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Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mind: The N Game
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Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mind. The blog for Mike Gold, media metaphysician. Laquo; Reality Not Politics. December 06, 2006. I’m trying to figure out why the so-called N-word has become the one word you cannot say anywhere, under any circumstances. So let me ask you this: would people be as upset about Richards’ performance had he merely used a different word? And let me ask you another: is the word nigger worse than (wait for it) chink, spic, cunt, kike, jigaboo, or motherfucker? Richards used the wo...
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Movie Masterworks » Blog Archive » Mamma Roma by Pier Paolo Pasolini 1962
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8220;Art without knowledge is nothing”. Mamma Roma by Pier Paolo Pasolini 1962. June 17th, 2006. 8220;You don’t know yet what an awful place the world can be.”. Pasolini had a deep love for the paintings of the Renaissance masters and his cinematographic style demonstrates it. His mise-en-sceée is always painterly. He emphasizes frontal shots with a shallow depth of field. Backgrounds are carefully selected to set off his characters. Both Mamma Roma and its predecessor, Accattone! No Face for Film.
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Movie Masterworks » The Directors
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8220;Art without knowledge is nothing”. Click director name for IMDB information). Note: The order of this list is highly subjective and reflects only my personal taste in cinema. Cecil B. DeMille. Mail (will not be published) (required). I'm a film buff living in Chicago. I created this space to share films I am passionate about. Please feel welcome to browse the selections. If you have any questions just drop me a line. Cranes Are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov 1957. Stray Dog by Akira Kurosawa 1949.
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Movie Masterworks » Blog Archive » Casablanca by Michael Curtiz 1942
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8220;Art without knowledge is nothing”. Casablanca by Michael Curtiz 1942. June 13th, 2006. Sam: [singing] You must remember this / A kiss is still a kiss / A sigh is just a sigh / The fundamental things apply / As time goes by. The opening scenes dance with comedy; the dialogue combines the cynical with the weary; wisecracks with epigrams. We see that Rick moves easily in a corrupt world. “What is your nationality? 8221; the German Strasser asks him, and he replies, “I’m a drunkard.̶...From a modern...
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8220;Art without knowledge is nothing”. Sunset Blvd. by Billy Wilder 1950. June 8th, 2006. 8220;You see, this is my life! It always will be! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! 8230; All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”. Monica Sullivan, Movie Magazine International. Filed in English Film Reviews. City Lights by Charles Chaplin 1931. June 7th, 2006. 8220;Tomorrow the birds will sing.”. City Lights is a product of the closing days of the silent film era&#...
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8220;Art without knowledge is nothing”. What Is a Foreign Movie Now? By A O. SCOTT - New York Times. But his name is unlikely to be widely recognized either in the United States, where his films have received only brief, limited releases, or in his own country, where he has, at least until “The World,” worked independently of the official state production system, a decision that has kept his films out of most Chinese cinemas. Could you reconcile a taste for Bergman with an enthusiasm for Godard? Except t...
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Movie Masterworks » Blog Archive » The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman 1957
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8220;Art without knowledge is nothing”. The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman 1957. June 9th, 2006. 8220;I met Death today. We are playing chess.”. Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com. I can relate to the knight, Antonius Block, “I want knowledge, not faith, not supposition, but knowledge.” Like Ikiru, the Seventh Seal is one of the great cinematic expressions of Existentialist philosophy. I love this Movie. Filed in Foreign Film Reviews. Mail (will not be published) (required). I'm a film buff living in Chicag...
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Movie Masterworks » Blog Archive » Red Beard by Akira Kurosawa 1965
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8220;Art without knowledge is nothing”. Red Beard by Akira Kurosawa 1965. June 24th, 2006. 8220;You know, a bad doctor can kill you. I won’t kill you, but I might break a couple of arms or legs.”. This is a high quality film, with a touching story and profoundly humanistic themes. The performances are excellent, the cinematography is superb, and the character development outstanding. You shouldn’t let my small number of quibbles with the film (such as length and an overly episodic script) d...I agree wit...
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Movie Masterworks » Blog Archive » Ballad of a Soldier by Grigori Chukhrai 1959
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8220;Art without knowledge is nothing”. Ballad of a Soldier by Grigori Chukhrai 1959. July 14th, 2006. 8220;Strangers bring flowers to his grave.”. We are told at the outset that Alyosha is killed at the front, never to return to his mother, to Shura, or to anyone else again. Ballad of a Soldier’s conclusion strikes a single, clear tone with one of the most poignant of wartime questions what if? What if Alyosha, decent and honorable and deserving of a full life, had not died in the war? I loved Alyosha&#...
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8220;Art without knowledge is nothing”. Cranes Are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov 1957. August 27th, 2006. 8220;We have won, and we shall live not to destroy, but to build a new life! By Scott Renshaw, Apollo Guide. Filed in Foreign Film Reviews. Stray Dog by Akira Kurosawa 1949. July 31st, 2006. 8220;A stray dog becomes a mad dog.”. Murakami’s assumptions about free will (he chose his job while Yusa chose to be a criminal) are challenged by this vivid act. Is Harumi’s possession of the dress really a c...