Tag Archives: John Frankenheimer

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Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dave

Soon after he discovered that his acting was terrible, John Frankenheimer decided to become a director as a twenty-year old undergraduate at Williams College. Twelve years later he had directed one hundred twenty-seven television shows and five motion pictures and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Angela Landsbury, Bruce Dern, Burt Lancaster, Daphne du Maurier, Eva Marie Saint, Gene Hackman, Geraldine Page, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Palance, James MacArthur, Jason Robards, John Frankenheimer, karl malden, Laurence Harvey, Lloyd Nolan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Condon, Sir John Gielgund, William Faulkner, William Faulkner Old Man | Leave a comment

the collector: “our Hermann”

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Dave

Or so he was called by the die-hards. Hermann Goering functioned as a leading symbol of all the perversity modernity could bring to bear and a living 3-D demonstration of the power of instrumental reason over our lives. The Nuremberg … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged douglas m. kelley, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Goering, goering art collection, Hannah Arendt, hans makart, Henri Matisse, hermann goering, John Frankenheimer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, lynn h. nicholas, nancy yeide, nazi looted art, paris dealer paul rosenberg, Peter Paul Rubens, robert edsel, The Train 1964, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

A GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY:”Once Crated it Exists as an Ideal”

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dave

John Frankenheimer’s “The Train” is one of the more stranger action pictures one could hope to see. It does spotlight the looting of art by the occupying Germans. “Violence exists as a detail in the industrial landscape, where humans are … Continue reading →