by Pier Marton | Nov 8, 2019 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Death, Doc, Film, France, Genocide, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Magyar, Politics, Shoah, STL, Wars, Women
Post-Festival Update! [Like all SLIFFs and good cinema, surprises are what makes a good festival, and a good film. Some of the goods came in the shape of two films that sent me โfar awayโ โ to places I would not easily travel to (โlook-ma no T.S.A.โ): Kurdistan and...
by Pier Marton | Nov 11, 2018 | Asia, Complexity, Doc, Eco, Ego, Human Rights, Magyar, Peace, STL, Wars, Women, World
There are two outstanding organizations in St. Louis that I particularly appreciate. One is the International Institute โ I hope to write about them too some day, and help them out too โ and Cinema St. Louis, and more specifically its International Film Festival. Both...
by Pier Marton | Nov 3, 2017 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Doc, Film, Genocide, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Music, Native, Peace, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Site, STL, Time, US, Violence, Women, Youth
ANOTHER SLIFF BUZZ โ Aย PARTICULAR SCOOP โ Like with all of the St. Louis International Film Festivals (SLIFF), the 26th version makes it very easy again to be overwhelmed by the number of films presented. Ready for this yearโs astounding stats? Over 2400 submissions,...
by Pier Marton | Oct 20, 2017 | Action, Afri, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, France, Genocide, Health, Human Rights, Jewish, Magyar, Middle-East, Peace, Politics, Racism, Review, Roma, The Future, Travel, US, Violence, Wars, World
โ At the Tivoli Theater โ โOver 65 million people in the world today have been forcibly displaced from their homesโฆ Refugees worldwide spend an average of 26 years displacedโฆ โ The film never can tell the truth, the truth is always unbearable. Ai Weiwei From the film....
by Pier Marton | Mar 21, 2017 | Doc, Magyar, Racism, Roma, Site, STL, Violence
One must always conjugate the verb to resist in the present tense. โ Lucie Aubrac In 2008 and 2009, Hungarian right-wing extremists committed a series of attacks on members of the Roma community. Six people were killed, including a five-year-old, and another five were...
by Pier Marton | Nov 8, 2015 | Antisemitism, Art, France, Magyar, Racism, Review, Shoah, STL, Time, US, Violence, Women
โ Sunday November 8 โ The St. Louis International Film Festival is outdoing itself again! 12:05 p.m. at the Plaza Frontenac The King and the Mockingbird Dialogues by Jacques Prรฉvert and Paul Grimaultย (both from Groupe Octobre), with Pierre Brasseur, Fernand Ledoux,...