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 “far away” – to places I would not easily travel to (“look-ma no...
by Pier Marton | Feb 21, 2019 | Antisemitism, Doc, Film, Jewish, Juif, Shoah, STL, Women
With playful tenacity… After having played on French Television & Arte, it has been playing every Tuesday, with special guests (cf. below), at Paris’ Latin Quarter movie theater, the St. André des Arts… now it will play at the St. Louis Holocaust...
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 – A PARTICULAR SCOOP – 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 year’s astounding stats? Over...
by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2016 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Doc, Film, Genocide, History, Jewish, Peace, Racism, Religion, Shoah, STL, Violence, Women
— With this update because of another St. Louis screening. — The 2016 St. Louis International Film Festival features 420 films from 72 countries; it is clearly impossible to have seen them all! Yet, by serving on a couple of committees this year, I can easily...
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 | Nov 8, 2015 | Antisemitism, Art, France, Magyar, Racism, Review, Shoah, STL, Time, US, Violence, Women
— Sunday November 8 — 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 Prévert and Paul Grimault (both from Groupe Octobre), with Pierre Brasseur, Fernand Ledoux,...