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’11 SLIFF BUZZ: To Be Heard

by Pier Marton | Aug 30, 2011 | Afri, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Music, Poet, Racism, Review, STL

Short review: Power Writing to create that safe place to be in/out of the hood. A student shouts “Poetry is rehab!” – a teacher inspires students to “pass the test of life… at a very special level, far beyond their subsistence” and hopes “to produce literate, ethical,...

Sarah’s Key/Elle S’Appelait Sarah

by Pier Marton | Jul 26, 2011 | Antisemitism, Death, Film, France, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Racism, Review, Shoah, STL, Women

My short review: Skeletons in the closet! Reality tends not to fit into the comfort we all seek. Every nation struggles through its suppressed history and France, besides its colonialist dreams, has a long and torturous relationship to its Jews. A recent French...

My review: Gainsbourg (Sfar’s film)

by Pier Marton | Jul 12, 2011 | Antisemitism, Art, Ego, France, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Juif, Poet, Politics, Racism, Review, Shoah

Besides the homage to Gainsbourg’s musical talents, this film about one of France most famous singers is, as it should be, made by a connoisseur, a (multi-talented) French Jew, Joann Sfar, who understands what stands behind Gainsbourg’s purchase of the original...

My Short Review of Midnight in Paris

by Pier Marton | Jun 20, 2011 | Art, Books, Ego, Film, France, Humor, Poet, Review, Spectacle, STL, Time, Travel

Enter Woody Allen’s love letter to Paris written onto a moving postcard that will charm both Parisians and would-be Parisians alike. As the Woody Allen character explores the riddle of time, his light humor and simplicity works, once again, its magic –>A+ And two...

Hotel Terminus by Marcel Ophuls

by Pier Marton | Dec 29, 2010 | Antisemitism, Death, Doc, Ego, Film, France, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Juif, KeyFilm, Politics, Racism, Review, Shoah, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

Did you read this article in the NYTimes about the Nazis’ “Safe Haven” in the U.S.? Then you may want to read/see this below. My short review: One of the greatest films on the Holocaust (and beyond). Helps one understand how one conjugates “To Lie and To Deceive...

Beyond the Visible: A Vital Film (w. review)

by Pier Marton | Dec 28, 2010 | Antisemitism, Art, Care, Death, Doc, Ego, Film, Health, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, KeyFilm, Media, Middle-East, Photo, Politics, Racism, Review, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Wars, Women

Yael Hersonski’s An Unfinished Film Had posted a trailer back in August, but this film requires much more attention. My short review: One of the sharpest media literacy lesson to be found: the set-up and staging stink… we are indeed all actors in a terrible movie, but...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus