“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” (The quote is from Friedrich Nietzsche, but don’t hold that against it.) When it comes to the group of folks living under the same North Macedonian roof in Goran Stolevski’s Housekeeping for Beginners, those same sentiments apply, though we’d amend that it’s a shared animosity toward the world supplies the lubrication and the bonding, while the music that’s bringing them harmony consists of...
- 4/3/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Spoilers follow.
"True Detective: Night Country" is a murder mystery. But the fourth season of the crime anthology series tells a deeper story, with new showrunner Issa López weaving a dense narrative full of symbolism and metaphor. So full of cryptic imagery is this season, that fans of the series will no doubt struggle to keep up with just what it all means, or whether it means anything at all.
Reintroducing elements from season 1 has been a big part of "Night Country," which, early in its run, confirmed it was a direct sequel to the original season. That means we've seen plenty of the ominous spiral symbol, which originated in the series pilot and represented the sinister Carcosa or Yellow King cult. In "Night Country," however, the spiral has played an even bigger role, with López seemingly set to reveal its origins by the end of her season.
But the...
"True Detective: Night Country" is a murder mystery. But the fourth season of the crime anthology series tells a deeper story, with new showrunner Issa López weaving a dense narrative full of symbolism and metaphor. So full of cryptic imagery is this season, that fans of the series will no doubt struggle to keep up with just what it all means, or whether it means anything at all.
Reintroducing elements from season 1 has been a big part of "Night Country," which, early in its run, confirmed it was a direct sequel to the original season. That means we've seen plenty of the ominous spiral symbol, which originated in the series pilot and represented the sinister Carcosa or Yellow King cult. In "Night Country," however, the spiral has played an even bigger role, with López seemingly set to reveal its origins by the end of her season.
But the...
- 2/10/2024
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
Writer, director, and actor José Mojica Marins singlehandedly inaugurated Brazilian horror cinema in 1964 when he released At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul. This surprisingly gruesome gothic concoction introduced unsuspecting audiences to the indelible figure of Coffin Joe, a nefarious undertaker with a black top hat and cape, uncannily long fingernails, and a bloodthirsty life philosophy that’s part Friedrich Nietzsche, part Marquis de Sade. Over the next four decades, Coffin Joe would not only headline his own official trilogy but also turn up as a sometimes secondary character in numerous other films and TV shows, ultimately achieving the status of a national icon often called “the Brazilian Freddy Krueger.”
Arrow Video has assembled 10 of Mojica’s films in their staggeringly appointed new box set Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe. All of these titles have received striking new 4K restorations from original film elements, and Arrow has included many hours of bonus materials,...
Arrow Video has assembled 10 of Mojica’s films in their staggeringly appointed new box set Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe. All of these titles have received striking new 4K restorations from original film elements, and Arrow has included many hours of bonus materials,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
As “Masters of the Air” nears its end, one surviving member of the Air Force’s “Bloody Hundredth” bombing group finds himself standing next to a fireplace, sipping on whiskey, and quoting the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. “Whoever fights monsters should take care not to become a monster himself,” he paraphrases for his fellow flyer, as they prepare to leave the war behind and return to their families. “Because if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes right back at you.”
In the moment, the sentiment is sound enough. Both men have experienced war, up close and personal, and both have been shaped by the harrowing combat all around them. It’s only natural to wonder what they’ll be like when they’re home, when they’re grounded, when the bombs are no longer dropping from the sky. Can they go back to their families, their wives, their kids,...
In the moment, the sentiment is sound enough. Both men have experienced war, up close and personal, and both have been shaped by the harrowing combat all around them. It’s only natural to wonder what they’ll be like when they’re home, when they’re grounded, when the bombs are no longer dropping from the sky. Can they go back to their families, their wives, their kids,...
- 1/24/2024
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
At the end of “Balcony Man,” Nick Cave’s ponderous and playful song about hope, romance, and grief, he sings, “What doesn’t kill you just makes you crazier.” The words are a wry twist on Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous aphorism — but Cave says they’re also an improvement upon it.
“I don’t think Nietzsche’s quote of ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ is remotely true,” he says. “It is bad, unhelpful information that suggests we are somehow weak if we succumb to our griefs. It lacks compassion.
“I don’t think Nietzsche’s quote of ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ is remotely true,” he says. “It is bad, unhelpful information that suggests we are somehow weak if we succumb to our griefs. It lacks compassion.
