by Pier Marton | Sep 4, 2015 | Genocide, History, Politics, Racism, Review, Spectacle, STL, US, Violence, Wars
Opening at the Plaza Frontenac 11:15 am – 1:40 pm – 4:15 pm – 7 pm – 9:30 pm Listen To Me Brando (trailer, below). For a variety of reasons, I would prefer to keep the focus on Marlon Brando and not on the film. I will let you decide after...
by Pier Marton | Sep 3, 2015 | Asia, Doc, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Politics, Review, Spectacle, STL, Time, US, Violence
The Films’ Websites The Act of Killing & The Look of Silence. Drafthouse (the distributor) – to find out where else to watch these films The Act of Killing & The Look of Silence Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. —...
by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2015 | History, Media, Politics, Review, Site, Spectacle, STL, US
— At Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac — General Showtimes: 11:05 am | 1:15 | 4:15 | 7:20 | 9:45 pm My review: Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That’s voting. — Robert Frost It may be odd to like what disturbs us but it is clear that Best of Enemies is...
by Pier Marton | Nov 29, 2014 | Action, Doc, Genocide, Human Rights, Middle-East, Now, Photo, Politics, Racism, US, Wars, World
From the NYTimes Middle East Syrian’s Photos Spur Outrage, but Not Action By MICHAEL R. GORDON OCT. 31, 2014 WASHINGTON — Wearing a blue hood to shield his identity, a former Syrian police photographer briefed a congressional committee over the summer on the photos he...
by Pier Marton | Nov 24, 2014 | Afri, Death, Human Rights, Media, Racism, Spectacle, US, Video
Clayton MO was cleverly preserved but not Ferguson MO Copyright Pier Marton 2014 I had met briefly with Darryl Pinckney that same afternoon: HERE is what he wrote for the New York Review of Books. “We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will...
by Pier Marton | Sep 22, 2014 | Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Politics, Security, US
Israel is isolated through lack of dialogue… As with Tibetan learning (like the EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...