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The Turin Horse/A Torinói Ló

February 16, 2012 at 3:52 pm · Filed under Art, Cam, Death, Film, Food, Magyar, Mystery, Now, Review, STL

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 Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” and Bresson’s “Au Hasard Balthazar” – that legacy is quite present, but the punch and grit that Tarr delivers is all his own. Yet for all those so-called “difficult films,” including this one, mention must be made of his longstanding companion in crime, the famous Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, who knows his topic when he challenges all reviews with “You know, the problem is that anything that’s the least bit serious gets bad PR.”
This time again, in a tale that weaves a horse and the wind together as key characters, it is clear that there’s trouble. Is it Hungary, the earth, the land? Where to turn to? What causes insanity or Niezsche’s ten year silence? No answers… or at least nothing you can put in your pocket during the film or afterwards.
Survival must be madness…
2011 Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear Winner -> A-

The US distributor’s website.

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Leni Riefenstahl – “Pretty as a Swastika”

February 2, 2012 at 9:51 am · Filed under A-Semitism, Afri, Art, Books, Cam, Death, Doc, Jewish, Magyar, Native, Photo, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Shoah, Wars, Women

Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s protégée, photographed by Martin Munkacsi, on a shoot that also produced his cover for Time.

New Yorker Magazine: Where There’s a Will – The rise of Leni Riefenstahl by Judith Thurman

… Riefenstahl appeals to her friend and admirer Julius Streicher, the editor of Der Stürmer and the most fanatic anti-Semite in a crowded field (he was hanged for his war crimes in 1946), for help with, as she puts it, the “demands made upon me by the Jew Béla Balázs.” Balázs, Riefenstahl’s dramaturge and co-screenwriter on “The Blue Light,” was an avant-garde film critic who had also adapted Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera” as a screenplay. She expunged his name from the credits so that a judenrein (Jew-free) version of the film could be released, and Balázs, hearing of its success, wrote to her from exile in Moscow to ask for his deferred fee. It was an easy and no doubt gratifying minor task for Streicher to deprive him of it.

… her boosters were the organizers of the first Feminist Film Festival, in Telluride, who, in 1974, touted Riefenstahl as a role model for women directors, impervious to the irony that she had used her singularly privileged role to glorify a cult of violence and misogyny. L. Ron Hubbard briefly collaborated on a remake of “The Blue Light.” Mick Jagger invited her to take his picture with Bianca. Andy Warhol added her to his collection of divas. Madonna, then Jodie Foster, aspired to star in her life story, but Riefenstahl judged neither to be worthy. George Lucas praised her modernity and acknowledged the indebtedness of “Star Wars” to “Triumph of the Will,” particularly, Trimborn notes, in the Caesarean victory celebration that concludes Part IV. And, in 1998, Riefenstahl was one of the guests of honor at Time’s seventy-fifth-anniversary banquet, along with hundreds of other newsmakers from its cover. Unshackled at last from the caption of Munkacsi’s photograph, she received a standing ovation. But perhaps as it died away she heard an echo of Streicher’s paean to her in 1937: “Laugh and go your way, the way of a great calling. Here you have found your heaven and in it you will be eternal.”
…Marcel Ophuls declined her invitation to celebrate her career in a television documentary, so she awarded the job to an unknown German, Ray Müller. He released “The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl.”

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Snapseed App (Free Right Now – Instead of $4.99)

December 31, 2011 at 12:28 am · Filed under Art, Cam, Future Tech, iOS, Now, Photo, Software

iTunes link to one of the MOST elaborate photo apps!
“iPad App of the Year 2011″
but works on the iPhone too

The software’s website.

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on my END (sur ma faim) [updated: to be continued/against stupidity]

December 25, 2011 at 10:51 am · Filed under A-Semitism, Afri, Archi, Art, Asia, Audio, Books, Cam, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, Docu, Eco, Ego, Exp, Film, Food, France, Future Tech, Galleries, Health, Hispa/Latino, History, HRights, Humor, Idées, Ideas, iOS, iPhone, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, KeyFilm, KeyText, M-East, Mac, Magyar, Media, Music, Mystery, Native, Now, Objects, Photo, Podcasts(E), Podcasts(F), Poet, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Review, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Sights, Site, Software, Sound, Sounds, Spectacle, STL, Teach, Tech, TED, Text, Theater, Time, Travel, Uncategorized, Video, Wars, Women

[I can't go on, I will go on. - Samuel Beckett
After more than two years of existence (1740 posts and 37,500 views later), the PM_uoʇɹɐɯ_ɹǝıd blog had stood for what I had found worthy of notice, a sort of time-capsule, more efficient than any tombstone.
I had thought of stopping this, but I will continue]

Those who know me know why I have had to focus on “the stupid topic of stupidity,”
- Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus -
there is so much else in the world but…

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
Az emberi butaság végtelen/Human stupidity is infinite/La bêtise humaine est infinie. Hungarian Saying
La bêtise humaine est la seule chose qui donne une idée de l’infini/Human stupidity is the only thing that gives an idea of the infinite. Ernest Renan
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

I had thought of stopping this…

I had hoped to dislodge some of it (cf. Stephen Crane’s poem about pursuing the horizon)… but (criminal) stupidity exists in every corner - and will continue to do so – from the religious to the secular, from the streets to universities, and within every continent, nation, ethnicity, individual, in women and in men, including myself.

I had thought of stopping this…

Our only hope is kindness and to remain humane towards each other – and not just humans.
Let the so-called animals, the mountains, the trees, the plants, the sky, and everyone, teach us.

I do believe that this time here online IS NOT time passed elsewhere or more directly that:

Life is elsewhere/La vie est ailleurs… Arthur Rimbaud
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. Max Frisch

I remain available for speaking/writing/teaching and all sorts of creative activities to challenge “what is.”

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The Eyes Have It

December 7, 2011 at 9:23 pm · Filed under Cam, Care, Dance, Future Tech, Health, HRights, Idées, Ideas, Media, Sci/Nat, Software, Sound, Spectacle, Tech

“Eye-mouse,” fully interactive eyes…
One more battle won against certain handicaps/accidents!

Senseye
&
Tobii
(who also makes Sono Flex, a fantastic symbols to speech software).
and
6 Ways Eye Tracking Is Changing the Web
(from ReadWriteWeb)

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