- 9/26/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Musician Grimes posted a funny shot of her daughter with Elon Musk making an… interesting choice in first reading materials.
Most people get their kids started with something like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but Grimes went right to German philosophy showing her nine-month-old daughter Exa Dark Sideræl over an iPad showing the title page of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.
Grimes also joked that her daughter “loves Boris Brejcha.” This is a pretty funny bit, but hopefully Grimes has more people to debate nihilism and philosophy with than her infant child. But hey, maybe raising a daughter in the example of Nietzsche will bring us the next great thinker of that generation.
Exa (also nicknamed Y) is Grimes’ second child with Musk. They had a son who they infamously named X Æ A-12, and if Grimes’ parenting style is to be believed he probably has very well-formed opinions...
Most people get their kids started with something like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but Grimes went right to German philosophy showing her nine-month-old daughter Exa Dark Sideræl over an iPad showing the title page of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.
Grimes also joked that her daughter “loves Boris Brejcha.” This is a pretty funny bit, but hopefully Grimes has more people to debate nihilism and philosophy with than her infant child. But hey, maybe raising a daughter in the example of Nietzsche will bring us the next great thinker of that generation.
Exa (also nicknamed Y) is Grimes’ second child with Musk. They had a son who they infamously named X Æ A-12, and if Grimes’ parenting style is to be believed he probably has very well-formed opinions...
- 9/23/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
Earlier this year, Grimes gave a candid interview to Vanity Fair and subsequently revealed that she and Tesla/Space-x founder Elon Musk had broken up, while also welcoming their second child together.
That child — a daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk — was born via surrogate, joining the ex-couple’s first child together, son X Æ A-Xii (called X).
On Sunday, Sept. 18, the Canadian musician took to social media to share a rare photo of her daughter, nicknamed Y, now 9 months old.
Read More: Elon Musk Responds To Reports Suggesting He Secretly Had Twins With One Of His Execs Weeks Before He & Grimes Welcomed 2nd Child Via Surrogate
In the pic, the baby is wearing a pink headband, listening to music while placing her hand atop a copy of The Birth of Tragedy by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
“My daughter is dancing to techno over this copy of the birth of...
That child — a daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk — was born via surrogate, joining the ex-couple’s first child together, son X Æ A-Xii (called X).
On Sunday, Sept. 18, the Canadian musician took to social media to share a rare photo of her daughter, nicknamed Y, now 9 months old.
Read More: Elon Musk Responds To Reports Suggesting He Secretly Had Twins With One Of His Execs Weeks Before He & Grimes Welcomed 2nd Child Via Surrogate
In the pic, the baby is wearing a pink headband, listening to music while placing her hand atop a copy of The Birth of Tragedy by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
“My daughter is dancing to techno over this copy of the birth of...
- 9/20/2022
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
“Moonage Daydream” was reviewed by TheWrap out of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
The David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream” begins with a quote in which Bowie talks about Friedrich Nietzsche’s late 19th-century proclamation that God is dead and that humans must become gods themselves. It’s an appropriate enough opening, considering that Bowie’s most famous character, Ziggy Stardust, flirted with Nietzsche-style notions of man and Superman.
But a more telling quote comes later in Brett Morgen’s film, when Bowie talks about his fascination with “an artistic language that deals with fragments and chaos.” Because if there was ever a documentary that embraces the idea of fragments and chaos as organizing principles, it’s “Moonage Daydream,” which abandons all thought of straightforward narrative in favor of an immersive and purposefully mysterious and chaotic Bowie experience.
Or is “purposefully chaotic” a contradiction in terms? Regardless, “Moonage Daydream” is a bracing,...
The David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream” begins with a quote in which Bowie talks about Friedrich Nietzsche’s late 19th-century proclamation that God is dead and that humans must become gods themselves. It’s an appropriate enough opening, considering that Bowie’s most famous character, Ziggy Stardust, flirted with Nietzsche-style notions of man and Superman.
But a more telling quote comes later in Brett Morgen’s film, when Bowie talks about his fascination with “an artistic language that deals with fragments and chaos.” Because if there was ever a documentary that embraces the idea of fragments and chaos as organizing principles, it’s “Moonage Daydream,” which abandons all thought of straightforward narrative in favor of an immersive and purposefully mysterious and chaotic Bowie experience.
