Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, Inspiration, Literature, Movie Reviews, Movies, Psychology, tagged David Lynch, Philosophy, Foreign Films, Film Classics, Film School, Criterion Collection, Ingmar Bergman, Persona, Fanny and Alexander, Swedish Films, Mulholland Drive, August Strindberg, A Dream Play, Dreams, Theater, Robert Schumann, Classical Music, Existentialism on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Anything can happen; all things are possible and plausible. Time and space do not exist: over a minute patch of reality imagination will weave its web and create fresh patterns…”
–August Strindberg, Preface to A Dream Play (1902)
This spring I arrogantly went through my own self taught film school where I explored critically for the [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, History, Inspiration, Movie Reviews, Movies, Psychology, tagged Carl Dreyer, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Catholocism, Criterion Collection, Danish Cinema, Film Classics, Film School, Foreign Films, French Heros, French History, Joan of Arc, Maria Falconetti, Mysticism, Religion, Richard Einhorn, Saint Joan, Saints, Silent Films, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Voices of Light on June 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Re-watching Carl Dreyer’s silent classic, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), was the final piece of my self-taught Spring Film School that started in April with The Third Man and continued in May and June with M, Metropolis, The Big Heat, The 400 Blows, The Innocents, Twelve Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Citizen Kane and finally Dreyer’s film. One of [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, Movie Reviews, Movies, Travel, tagged Adventure, Beethoven, Beethoven's Seventh, Catinca Untaru, Fantasy, Independent Films, Justine Waddell, Karen Haacke, Lee Pace, Seventh Symphony, Silent Films, Stuntmen, Tarsem, Tarsem Singh, The Fall, Vanity Project on June 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
CAPTION: Mountains and water and trees, oh my! And funny costumes, too!
The Stuntman, 3 June 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
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The Fall opens with a disembodied symphony of black and white images done to the tune of Beethoven’s 7th where the beauty is in not fully understanding what [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Orson Welles, Film Classics, Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane, William Randolph Hearst, Ballyhoo, Rosebud, RKO, Mercury Theater, Film School, Criterion Collection on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
This spring I continue to utilize my Netflix queue to take myself to “school” with film classics. Earlier in the month I finally sat down to watch Citizen Kane in its entirety for a critical review. Without further adieu…
CAPTION: Say, Charlie, you gotta name for that sled?
All That Ballyhoo!, 5 May 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, History, Movie Reviews, Movies, Politics, Psychology, tagged Film Classics, Film Noir, Film School, Fritz Lang, German Expressionism, Group Think, Individualism, Jungian Archetypes, M, Nazi Germany, Peter Lorre, Propoganda, Symbolism, Weimar Republic on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
With nothing worthwhile at the cineplex this spring, I’ve been using my Netflix queue to catch up with many of the classics I studied in film class but never watched as a complete whole. Fritz Lang’s M is one of those classics that looks great on your shelf, but you might only pop in the [...]
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Posted in Art, Baseball, History, Inspiration, Sports, Travel, tagged Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, Lake Ostego, Ty Cobb on April 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In honor of the opening week of baseball season, I took a road trip with my brother and a friend up to Cooperstown, NY to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame. It was the first time I had been back since I was a child. Though cold (and rainy on the last day), it was the [...]
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Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Books, Inspiration, Literature, Publishing, tagged Caleb Carr, Dublin, Dubliners, Edgar Allan Poe, Elsie Sheridan, Graham Greene, Ireland, James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut, Matthew Pearl, Novels, Philip Pankov, Short Stories, The Dead, The Poe Shadow, William Faulkner on March 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
CAPTION: Man dies from boredom on Dublin’s Ha’Penny Bridge while reading a very long novel. *Photo courtesy of Philip Pankov (www.philpankov.com) and www.thenocturnes.com.
Kurt Vonnegut once said of novels that “reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody else knows or cares about.”
I couldn’t agree more while I find myself in a laborious relationship with The [...]
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Posted in Art, Arts and Entertainment, Book Reviews, Book to Film Adaptations, Books, Inspiration, Literature, tagged William Faulkner, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Quint Buchholz on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I feel the work of art displayed below, “On the Way, Open Book” by Quint Buchholz accurately displays the mindset I was in this summer while reading and writing…
During this long, hot seemingly endless summer while nursing the early stages of a new novel into being, I also dug deep into the classics for inspiration and went on [...]
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Posted in Art, Arts and Entertainment, Books, Inspiration, Literature, Marketing, The Thief Maker, tagged Andrew Wyeth, Camden, Lancaster County, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia and South Jersey Local Scene, South Carolina on February 12, 2007 | No Comments »
The tumultuous events of The Thief Maker span four decades and speckle the landscape of the East Coast from New York to South Carolina. The novel takes place in “my own backyard”–inspired by locations near where I have lived, visited and studied over the years.
THE REAL:
The House on 22nd and Green Streets in Philadelphia where Felice Morrison, [...]
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