by Pier Marton | Oct 6, 2013 | Afri, Care, Eco, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Native, Peace, Review, Theater, Time, Wars
[I had written this review a while back, before the 2011 St. Louis International Film Festival (part of my “SLIFF BUZZ” entries) – apparently the post has disappeared. This film remains an unforgettable tribute to how a healthy society can deal with...
by Pier Marton | May 1, 2013 | Death, Humor, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Spectacle, Theater, US, Wars
… to state in unison that they can’t do much more than smile and laugh… now that the NRA has once more won and that Guantanamo will remain indefinitely open. War relief, comic relief? What is on: the joke is ON, the show is ON, the spectacle goes...
by Pier Marton | Mar 8, 2013 | Art, Death, France, Human Rights, Media, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Sounds, Spectacle, Theater, Travel, Video, Wars
Via Le Monde – une propagande qui ne marche pas pour Al-Assad: L’agence ANNA, basée dans le territoire disputé d’Abkhazie (province de Géorgie dont l’indépendance n’est pas reconnue internationalement) diffuse régulièrement sur Internet...
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 | Feb 9, 2013 | Dance, France, Health, Hispanic, Music, Poet, Spectacle, Theater, Women
An interview with Ana Salazar Himno al amor – Hymne à l’Amour – Hymn to Love (version Flamenco) From Flamenco Live: Born in Cadiz, she studies Classical Spanish Dance in “Las Bayaderas” with Eva Vicente and Flamenco in “Cibayi” with Charo Cruz. She...