Or is “purposefully chaotic” a contradiction in terms? Regardless, “Moonage Daydream” is a bracing,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
A torrid encounter between a troubled youth and the wife of the village priest is at the center of Octav Chelaru’s “A Higher Law,” which bowed at the Thessaloniki Film Festival last fall and will have its domestic premiere in the main competition at the Transilvania Film Festival.
Inspired by true events, the film is a powerful exploration of religious dogma that raises larger questions about the nature of freedom and faith. The feature debut of Chelaru, a self-taught director whose previous short films, “Black Clothes” and “The Parallel State,” premiered in the Leopards of Tomorrow competition at the Locarno Film Festival, it’s produced by Radu Stancu of Bucharest-based deFilm Production, in co-production with 42film and Eed Productions.
“A Higher Law” stars Mălina Manovici as Ecaterina, a religion teacher at the local high school and the frustrated wife of the village priest (Alexandru Papadopol). Hemmed in by her...
Inspired by true events, the film is a powerful exploration of religious dogma that raises larger questions about the nature of freedom and faith. The feature debut of Chelaru, a self-taught director whose previous short films, “Black Clothes” and “The Parallel State,” premiered in the Leopards of Tomorrow competition at the Locarno Film Festival, it’s produced by Radu Stancu of Bucharest-based deFilm Production, in co-production with 42film and Eed Productions.
“A Higher Law” stars Mălina Manovici as Ecaterina, a religion teacher at the local high school and the frustrated wife of the village priest (Alexandru Papadopol). Hemmed in by her...
- 6/16/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
“Moonage Daydream” feels, first and foremost, like a montage of media criticism encompassing the entire 20th century, all of it laser-focused through a single pinhole: the dynamic David Bowie. , the documentary by Brett Morgen (“Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck”) is about feeling your way through a chaotic world with Ziggy Stardust as your anchor. It’s a fitting encapsulation of the many “he taught me it was Ok to be weird” sentiments in the wake of Bowie’s death. But despite the quasi-religiousness of such refrains, the film by no means avoids painting the late pop icon as distinctly human, whether through his insecurities, or the way his perspective on love would eventually evolve.
The doc features a treasure trove of archival footage and zero contemporary talking heads. It is immediately positioned as an exploration of Bowie’s rise to global fame in the early ’70s, told from the perspective of that same era,...
The doc features a treasure trove of archival footage and zero contemporary talking heads. It is immediately positioned as an exploration of Bowie’s rise to global fame in the early ’70s, told from the perspective of that same era,...
- 5/24/2022
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Indiewire
Abel Ferrara on Willem Dafoe in Siberia and getting help from dreams: “We definitely did … Absolutely. Willem, too.”
In the third instalment of my conversation with Abel Ferrara from last summer, he opens up on positive practice, the role of Willem Dafoe’s family in Siberia, the huskies, the Magician Simon McBurney, fear tales, and the collected memory of the world.
Abel Ferrara with Anne-Katrin Titze on the Brothers Grimm and fear tales: “These kind of basic stories just ride across. It’s a collected memory of the world.”
Like a fairy-tale villain, Clint (Willem Dafoe) falls from the darkness of a cliff, confers with a Magician (Simon McBurney) about the inferiority of the black arts, and listens to what a fish in a pan has to say. “You stuck yourself at the end of the universe and you can’t see your selfishness, arrogance, and above all, ignorance,” Clint is being told.
In the third instalment of my conversation with Abel Ferrara from last summer, he opens up on positive practice, the role of Willem Dafoe’s family in Siberia, the huskies, the Magician Simon McBurney, fear tales, and the collected memory of the world.
Abel Ferrara with Anne-Katrin Titze on the Brothers Grimm and fear tales: “These kind of basic stories just ride across. It’s a collected memory of the world.”
Like a fairy-tale villain, Clint (Willem Dafoe) falls from the darkness of a cliff, confers with a Magician (Simon McBurney) about the inferiority of the black arts, and listens to what a fish in a pan has to say. “You stuck yourself at the end of the universe and you can’t see your selfishness, arrogance, and above all, ignorance,” Clint is being told.
- 4/12/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Warning: This review will discuss the writings of dead European philosophers like Albert Camus and Friedrich Nietzsche and Voltaire and Søren Kierkegaard, but the author assures you that these comparisons are apt
Would it be inappropriate to refer to Directed by Dan Kwan's and Daniel Scheinert's "Everything Everywhere All at Once" as a manifesto for a new generation? "Everything"'s ambitions are nothing short of confronting a decade of stale, withered hope and suggesting — while rocketing like a hamster, shot from a leaf-blower, straight through an exploding Wham-o Toys factory, and directly into the brain — that the only possible option is radical...
