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 | 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
– At the Tivoli Theater – “Over 65 million people in the world today have been forcibly displaced from their homes… Refugees worldwide spend an average of 26 years displaced… ” The film never can tell the truth, the truth is always...
by Pier Marton | Feb 3, 2017 | Afri, Doc, Human Rights, Racism, Review, US, Violence
9.jpg#IAMNOTYOURNEGRO Nominated for a 2017 Oscar … because of the bad niggers we were. And we know that, for the perpetuation of this system, we have all been mercilessly brutalized, and have been told nothing but lies, lies about ourselves and our kinsmen and our...
by Pier Marton | Oct 14, 2016 | Antisemitism, Books, Film, Genocide, History, Jewish, Racism, Review, Shoah, Time, Women
My review: No man is an island… Any man’s death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne – Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 1624 War is Peace, Freedom...
by Pier Marton | Apr 14, 2016 | Art, Complexity, Death, Doc, Film, France, History, Ideas, Mystery, Review, STL, Time, Violence, Wars
My Review I try not to tell people something. — Sokurov We eagerly divide up our lives into past, present, future (and history), and act as if the riddle of time, this most perplexing mystery, had been solved. Yet, a few scientists, philosophers, artists, poets,...
by Pier Marton | Nov 11, 2015 | Cancer, Care, Corporations, Death, Doc, Dollars, Eco, Film, Food, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Native, Peace, Popular, Review, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, STL
Three of my favorite films at the 24th Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival TWO OUT OF THREE PLAY TODAY! Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 8:15pm In Transit “… having a good look at the world…” The last of the great direct cinema documentary...