by Pier Marton | Jan 27, 2013 | Art, Ego, France, Highlights, Jewish, Photo
Besides my website about my father, Ervin Marton, is featured right now on the main English Wikipedia page – as part of the… “Did you know?” that Ervin Marton (his Wikipedia entry), an internationally known Hungarian photographer based in...
by Pier Marton | Dec 4, 2012 | France, Humor, Review, Spectacle, STL
My short review: ‘Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be at all.’ André Breton. CAUTION: This film, a delirious RIFF around Hollywood’s subconscious, will not increase your “joie de vivre!” Like with Buñuel and Dali’s unforgettable...
by Pier Marton | Nov 18, 2012 | Afri, Asia, Doc, France, Human Rights, Middle-East, Review, STL
The St. Louis International Film Festival is rounding up; as always an amazing round-up of jewels from all around the world… I wish I could have found the time to write individual longer reviews this year. Below, based on what I was able to watch, my own...
by Pier Marton | Nov 7, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, France, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Middle-East, Review
Lorraine Lévy: I wanted to make a film about openings and hope/Je voulais faire un film d’ouverture, un film d’espoir. My review: I too could say “provocative and moving” as other critics have said, but I would rather not. Sometimes life takes...
by Pier Marton | Oct 30, 2012 | France, Hispanic, History, Humor, Music, Native, Site
Les petits-enfants à Nougaro (de Toulouse). Occitanie, Portugal, Brasil… “Qu’est-ce que vous en pensez vous qu’on est au 21ème siècle, et qu’on entre au troisième millénaire, blah, blah, blah? On s’en fout…” Toulousain...
by Pier Marton | Oct 29, 2012 | Antisemitism, France, History, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
… a sizable section of the European left has been reluctant to take a clear stand when anti-Zionism spills over into anti-Semitism… Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the militant group Hezbollah, famously commented: “If we searched the entire world for a...