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Would it be inappropriate to refer to Directed by Dan Kwan's and Daniel Scheinert's "Everything Everywhere All at Once" as a manifesto for a new generation? "Everything"'s ambitions are nothing short of confronting a decade of stale, withered hope and suggesting — while rocketing like a hamster, shot from a leaf-blower, straight through an exploding Wham-o Toys factory, and directly into the brain — that the only possible option is radical...
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- 3/28/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Two-time Academy-award nominated Norwegian actor Liv Ullmann, Ane Dahl Torp and model-turned actor Elsa Brisinger, have been cast in the forthcoming Swedish dark fable “The Nix.”
The eerie pic anchored in Scandinavian mythology was pitched on Wednesday at Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production Market by rising Swedish talent Niclas Gillis, multi-awarded for his US-set short pics “The Cave” and “Hold Me Down,” the latter winning Best Short Film at Harlem Int’l Film Festival.
“The Nix” is being produced by Nordic Factory Film Sweden’s Helene Granqvist (“Granny’s Dancing on the Table”), president of Wift, and executive produced by Michael Huffington, former U.S. congressman, philanthropist and film producer, attached earlier to “Hold Me Down.” Non-Stop Entertainment serves as co-producer and distributor for the Nordics and Baltics.
Set in Dalecarlia, Sweden in 1868, a year of famine, the female-driven pic is an elevated horror about the Nordic ancient spirit of the woods,...
The eerie pic anchored in Scandinavian mythology was pitched on Wednesday at Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production Market by rising Swedish talent Niclas Gillis, multi-awarded for his US-set short pics “The Cave” and “Hold Me Down,” the latter winning Best Short Film at Harlem Int’l Film Festival.
“The Nix” is being produced by Nordic Factory Film Sweden’s Helene Granqvist (“Granny’s Dancing on the Table”), president of Wift, and executive produced by Michael Huffington, former U.S. congressman, philanthropist and film producer, attached earlier to “Hold Me Down.” Non-Stop Entertainment serves as co-producer and distributor for the Nordics and Baltics.
Set in Dalecarlia, Sweden in 1868, a year of famine, the female-driven pic is an elevated horror about the Nordic ancient spirit of the woods,...
- 8/27/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
For four minutes of curator Sam Abbas’ 58-minute collection of docushorts from several European and American cinematographers, the camera sits on wrinkled bed sheets. A piano plays, with a softness that encompasses the meditative nature of Erēmīta (Anthologies). With more background knowledge, Erēmīta should grow in one’s estimation. All proceeds will go to Amnesty International. Each filmmaker had final cut on their short, and without much of a prompt besides the idea to use a cell phone to film, the mini-movies tell pandemic stories in diverse ways, to varying results.
Combining work from cinematographers with wider filmographies like Ashley Connor and Alexis Zabé (The Florida Project) with director Abel Ferrara’s go-to cameraman Stefano Falivene and others like Antoine Héberlé and Soledad Rodríguez, Abbas organizes a reflective, pensive hour of cinema. The documentaries range from a closer look––with interviews––at those living on the Venice Boardwalk (Zabé’s...
Combining work from cinematographers with wider filmographies like Ashley Connor and Alexis Zabé (The Florida Project) with director Abel Ferrara’s go-to cameraman Stefano Falivene and others like Antoine Héberlé and Soledad Rodríguez, Abbas organizes a reflective, pensive hour of cinema. The documentaries range from a closer look––with interviews––at those living on the Venice Boardwalk (Zabé’s...
- 2/26/2021
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
“There is no theme. Film whatever you want, however you want, with whomever you want.” This is the message that Egyptian filmmaker Sam Abbas sent to his favorite cinematographers as an invitation to contribute to the new film Erēmīta (Anthologies). Directors of photography from five countries––USA, France, Argentina, Italy, and the UK––answered the call and today we’re pleased to debut the exclusive trailer for the anthology project.
Featuring contributions from Abbas (Alia’s Birth, Marie, The Wedding), Alexis Zabe (The Florida Project, Silent Light, Post Tenebras Lux), Antoine Héberlé (A Son, My Favourite Fabric, GriGris), Ashley Connor (Madeline’s Madeline, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Death of Dick Long), Soledad Rodríguez (Pendular, Maternal, The Student), Stefano Falivene (Siberia, Pasolini, Mary), the zero-budget production will now get a release next month on VOD and Virtual Cinemas with all profits going entirely to a charity the team will choose.
