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...
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...
by Pier Marton | May 24, 2011 | Art, Asia, Ego, Film, Future Tech, Highlights, Human Rights, Politics, Spectacle, STL, Teach, Theater
Spring growth into the summer… – a sampling out of more than fifty students from all over the world – EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | May 1, 2011 | Art, Care, Ego, Exp, Film, Health, Humor, Ideas, Photo, Poet, Popular, STL
On the last day of class I asked my students what they had learned in my beginning level video production course. With almost half of them just Freshmen, I was surprised by their responses – fortune cookie size pearls of wisdom! I had told them jokingly at...
by Pier Marton | Mar 29, 2011 | Antisemitism, Art, Ego, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Shoah, STL
Restricted to the St. Louis University community. Cinema versus History: A Viewing of A Film Unfinished Wednesday, April 6 Time: 7-9 p.m. Location: Carlo Auditorium, Tegeler Hall – St. Louis University My short review of that film. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Mar 29, 2011 | Archi, Art, Eco, Future Tech, Ideas, Mystery, Quotes, STL
Juhani Pallasmaa has written many wonderful books with great illustrations – and one on film and architecture, The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema (out of print but in the WU art library). He is that rare person these days, unafraid to present...