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Tag Archives: Luis Bunuel
no sympathy for the three-legged pig
Saint Francis of Assisi’s love was not limited to birds and beasts. When possible he would throw fresh caught fish back into the water, urging them to not let themselves be taken again. A cicada made its home beside the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brother Juniper, Brother Juniper and Saint Francis, Luis Bunuel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, roberto rossellini, Saint Francis Blessing of the Animals, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis Song of the Creatures, The Flowers of Saint Francis (1950) movie
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unsparing visions of excess
Viridiana, a ferocious imagery that startled movie-goers at its time. The Left ethos that encapsulated everything from Le Chien Andalou ( 1929) , The Young One,The Damned, Stranger in the Room, The Roots, etc. Like Bergman and Fellini this was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bunuel Land Without Bread, Bunuel Viridiana, Chaplin City Lights, Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, Frederico Fellini, Garcia de Quevedo, Ingmar Bergman, Lazarillo de Tormes, Luis Bunuel, Perez Galdos, Salvador dali
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examining the cracks
Play as an irrational pre-cultural activity. Fairytales have profound psychological meanings. Or so though Helen Levitt. In Europe, Mussolini was washing the Italian public through a cinematic industry that would gouge out the real for the most kitschy dog-show nonsense … Continue reading
jackboots and the aura of love: from dada to dachau
Its difficult to ascertain precisely why Salvador Dali seemed attracted to fascism, and drawn to something in the aesthetic, unless at something in less manifest sense, there was a convergence between fascism and eroticism. The eroticization of the fascist existed … Continue reading
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Tagged descharnes, Dorothea Tanning, Georges Bataille, Gilles Néret, Jean Genet, Laura Frost, Leni Riefenstahl, Leonor fini, leonora carrington, Louis Aragon, Luis Bunuel, ruth brandon, Salvador dali, Susan Sontag, Vincente Navarro
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ceremonies of innocence: zesty improvised lives
The more things change, the more they stay the same? Before Helen Levitt and James Agee worked together on the documentary “The Quiet One” , they had planned to collaborate on a book of photographs and text. Levitt took the … Continue reading
JANE AUSTEN: ESSENTIAL AMBIGUITIES OF THE HEART
…and iron butterflies in the soul. Which “Belle du Jour” to rattle the ghosts in the cage of moral sentiments. Maybe men should get off the couch and take the trouble to find out instead of making virtue out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Billie Piper, Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Johnson, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, Edouard Manet, Elizabeth Jenkins, F.R. Leavis, George Lewes, Horace Walpole, Howard Jacobson, Ian Watt, Inger Signun Brodey, Irene Collins, J.S. Clarke, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jon Spence, Judy Dench, Lionel Trilling, Luis Bunuel, Margaret Drabble, Marilyn Butler, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Monteiro Belisa, Nancy Butler Jane Austen, Pamela Mooman, Paula Byrne, R.W. Chapman, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Sonny Liew, Vladimir Nabokov
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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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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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WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
Madness, love and mysticism. Perhaps everything you always wanted to know about Dali, Freud, Psychoanalysis and Pictorial Surrealism. Salvador Dali was immersed in the conquest of the irrational, infinite and likely futile search for the unconscious and its meaning. His … Continue reading
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Tagged Abby Hoffman, Andre Breton, Carl Jung, Dada, Dadaist, Felix Guattari, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Freud, Fugs, Gilles Deleuze, Herman Hesse, Jacques Lacan, Joan Miro, Juan Miro, Lacan, Luis Bunuel, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Max Ernst, miro, R.D. Laing, Richard Huelsenbeck, Roy Behrens, Salvador dali, Siddhartha, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Surrealist Manifesto, Timothy Leary, Wittgenstein
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