Featuring contributions from Abbas (Alia’s Birth, Marie, The Wedding), Alexis Zabe (The Florida Project, Silent Light, Post Tenebras Lux), Antoine Héberlé (A Son, My Favourite Fabric, GriGris), Ashley Connor (Madeline’s Madeline, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Death of Dick Long), Soledad Rodríguez (Pendular, Maternal, The Student), Stefano Falivene (Siberia, Pasolini, Mary), the zero-budget production will now get a release next month on VOD and Virtual Cinemas with all profits going entirely to a charity the team will choose.
- 1/25/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Taste the treacle as Nicole Kidman’s Broadway liberals rebuke a rural high school – and learn a few things about themselves
Like High School Musical on some sort of absinthe/Xanax cocktail, The Prom is an outrageous work of steroidal show tune madness, directed by the dark master himself, Ryan “Glee” Murphy, who is to jazz-hands musical theatre what Nancy Meyers is to upscale romcom or Friedrich Nietzsche to classical philology.
Meryl Streep and James Corden play Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman, two fading Broadway stars in trouble after their latest show closes ignominiously; it is called Eleanor!, a misjudged musical version of the life of Eleanor Roosevelt with Dee Dee in the title role and Barry as Franklin D Roosevelt. Barry also has financial difficulties (“I had to declare bankruptcy after my self-produced Notes on a Scandal”). After unhelpful press notices turn their opening night party at Sardi’s into a wake,...
Like High School Musical on some sort of absinthe/Xanax cocktail, The Prom is an outrageous work of steroidal show tune madness, directed by the dark master himself, Ryan “Glee” Murphy, who is to jazz-hands musical theatre what Nancy Meyers is to upscale romcom or Friedrich Nietzsche to classical philology.
Meryl Streep and James Corden play Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman, two fading Broadway stars in trouble after their latest show closes ignominiously; it is called Eleanor!, a misjudged musical version of the life of Eleanor Roosevelt with Dee Dee in the title role and Barry as Franklin D Roosevelt. Barry also has financial difficulties (“I had to declare bankruptcy after my self-produced Notes on a Scandal”). After unhelpful press notices turn their opening night party at Sardi’s into a wake,...
- 12/1/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Moneychanger (Así Habló El Cambista) director Federico Veiroj with Anne-Katrin Titze on Alain Delon in Monsieur Klein: "You see all the ambiguity of the time inside his character. That's something that was in fact a reference for me…" Photo: Jared Chambers
Uruguay’s Oscar submission The Moneychanger (Así Habló El Cambista), directed by Federico Veiroj and co-written with Arauco Hernández Holz and Martín Mauregui is based on Juan Enrique Gruber’s novel Thus Spoke The Moneychanger and stars Daniel Hendler, Dolores Fonzi, Luis Machín, and Benjamín Vicuña with Germán de Silva (Pablo Giorgelli’s Las Acacias), Gabriel Perez, and David Roizner Selanikio.
Schweinsteiger (Luis Machín) with Humberto Brause (Daniel Hendler)
During the 57th New York Film Festival, Federico Veiroj joined me for a conversation that led to a discussion of the production design by Pablo Maestre Galli, the editing by Fernando Epstein and Fernando Franco, the fashion of the Fifties,...
Uruguay’s Oscar submission The Moneychanger (Así Habló El Cambista), directed by Federico Veiroj and co-written with Arauco Hernández Holz and Martín Mauregui is based on Juan Enrique Gruber’s novel Thus Spoke The Moneychanger and stars Daniel Hendler, Dolores Fonzi, Luis Machín, and Benjamín Vicuña with Germán de Silva (Pablo Giorgelli’s Las Acacias), Gabriel Perez, and David Roizner Selanikio.
Schweinsteiger (Luis Machín) with Humberto Brause (Daniel Hendler)
During the 57th New York Film Festival, Federico Veiroj joined me for a conversation that led to a discussion of the production design by Pablo Maestre Galli, the editing by Fernando Epstein and Fernando Franco, the fashion of the Fifties,...
