by Pier Marton | Mar 17, 2018 | Archi, Art, Ego, Film, France, Humor, KeyFilm, Media, Review, STL
Well, not exactly… but his 1991 Lovers on the Bridge (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf) is playing at Webster as part of the annual Robert Classic French Film Festival! — An evening with the irreducible, improbable and irreverent Carax (l’irréductible & improbable...
by Pier Marton | Mar 29, 2015 | Art, Film, France, French, KeyFilm, Music, Poet, Sound
ADDENDUM One of the most thorough interviews with Robert Bresson by Charles Thomas Samuels HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ALSO “Ni Vu, Ni Connu” a one-hour filmed interview – included on the brilliant Blu-Ray Criterion DVD of A Man Escaped – A Man Escaped...
by Pier Marton | Dec 28, 2014 | Antisemitism, Death, Film, France, Genocide, Jewish, Juif, KeyFilm, Shoah, Time, Women
Simone Kadosche Lagrange who was A8624 in Auschwitz is an Outstanding Girl/Woman! As A Young Girl of Thirteen: Simone LaGrange Remembers Auschwitz TODAY & FREE at 1 p.m. at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center Today Sunday December 28, 2014 It is the...
by Pier Marton | Oct 6, 2013 | Afri, Care, Eco, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Native, Peace, Review, Theater, Time, Wars
[I had written this review a while back, before the 2011 St. Louis International Film Festival (part of my “SLIFF BUZZ” entries) – apparently the post has disappeared. This film remains an unforgettable tribute to how a healthy society can deal with...
by Pier Marton | Aug 13, 2013 | Asia, Death, Film, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Peace, Poet, Politics, Popular, Racism, Review, Spectacle, Time, Travel, US, Wars, Women, Youth
10 Questions to Joshua Oppenheimer at University of Indiana (March 2014) – BAFTA 2014 winner & Oscar nominated – “This movie is not gonna leave you until the end of your days,” says Werner Herzog, one of the producers. The filmmaker, Joshua...
by Pier Marton | Apr 20, 2013 | Asia, Death, Doc, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Politics, Spectacle, US, Wars
2014 Oscar Nominated and BAFTA Best Documentary Winner “If we are to transform Indonesia into the democracy it claims to be, citizens must recognize the terror and repression on which our contemporary history has been built. No film, or any other work of art for that...