Archive for October, 2009
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
NOVEMBERKINDER: THE GOETHE-INSTITUT GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL
November 2009 – some thoughts on Germany East and West
Yes, I am a rampant Germanophile, but it’s my blog![1]
I suspect that somewhere in the German hinterland (if I had to guess, Düsseldorf perhaps) is a secret breeding project where Berlin creates the succeeding generations of ...
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/opinion/16dutton.html?pagewanted=all
When will the insufferable old windbag shut up? Does he actually read what he writes?
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
I can’t help it, I love Christopher Walken. He is a freak, an utterly unique actor, inimitable, a treasure of American cinema. There are very few actors – with the exception of Crispin Glover - who can so comfortably span roles ranging from terrifyingly evil to campy (and often evil), ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Attempts to determine the place of art have, until now, looked for that place either at the peak of the theoretical spirit or in the vicinity of philosophy itself. But if, so far, no satisfactory result has been obtained, might it not be because of the obstinacy of looking too ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Creative New Zealand has recently announced that it will be very much focussing on supporting what it calls “international-ready†(surely that should be “internationally readyâ€) art. This does sound a little like an el-cheapo way of the sort of comprehensive programmes put forth by Germany’s Goethe-Institut, Alliance Français and the ...
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