by Pier Marton | Apr 24, 2013 | Books, Film, France, Humor, Idées, Music, Poet, Spectacle
With the release in France of a second film version of L’Écume des Jours – Mood Indigo – by Gondry (cf. below for the 1968 version) the marriage of two French zany authors is a done deal! Boris Vian (writer, poet, musician, singer, translator,...
by Pier Marton | Feb 24, 2013 | Death, Film, Review, Spectacle
After winning tons of awards like Cannes’ Golden Palms, the Cesars, the Oscars… one wonders whether everyone is blind to the fact that Haneke seems to focus on the obscene (what should be ob-scena, off stage?). He seems to delight in subjecting his...
by Pier Marton | Feb 23, 2013 | Antisemitism, Art, Ego, Film, Jewish, Theater, Women
A rare screening of the silent Yiddish film by Eleanor Antin at the Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street (w. support by YIVO and ICP) Sunday February 24th at 2 p.m. with an introduction by J. Hoberman, Village Voice critic/author. [fyi I am in the title role]...
by Pier Marton | Feb 19, 2013 | Docu, Film, Roma, Theater
Danis Tanovic is the maker of the Academy Award winning comedy No Man’s Land and Cirkus Columbia. Now he has the realist drama, An Episode in the life of an Iron Picker, which won the Berlinale 2013 Jury Grand Prize & Best Actor Prize (Grand Prix du Jury...
by Pier Marton | Jan 31, 2013 | Care, Death, Film, Health, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Wars
Clips Below. Shlomi Eldar on Al-Monitor Israeli news broadcasters don’t cry Shlomi Eldar reflects on the live television report that profoundly changed the way he sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By Ayelett Shani Published in Haaretz – 19.01.13 As a...
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2013 | Death, Film, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, KeyFilm, Media, Poet, Politics, Sci/Nat
¡La Memoria Existe! Memory Exists! Yo creo que la memoria tiene fuerza de gravedad. Siempre nos atrae. Los que tienen memoria son capaces de vivir en el frágil tiempo presente. Los que no la tienen, no viven en ninguna parte. P.G. Nostalgia de la Luz I am convinced...