by Pier Marton | Nov 14, 2013 | Film, Review, STL, World
350+ films, 54 countries, 39 free screenings/events, 100+ filmmakers 75 narrative features, 63 documentary features, 192 shorts 201 screenings/programs The Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival starts today… for the next 10 days. Get your tickets at the...
by Pier Marton | Nov 2, 2013 | Afri, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Education, Food, Galleries, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Media, Mystery, NON, Objects, Peace, Poet, Politics, Racism, Sights, Spectacle, Teach, Text, Time, US, World, Youth
At the edges of the art world and its fetishisation, and banking on it. BETTER OUT THAN IN October 2013 An Artists Residency on the Streets of New York All pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as those done outside. Paul Cézanne Excerpts from...
by Pier Marton | Aug 13, 2013 | Asia, Death, Film, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Peace, Poet, Politics, Popular, Racism, Review, Spectacle, Time, Travel, US, Wars, Women, Youth
10 Questions to Joshua Oppenheimer at University of Indiana (March 2014) – BAFTA 2014 winner & Oscar nominated – “This movie is not gonna leave you until the end of your days,” says Werner Herzog, one of the producers. The filmmaker, Joshua...
by Pier Marton | Jul 20, 2013 | Asia, Cancer, Care, Death, Doc, Film, Food, France, Health, Humor, Mystery, Popular, Sci/Nat, Shoah
English Speakers Please use Google Translate in the right column to translate various articles. At the bottom of this page there is a TEDx Talk in English by Dr Indulal on Ayurveda and Cancer. Finally, the film has enough English to be understood by English speakers...
by Pier Marton | Jul 18, 2013 | Film, Podcasts(E), Review
– not part of my reviews – In parallel to Richard Brody’s column The Front Row… – much richer than a trailer – Get a (free) Weekly Overview of Major Films [available also as a podcast] . – Recent Samplings – Fake,...
by Pier Marton | Jul 13, 2013 | Film, Human Rights, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Review, Site, STL, Wars, Women
[This review, on purpose, tries NOT to reveal much from the plot] From tolerance through empathy, compassion and understanding… a lot of (liberal) words are used to allow “the other side” to remain “other”; the question, though, behind...