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Oliver Stone's Movie about "W"

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:23:54 GMT

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The two men were born into wealth and were briefly classmates at Yale, but since then, the twain has hardly met. One ducked out of military service, boozed and brawled until he found God, ran a baseball team and turned to politics, ending up as governor of Texas and a two-term president, though the last years, thanks to a disastrous war in Iraq, have been pretty much of a fiasco, with his party losing Congress and his popularity ratings at historic lows.

The other earned medals in Vietnam before emerging as a bigger-than-life Hollywood filmmaker, tackling Big Issues of the day ("Platoon," "Wall Street" and "JFK") before seeing his own career take a downhill slide of its own, the bumps in the road smoothed over with booze and psychedelics.

Oliver Stone has been shooting "W.," his very personal take on the psychological evolution of George W. Bush, the movie everyone in Hollywood is dying to see but no one was willing to fund

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Disintegration of Love in Western Society

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:15:47 GMT

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Clip Source: www.philosophicalsociety.com

Man's happiness today consists in 'having fun.' Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and 'taking in' commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies -- all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones -- and the eternally disappointed ones.

-- Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

"Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments. He (or she) looks at people in a similar way. For the man an attractive girl -- and for the woman an attractive man -- are the prizes they are after. 'Attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market.

Tags: fromm, love, production-consumption ccycle, cultural values, self-other

French Mime Marcel Marceau has passed away

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:30:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

(AP) Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84.

Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower, the world-famous Marceau played the entire range of human emotions onstage for more than 50 years, never uttering a word. Offstage, he was famously chatty. "Never get a mime talking. He won't stop," he once said.

A French Jew, Marceau survived the Holocaust - and also worked with the French Resistance to protect Jewish children.

His biggest inspiration was Charlie Chaplin. Marceau, in turn, inspired countless young performers - Michael Jackson borrowed his famous "moonwalk" from a Marceau sketch, "Walking Against the Wind."

Tags: entertainment, mime, stage, french, emotion

Bio Peek : Ingmar Bergman

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:53:27 GMT

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Clip Source: newsblog.aol.in

Bergman stormed both the Academy Awards ceremonies and world's top film festivals with each of his films year after year. Three of his films won the Oscars for the Best Foreign Films - Virgin Spring in 1961, Through A Glass Darkly in 1962, and Fanny and Alexander in 1984. He was honoured with the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy in 1971. But, ask any Film and Television Institute graduate and he would swear by the magic of Bergman in films like Summer with Monika (1953), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries (1957) Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1973), Autumn Sonata ( 1978). He directed a total of 62 films and 170 plays, giving world cinema actors like Liv Ullman, Max von Sydow.

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RIP: film director Michelangelo Antonioni

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:29:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 2 great directors on the same day

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

RIP: film director Michelangelo Antonioni

The 94-year-old director died in Rome on the same day as Ingmar Bergman:

Tall, cerebral and resolutely serious, Mr. Antonioni harkens back to a time in the middle of the last century when cinema-going was an intellectual pursuit, when purposely opaque passages in famously difficult films spurred long nights of smoky argument at sidewalk cafes, and when fashionable directors like Mr. Antonioni, Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard were chased down the Cannes waterfront by camera-wielding cineastes demanding to know what on earth they meant by their latest outrage.

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Ingmar Bergman

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:35:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: what were you doing when you knew Bergman died?

Clip Source: ronsilliman.blogspot.com

Ingmar Bergman

1918 – 2007

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A great loss.

# posted by Editors : July 30, 2007

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Tarkovsky wiki : join & contribute!

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:50:36 GMT

clipped by: anatolant
clipper's remarks: new addition to Tarkovsky Pages @ http://film.vtheatre.net/tarkovsky.html

Clip Source: tarkovsky.wetpaint.com

Tarkovsky 75
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tarkovsky : time-pressure

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:12:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: deleuzian POV? film.vtheatre.net/tarkovsky.html

Clip Source: www.horschamp.qc.ca

Tarkovsky explains that editing cannot be the dominant structural element of a film, as the protagonists of Soviet montage cinema (Kuleshov and Eisenstein) maintained in the 1920’s. The film image comes into being during shooting, and exists within the frame. As Donato Totaro explains, editing brings together shots which are already filled with time (1992, 24). The function of editing is to organize the time-images into a wave structure inherent to film, that is, the time-pressure wave. Tarkovsky’s concept of time-pressure is like a meteorological time-front that propagates from shot-to-shot and throughout the film, or a cardiopulmonary time-pulse that thrust against the arterial walls of the scenes, bringing temporal oxygenation to the shots and overall meaning to the film-form.

Tags: tarkovsky, film, analysis

blogs'07

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:06:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: anatolant.tumblr.com -- Anatoly's all blogs

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Tags: tarkovsky, cinema, film, russian

Wings of Desire..Wim Wenders a film genius..

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:31:12 GMT

clipped by: TJColatrella
clipper's remarks: I loved this film by Wim Wenders, who also did Paris Texas, and The American Friend with Dennis Hooper, and Ry Cooder's the Bela Vista Social Club the rebirth of Cubano, club music..Wender's short for The PBS Blues series was also genius and on a favorite of mine the great blessed Blind Willie Johnson..

