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• Rémi Ochlik: 1983-2012 February 23, 2012
  Also killed in Homs A gallery of his photojournalism work on his website An English Wikipedia
  Pier Marton
• Marie Colvin: 1956-2012 February 23, 2012
  Marie Colvin (in Wikipedia) And her last report to the BBC, Channel4, CNN and ITN News -from Homs (after 18 days of shelling). Her final report for the Sunday Times
  Pier Marton
• Apollinaire à travers le temps… February 22, 2012
  Apollinaire lisant son propre poème, Le Pont Mirabeau! Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Et nos amours Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne La joie venait toujours après la peine Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure Les jours s’en vont je demeure Les mains dans les mains restons face à face Tandis que sous Le pont de [...]
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• Science (Friday) To The Rescue! February 19, 2012
  NPR’s Science Friday (Sci-Fi BE is a great app) Be Here Now: Meditation For The Body And Brain An interview w. “Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World” author Mark Williams, an Oxford University clinical psychologist + The Oxford Mindfulness Center & The book’s blog Combating Depression With Meditatio […]
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• The Turin Horse/A Torinói Ló February 16, 2012
  At Webster University Feb. 17, 18 & 19 – 7:30 p.m. My review: Highly celebrated by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Susan Sontag, cinema’s current Homo Hungaricus, Béla Tarr is famous for the rarely screened films “Sátántangó” and “Werckmeister Harmonies.” Jancsó’s long takes and Olmi’s details, here with echoes of Melvill […]
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• Les Enfants Cachés en France de Natalie Zajde February 14, 2012
  Nathalie Zajde dessine le portrait d’une vingtaine de ces enfants cachés, anonymes ou célèbres, comme Boris Cyrulnik, Serge Klarsfeld, Saul Friedländer, André Glucksmann… Elle a aussi publié Enfants de survivants et Guérir de la Shoah.
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• The Interrupters February 13, 2012
  To Javon Thompson A Promising Student of mine (at Carnegie Mellon) - shot and killed at age 18 - THE INTERRUPTERS played on Frontline (PBS) Tuesday February 13 This interview on Fresh Air (NPR) with its director, Steve James (of “Hoop Dreams” fame) and the great Ameena Matthews is a good introduction to the film. [...]
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• MEMRI TV (Middle East Media Research Institute) – A Must February 12, 2012
  MEMRI TV to understand and monitor the complexities (the hell) of the Middle-East From their YouTube channel:
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• The Brain Bleed Blog Grand Opening! February 12, 2012
  Information overflow in one major direction: what happens when everything implodes… I am in good company: not only my father, the photographer-artist Ervin Marton, but Joseph Kessel, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Nusch Éluard, all French Resistance fighters – but they did not make it back.
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• Strangers/Zarim/זרים February 12, 2012
  First the short film (also) by Guy Nattiv and Erez Tadmor which was developed later into an outstanding feature (describing among other a typical knee-jerk leftist position) – brilliantly improvised/acted by Lubna Azabal & Liron Levo. Guy Nattiv’s site & Erez Tadmor’s site
  Pier Marton