by Pier Marton | Jun 20, 2011 | Art, Books, Ego, Film, France, Humor, Poet, Review, Spectacle, STL, Time, Travel
Enter Woody Allen’s love letter to Paris written onto a moving postcard that will charm both Parisians and would-be Parisians alike. As the Woody Allen character explores the riddle of time, his light humor and simplicity works, once again, its magic...
by Pier Marton | Jun 17, 2011 | Art, Asia, Death, Eco, Future Tech, Galleries, Humor, Objects, Racism, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Travel
After “Thames Town” near Shanghai, now Austria will be found in China. From Der Spiegel. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | May 30, 2011 | Antisemitism, Art, France, Human Rights, Humor, Idées, Jewish, Juif, Poet, Politics, Shoah, Theater
A friend forwarded me this biography of Marceau: Marcel Marceau was a Holocaust hero. He was born Marcel Mangel on March 22, 1923, in Strasbourg, Alsace. His father Charles, was a kosher butcher who loved the arts. Marcel’s mother Anne née Werzberger, took him to a...
by Pier Marton | May 28, 2011 | Art, Death, Film, KeyFilm, Sci/Nat, Teach, Women
“Exquisitely animated and exceptionally bleak.” The New York Times Her website. I used to screen this film so students could understand: 1. how animation could be a very strong medium 2. how producing an artificial environment could be stronger at times...
by Pier Marton | May 28, 2011 | Art, Books, France, Idées, Poet, Politics, Text, Time
A découvert/Discovered: Soazig Aaron, Robert Antelme, Arrabal, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Samuel Beckett, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Bernhard, Hector Bianciotti, Jorge Luis Borges, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Chalamov, René Char, Cioran, Coetzee,...
by Pier Marton | May 24, 2011 | Art, Galleries, Health, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Spectacle
“And it’s funny. I discovered five years ago that the truth is funny. Not everything that’s funny is true, for sure. But whatever is not funny is not true. That’s why truth has never been revealed, because scientists don’t understand that the end product needs...