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In “The Last Station” (which I saw last night), Leo and Sofya Tolstoy are portrayed as Greek Demi-Gods – often foolish, sometimes up to no…
“The Hurt Locker” made off with Academy Award victories for best Director and best Movie. For the first time, a woman (Kathryn Bigelow) won the…I watched Samurai Champloo for the first time, and I immediately noticed how amazing the music was. A blend of downtempo, jazz, with hip-hop influenced…I ran across these short animations by a small studio called "Robot" on myanimelist.net, however, the only thing "anime" about them is that they were…I've watched 3 good movies in the past 3 days, and I attempted to start reviewing them, and nothing substantial came to me. I really…So, I have had animated discussions with people on another forum (mainly women) about strip clubs and whether they really are degrading, considering strippers are…I watched The Century of the Self directed by Adam Curtis recently. It's available on Google Video for free if you're curious.
If ever there…Still in need of escapism....
10) Bauhaus: The Sky's Gone Out
Probably the darkest album ever, and one of the most beautiful. Peter Murphy sings…** Edited out this extremely long and disturbing story from an Abnormal Psych class I took last semester: it basically involved a little girl trapped…I'm writing a new entry for my blog on the top 10 films in 00's (oughts? 2k?) and wanted to hear from y'all, see what… The Manuscripts
Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy is a monumental work that blends cinema, philosophy and music in a seamless whole. Its sheer depth poses a host…Although he had claimed upon its completion that the Three Colours Trilogy would be his final work, Krzysztof Kieślowski was writing (with his long-time collaborator…When Steven Soderbergh's version of Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris opens with the sight of Kris Kelvin sat on his bed, listening to the disembodied sound…M. Night Shyamalan's The Village has aroused vociferous responses from viewers and commentators alike but there have been few detailed studies of the themes and…In 1880 Vincent Van Gogh, 27 years old, decided to become an artist. It was a strange decision, because by that age most people either…All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. — Walter Pater
In 1863 Édouard Manet scandalized the art world by painting a picture of…I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. – Van Gogh
Art legend holds that Vincent Van…"Render Nature by Means of the Cylinder, the Sphere, the Cone, all Placed in Perspective." - Cezanne.
Art historians regard Van Gogh and Cezanne as…Before moving on to discuss Picasso and the main art trends of the 20th century, I thought I'd tackle the vexing, "But is it art?"…In The Principles of Art, first published in 1938, the Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood wrote: "The artist proper is a person who, grappling with…People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree." - Picasso
What more can anyone say about Picasso? Certainly I have…... "cries of children, cries of women, cries of birds, cries of flowers, cries of timbers, and of stones, cries of bricks, cries of furniture,…In earlier essays, I talked about the problem of demarcating art from non-art, and efforts to judge art as either good or bad. All such…Where does one begin with Borges? What meanings, if there is any at all, do we glean from his work? Who is Borges? And how…In his The Possessed (also known as Demons) and other works, Dostoevsky employed an advocatus diaboli device familiar to and used by the Schoolmen and…Bret Easton Ellis’ masterpiece American Psycho is typically described as a satire ("a black-hearted satire on the terrible power of money" said Jenny Turner in…Abstract: Wag the Dog is a film about media manipulation. In the first section of the paper, some relatively unknown "Wag the Dog" cases are…
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