by Pier Marton | Feb 13, 2012 | Afri, Care, Death, Film, Health, Human Rights, Native, Politics, Racism, Sci/Nat, STL, Wars, Women
To Javon Thompson A Promising Student of mine (at Carnegie Mellon) โ shot and killed at age 18 โ THE INTERRUPTERS played on Frontline (PBS) Tuesday February 13 This interview on Fresh Air (NPR) with its director, Steve James (of โHoop Dreamsโ fame) and the great...
by Pier Marton | Feb 11, 2012 | Antisemitism, Death, Human Rights, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Spectacle, Theater, Wars
MEMRI TV to understand and monitor the complexities (the hell) of the Middle-East From their YouTube channel: http://youtu.be/DBYcSgE7Hl4 http://youtu.be/3t6zy0eEfFs Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in...
by Pier Marton | Feb 11, 2012 | Film, France, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women
First the short film (also) by Guy Nattiv and Erez Tadmor which was developed later into an outstanding feature (describing among other a typical knee-jerk leftist position) โ brilliantly improvised/acted by Lubna Azabal & Liron Levo. Guy Nattivโs site & Erez...
by Pier Marton | Feb 10, 2012 | Asia, Books, Care, Death, Ego, France, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Mystery, Poet, Racism, Software, Spectacle, Teach
โฆ the good and the bad. You are in charge, even if you are dying. To be remembered till the endโฆ โ Samuel Beckett โย Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.โ โI canโt go on, I will go on.โ โ Don Miguel โDonโt Take Anything Personally....
by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Ego, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women
My friend Piniโs mother in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal: Greti was soon banned from school. Some nights, Nazis pounded on the familyโs apartment door, forcing them outside, on hands and knees, with a bucket and brushโฆ โฆ Greti dashed across the streetโฆ A half-hour...
by Pier Marton | Jan 18, 2012 | Antisemitism, Death, Doc, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Media, Politics, Racism, Review, Roma, Shoah, STL, Time, Wars, Women
The outstanding film that was produced in 1948 by Stuart Schulberg (with Pare Lorentz) yet never screened in the US until NOW! A time to remember Whitney Harrisโs work (cf. below). My review: TO LIVE WITH AN OPEN HEART (and eyes/ears) so that today may have a...