- 1/4/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Can you describe “Sans Soleil” with something as banal as words? Because how could one come to express the cinematic equivalent of a memory with a series of letters? What choice of vocabulary could be adequate enough to talk about a 105 minutes epic? I mean, people have tried but they only seem naïve. They have called it an experimental film but how could we use such a word when experimental films have fallen in arms, when experimental film making has sadly been overlooked as it has slipped in the pitiless depths of modern day pretentiousness? They have called it an essay film but an essay film is too general of a description to fully capture what exactly this film is. So the question still remains, while one very specific thought still lingers on.
No one has the right to talk about great works of art but poets. Sadly, I am no poet.
No one has the right to talk about great works of art but poets. Sadly, I am no poet.
- 11/27/2019
- by Lyberis Dionysopoulos
- AsianMoviePulse
Warning: Spoilers for Game of Thrones below!
A Great War may be coming on Game of Thrones, but the writers on the eighth season premiere made sure to remind us of all the ground the show has covered over the years - particularly with regard to Theon Greyjoy. Near the end of the episode, Theon finally rescues his sister Yara from Euron Greyjoy's ship. The reunion is somewhat bittersweet, as Theon had effectively abandoned her last season despite her loyalty to him throughout his ordeal with Ramsay Bolton in seasons prior. But after a headbutt for retribution, Yara forgives her younger brother stating, "What is dead may never die."
In this particular instance, Yara uses this phrase to refer to their bond as one that has grown stronger despite the hardships both siblings have faced. However, the phrase carries a larger significance on the Iron Islands and the show as a whole.
A Great War may be coming on Game of Thrones, but the writers on the eighth season premiere made sure to remind us of all the ground the show has covered over the years - particularly with regard to Theon Greyjoy. Near the end of the episode, Theon finally rescues his sister Yara from Euron Greyjoy's ship. The reunion is somewhat bittersweet, as Theon had effectively abandoned her last season despite her loyalty to him throughout his ordeal with Ramsay Bolton in seasons prior. But after a headbutt for retribution, Yara forgives her younger brother stating, "What is dead may never die."
In this particular instance, Yara uses this phrase to refer to their bond as one that has grown stronger despite the hardships both siblings have faced. However, the phrase carries a larger significance on the Iron Islands and the show as a whole.
- 4/15/2019
- by Andrea Johnson
- Popsugar.com
TV writer and producer Michael Schur doesn’t believe you can become a better person. But in the grand scheme of things, he’s not sure it matters.
“To me, the meaning of life is to try to be a better person today than you were yesterday,” Schur told IndieWire. “And I don’t think you’ll succeed.”
Schur said that no matter how benevolent your intentions, it’s unlikely you’ll incrementally improve yourself, every single day, without falter, until the inevitable moment of your death. People screw up. It happens.
“But the meaning of life isn’t to be a better person today than you were yesterday, it’s to try to be,” he said. “You can still go to sleep and say, ‘Well, I tried. I failed today. I blew it. I got angry and lost my temper when that guy cut me off in traffic. I...
“To me, the meaning of life is to try to be a better person today than you were yesterday,” Schur told IndieWire. “And I don’t think you’ll succeed.”
Schur said that no matter how benevolent your intentions, it’s unlikely you’ll incrementally improve yourself, every single day, without falter, until the inevitable moment of your death. People screw up. It happens.
“But the meaning of life isn’t to be a better person today than you were yesterday, it’s to try to be,” he said. “You can still go to sleep and say, ‘Well, I tried. I failed today. I blew it. I got angry and lost my temper when that guy cut me off in traffic. I...
- 1/23/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
About two decades ago, Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry had one of the most transcendent experiences of his life. He and his brother traveled to Calanda, Spain where they picked up drums and joined in on some local festivities, Rompida de la Hora, that date back to the Inquisition. From 8 p.m. on Good Friday until 6 in the morning, they drummed without stopping, drinking wine and eating olives that people fed them. “You just get into a trance after a few hours of playing and you wander around the...
- 11/7/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Eager to see ‘Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free’ which just opened in NYC (at the Village East) on April 20th and is opening in La on April 27th (at Laemmle Royal), I wanted to learn how this forgotten woman of the late 19th century and early 20th century thought and interacted as an equal to with the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, the poet Rainer Marie Rilke and Sigmund Freud.
Directed by a woman, Cordula Kablitz-Post, the historical feature reveals the nonconforming life choices of Lou Andreas-Salomé, an intellectual and the first female psychoanalyst. Born 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé was a radical for her time who shunned tradition in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and inspiring the minds of the early 19th Century’s greatest thinkers. Even after her death, Lou has remained a controversial figure who was considered a groundbreaking philosopher and author by her famous male peers Nietzsche and Freud,...
