be … Continue reading
outfits for parker
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Donald Westlake AKA Richard Stark (1933-2008) Well, not quite THAT deep in the Archives, but read on… In 1962, the Brooklyn-born Westlake, as Richard Stark (one of 16 pen … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged costa gravas, darwyn cooke, david mazzucchelli, donald westlake, edgar award winners, eisner awards, frank robbins, jack kirby, Jean-Luc Godard, jesse marinoff reyes, jim thompson, lee marvin, Mel Gibson, milt caniff, neil uyetake, richard stark, robert duvall, the grifters, the mystery writers association, Will Eisner
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