by Pier Marton | Feb 24, 2013 | Death, Film, Review, Spectacle
After winning tons of awards like Cannes’ Golden Palms, the Cesars, the Oscars… one wonders whether everyone is blind to the fact that Haneke seems to focus on the obscene (what should be ob-scena, off stage?). He seems to delight in subjecting his...
by Pier Marton | Feb 24, 2013 | Books, Care, Death, Doc, France, Human Rights, Mystery, NON, Teach
Dans son cœur et dans la chair… /In his heart, in his flesh… Cité par lui: On mesure la richesse de l’homme à ce dont ‘il peut se passer. Quoted by him: One measures the richness of a human being through what he/she can live without. Comme si...
by Pier Marton | Feb 23, 2013 | Antisemitism, Art, Ego, Film, Jewish, Theater, Women
A rare screening of the silent Yiddish film by Eleanor Antin at the Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street (w. support by YIVO and ICP) Sunday February 24th at 2 p.m. with an introduction by J. Hoberman, Village Voice critic/author. [fyi I am in the title role]...
by Pier Marton | Feb 19, 2013 | Docu, Film, Roma, Theater
Danis Tanovic is the maker of the Academy Award winning comedy No Man’s Land and Cirkus Columbia. Now he has the realist drama, An Episode in the life of an Iron Picker, which won the Berlinale 2013 Jury Grand Prize & Best Actor Prize (Grand Prix du Jury...
by Pier Marton | Feb 12, 2013 | Afri, France, Human Rights, Poet, Politics
Madame la Ministre de la Justice, Garde des Sceaux, en quelques minutes: Voilà son blog… Elle cite René Char, Paul Ricœur et Léon-Gontran Damas (Nous les gueux/ nous les rien/ nous les peu/ nous les chiens/ nous les maigres/nous les Nègres/ Qu’attendons-nous/...