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 โfar awayโ โ to places I would not easily travel to (โlook-ma no T.S.A.โ): Kurdistan and...
by Pier Marton | Mar 9, 2019 | Art, Complexity, Education, Ego, Film, French, Hispanic, History, Ideas, Mystery, Religion, STL, Uncategorized, Violence
Through Cinema St. Louis & its 11th Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival Saturday, Mar. 9 at 7:30pm with Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff & Delphine Seyrig 1969/101 min. โโโโโ ADDENDUM [Now that the screening is over โ two links to the film] Through your...
by Pier Marton | Feb 21, 2019 | Antisemitism, Doc, Film, Jewish, Juif, Shoah, STL, Women
With playful tenacityโฆ After having played on French Television & Arte, it has been playing every Tuesday, with special guests (cf. below), at Parisโ Latin Quarter movie theater, the St. Andrรฉ des Artsโฆ now it will play at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum &...
by Pier Marton | Nov 11, 2018 | Asia, Complexity, Doc, Eco, Ego, Human Rights, Magyar, Peace, STL, Wars, Women, World
There are two outstanding organizations in St. Louis that I particularly appreciate. One is the International Institute โ I hope to write about them too some day, and help them out too โ and Cinema St. Louis, and more specifically its International Film Festival. Both...
by Pier Marton | Mar 25, 2018 | Books, Death, Ego, Film, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Jewish, STL, Uncategorized, Violence
The Parkland students are saying it too, โNever Againโ โ It is for everyone, enough is enough. โ Previous interview with co-director, Larry Loewinger โ The film is viewable online, HERE. I dedicate this screening to Jan Karski (cf. the bottom of this page) There is...
by Pier Marton | Mar 17, 2018 | Archi, Art, Ego, Film, France, Humor, KeyFilm, Media, Review, STL
Well, not exactlyโฆ but his 1991 Lovers on the Bridge (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf) is playing at Webster as part of the annual Robert Classic French Film Festival! โ An evening with the irreducible, improbable and irreverent Carax (lโirrรฉductible & improbable &...