Philosophy
The beat generation of Paris.
"The group was a motley assortment of novelists, sound poets, painters, film-makers, revolutionaries, bohemians, alcoholics, petty criminals, lunatics, under-age girls and self-proclaimed failures."
Letterist International [Wikipedia]
by
Isidore Isou
1951
Film
- Bill Speare Into Prose
"Shakespeare's plays to be retold by novelists" Hogarth, part of Random House publishers, has announced an ambitious international project to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Kealey Rigden 7:00AM BST 27 Jun 2013 The Telegraph...
- Rene Clair's "the Crazy Ray"
Some fun from film maker Rene Clair...The Crazy Ray [Paris Qui Dort] [1927]. Wikipedia... The film is about a mad doctor who uses a magic ray on citizens which causes them to freeze in strange and often embarrassing positions. People who are unaffected...
- Deceased--adolfas Mekas
Adolfas Mekas [center] September 30th, 1925 to May 31st, 2011 I only recall seeing two of his films...Hallelujah the Hills [1963] and the The Brig [1964)]..."A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957....
- Nicolas Lémery And "spiky" Atoms
Nicolas Lémery November 17th, 1645 to June 19th, 1715 An early empiricist. His "corpuscular theory" was sophomoric but inventive. French chemist and pharmacist who prepared a comprehensive dictionary of pharmaceuticals in the Pharmacopée universelle...
- "the Day The Earth Stood Still"--remake
1951 2008 The remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still will have general theatrical release on December 12th. It is difficult to evaluate the film based on the trailer but one can infer, based on the small clip and some cinematic historical regularity,...
Philosophy
Letterisme and the Letterists...a French avant-garde movement
Alain Satie, extrait de ecrit en prose
The beat generation of Paris.
"The group was a motley assortment of novelists, sound poets, painters, film-makers, revolutionaries, bohemians, alcoholics, petty criminals, lunatics, under-age girls and self-proclaimed failures."
Letterist International [Wikipedia]
Traité de bave et d'éternité [Venom & Eternity]
by
Isidore Isou
1951
Film
- Bill Speare Into Prose
"Shakespeare's plays to be retold by novelists" Hogarth, part of Random House publishers, has announced an ambitious international project to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Kealey Rigden 7:00AM BST 27 Jun 2013 The Telegraph...
- Rene Clair's "the Crazy Ray"
Some fun from film maker Rene Clair...The Crazy Ray [Paris Qui Dort] [1927]. Wikipedia... The film is about a mad doctor who uses a magic ray on citizens which causes them to freeze in strange and often embarrassing positions. People who are unaffected...
- Deceased--adolfas Mekas
Adolfas Mekas [center] September 30th, 1925 to May 31st, 2011 I only recall seeing two of his films...Hallelujah the Hills [1963] and the The Brig [1964)]..."A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957....
- Nicolas Lémery And "spiky" Atoms
Nicolas Lémery November 17th, 1645 to June 19th, 1715 An early empiricist. His "corpuscular theory" was sophomoric but inventive. French chemist and pharmacist who prepared a comprehensive dictionary of pharmaceuticals in the Pharmacopée universelle...
- "the Day The Earth Stood Still"--remake
1951 2008 The remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still will have general theatrical release on December 12th. It is difficult to evaluate the film based on the trailer but one can infer, based on the small clip and some cinematic historical regularity,...