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Tags: wim wenders, film, art, movies, peter falk, ry cooder, love, photography, angels

HOUSE OF 50 HORROR MOVIE REVIEWS

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:21:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.popcultureaddict.com

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) First lets start with one of the finest horror films of the silent era. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" is a very stylistic, surreal German film about a carnival act ran by the mysterious Dr. Caligari. He exhibits a somnambulist (played by a very young Conrad Veidt) who can accurately predict death. Featuring complex and unique sets that could make Salvador Dali jealous, "Dr. Caligari" is one of the eeriest films ever made.

Tags: movies, cinema, horror

16 year-old Sergei Eisenstein's Sketchbook

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:10:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very nice interactive site on Sergei Eisenstein. And by "nice" I mean "totally sweet."

Clip Source: www.fondation-langlois.org

A. Open Sketchbook

Sketchbook 1914
Eisenstein's Early Drawings

It is with great pleasure that the Daniel Langlois Foundation presents an Internet project dedicated to one of Eisenstein's early sketchbooks, dating from 1914 when the artist was 16 years old. The relatively small book (23.9 x 20 cm) contains 150 back-to-back pages, its sketches mainly in ink, with a few watercolours. Each page is accompanied by a critical apparatus by Oksana Bulgakowa, incorporating both text and visual elements. An Eisenstein specialist, Dr. Bulgakowa comments on the sketches and draws from her biography of Eisenstein to help us understand the familial, social and political environment in which he grew up and developed as an artist. She also pulls excerpts from Eisenstein's writings, which provide us with insight into the visionary's thinking and creative approach. The visual material includes a wide variety of documents: drawings, plans, notes, videos and photographs associated with Eisenstein's works; illustrations and drawings by Grandville, Daumier and de Vinci; caricatures; and reproductions of paintings (Giotto, Degas, Goya).

To help you navigate through the site, we recommend that you refer to our user guide, which explains the icons representing the various categories of the critical apparatus and the navigation method. Credits are noted at the end of the sketchbook.

To fully appreciate this project, it is best to use a high-speed Internet connection and recent computer.

However, before plunging into the extraordinary and exuberant world of the young Eisenstein, we invite you to read the introduction by Oksana Bulgakowa.

Tags: art, russia, film, eisenstein

The Most Overrated Movies of All Time (at least in their opinion)

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:48:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mentalfloss.com

Monday, November 27th, 2006

The Most Overrated Movies of All Time

Premiere recently published its list of the 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time and the list is sure to tick some folks off. In fact, most of the flicks on the list are more frequently found on ”Greatest Movies” lists. Here are a few listed:

American Beauty
Clerks
Fantasia
Chariots of Fire
Good Will Hunting
Forrest Gump
A Beautiful Mind
Mystic River
Moonstruck
Easy Rider
Gone with the Wind

Agree? Disagree? What movies would you put on the most overrated list?

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Existentialism 1

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:16:19 GMT

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Clip Source: plato.stanford.edu

Like "rationalism" and "empiricism," "existentialism" is a term that belongs to intellectual history. Its definition is thus to some extent one of historical convenience. The term was explicitly adopted as a self-description by Jean-Paul Sartre, and through the wide dissemination of the postwar literary and philosophical output of Sartre and his associates — notably Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus — existentialism became identified with a cultural movement that flourished in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. Among the major philosophers identified as existentialists (many of whom — for instance Camus and Heidegger — repudiated the label) were Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber in Germany, Jean Wahl and Gabriel Marcel in France, the Spaniards José Ortega y Gasset and Miguel de Unamuno, and the Russians Nicholai Berdyaev and Lev Shestov. The nineteenth century philosophers, Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, came to be seen as precursors of the movement. Existentialism was as much a literary phenomenon as a philosophical one. Sartre's own ideas were and are better known through his fictional works (such as Nausea and No Exit) than through his more purely philosophical ones (such as Being and Nothingness and Critique of Dialectical Reason), and the postwar years found a very diverse coterie of writers and artists linked under the term: retrospectively, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, and Kafka were conscripted; in Paris there were Jean Genet, André Gide, André Malraux, and the expatriate Samuel Beckett; the Norwegian Knut Hamsen and the Romanian Eugene Ionesco belong to the club; artists such as Alberto Giacommeti and even Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning, and filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Ingmar Bergman were understood in existential terms. By the mid 1970s the cultural image of existentialism had become a cliché, parodized in countless books and films by Woody Allen.

Tags: philosophy

History of Cinema by Decade

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:09:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.filmsite.org

The History of Motion Pictures
- By Decade -

Pre-1920s Film History

Early Cinematic Origins, the Infancy of Film

1920s Film History

The Pre-Talkies and Silent Era

1930s Film History

The Talkies, the Growth of the Studios and 'The Golden Age of Hollywood'

1940s Film History

The War and Post-War Years, the Beginnings of Film Noir

1950s Film History

The Cold War and Post-Classical Era, the Era of Epic Films and the Threat of Television

1960s Film History

The End of the Hollywood Studio System, and the Era of Independent, Underground Cinema

1970s Film History

The Last Golden Age of American Cinema (the American "New Wave"), and the Advent of the Block-buster Film

1980s Film History

Teen-Oriented Angst Films, and the Dawn of the Sequel, with More Blockbusters

1990s Film History

The Era of Mainstream Films and Alternative or Independent ("Indie") Cinema; and the Rise of Computer-Generated Films; also the Decade of Remakes, Re-releases, and More Sequels

2000s Films

The New Millenium, an Age of Advanced Special Effects, and the Search for the Perfect Blockbuster

Tags: film history, film, cinema, cinema history