by Pier Marton | Oct 8, 2011 | Art, Asia, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Film, Highlights, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, KeyFilm, Mystery, Objects, Poet, Politics, Review, Sound, STL, Teach, Time, Video
– more about non-violent media – PEACE My short review: Are you familiar with Barthes’ “Degree Zero of Writing,” Lévinas’s philosophy of caress* or Ozu’s elliptical cinema? For the viewer of this astounding film these came to...
by Pier Marton | Sep 20, 2011 | Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Native, Politics, Racism, Review, STL, Travel, Wars, Women
My review: Civilians expect the military to do the dirty work for them: send them to HELL… and if they are lucky enough to come back alive, ask them to reintegrate as if nothing happened. 24 courageous veterans connect with their pain to allow us, the so-called...
by Pier Marton | Sep 14, 2011 | Death, Film, France, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Juif, Music, Poet, Politics, Racism, Shoah, STL, Wars
(older review of mine) 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...
by Pier Marton | Sep 5, 2011 | Art, Ego, Film, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Politics, Spectacle, STL, Teach
Defending, once more, the underdog in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Thank you, Bill! BILL MCCLELLAN: A MAN OF THE ARTS ENDURES HARD TIMES “Not so long ago, Pier Marton seemed a picture of success. He taught at Washington University in the film and media studies...
by Pier Marton | Sep 4, 2011 | Art, Death, Film, Health, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Mystery, Poet, Review, STL, Theater
A short review: Restoration “Cracks let the light in” says Leonard Cohen; director Yossi/Joseph Madmony gambled on Sasson Gabay, the venerable Israeli actor, to trust the eloquence of his face to carry that light, and he won! A great many subtleties anchor...
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...