Directed by a woman, Cordula Kablitz-Post, the historical feature reveals the nonconforming life choices of Lou Andreas-Salomé, an intellectual and the first female psychoanalyst. Born 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé was a radical for her time who shunned tradition in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and inspiring the minds of the early 19th Century’s greatest thinkers. Even after her death, Lou has remained a controversial figure who was considered a groundbreaking philosopher and author by her famous male peers Nietzsche and Freud,...
- 4/22/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
She may be all but unknown to Americans, but Russian-born thinker Lou Andreas-Salome, reportedly the first female psychoanalyst, was viewed as a peer by such boldface names as Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Rainer Maria Rilke. She was the object of both romantic love and intense intellectual admiration — usually at the same time, even though she was famous for refusing amorous affairs and the shackles they came with. Though Cordula Kablitz-Post's feature debut Lou Andreas-Salome, The Audacity to be Free views this very unconventional woman through the conventions of the biopic, its drama benefits from a viewer's ignorance of her...
- 4/18/2018
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s a great line spoken by an aged Lou Andreas-Salomé (Nicole Heesters) to new friend and potential biographer Ernst Pfeiffer (Matthias Lier) upon his praise-fueled declaration that the way she lived her life — her freedom — was a touchstone for modern feminism. Her reply is, “Nonsense. What’s changed for us women since then?” It’s not presented as a jaded reaction or one specifically attached to the era in which she spoke it (the 1930s), though, because you could say the same today and not be wrong. Yes, women do have it better, but the world has still not found its way towards true equality. See #GamerGate, the Wahlberg/Williams pay disparity on All the Money in the World, and the struggles endured by the women in your life.
I kept returning to this line as Cordula Kablitz-Post’s film Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free advanced because...
I kept returning to this line as Cordula Kablitz-Post’s film Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free advanced because...
- 4/17/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
A boldly unconventional woman gets a crushingly conventional biopic with “Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free.” Such a heavy-handed title fits the film perfectly, far more than the original English-language handle, “In Love With Lou,” which confusingly made the movie sound like a sitcom. In her feature debut, director and co-writer Cordula Kablitz-Post clearly decided that Andreas-Salomé, famed author, philosopher and psychoanalyst, needed to be treated not just with kid gloves, but with pristine laminated mitts, robbing her subject of humor, let alone the charm that bewitched the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sigmund Freud. This one’s strictly for audiences who love historical name-dropping; German box office following its June 2016 opening was negligible.
Kablitz-Post set herself the admirable task of rescuing Andreas-Salomé from being relegated to the role of muse, recognizing that her name is more often featured as an adjunct to famous men rather...
Kablitz-Post set herself the admirable task of rescuing Andreas-Salomé from being relegated to the role of muse, recognizing that her name is more often featured as an adjunct to famous men rather...
- 4/13/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: “Wonder Woman” and “Black Panther” have helped to reinvigorate the superhero genre as a social and creative force, and the success of those films can be at least partially attributed to their directors. With that in mind, which filmmaker would you most like to see direct a blockbuster superhero movie next, and why?
Max Weiss (@maxthegirl), Baltimore Magazine
I’m firmly in the camp of not wanting my favorite actors or directors to either star in or helm superhero films. (I audibly groaned yesterday when the news surfaced that Joaquin Phoenix was going to be playing The Joker.) Yes, Waititi, Coogler, Jenkins, et al managed...
This week’s question: “Wonder Woman” and “Black Panther” have helped to reinvigorate the superhero genre as a social and creative force, and the success of those films can be at least partially attributed to their directors. With that in mind, which filmmaker would you most like to see direct a blockbuster superhero movie next, and why?
Max Weiss (@maxthegirl), Baltimore Magazine
I’m firmly in the camp of not wanting my favorite actors or directors to either star in or helm superhero films. (I audibly groaned yesterday when the news surfaced that Joaquin Phoenix was going to be playing The Joker.) Yes, Waititi, Coogler, Jenkins, et al managed...
- 2/12/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Kelly Clarkson showed off her gold-plated pipes and found a romantic date with her husband inside James Corden's car on the latest installment of The Late Late Show's "Carpool Karaoke."
The segment began with Clarkson helping Corden get through the doldrums of traffic with renditions of her biggest hits like, "Since You've Been Gone," "Stronger" and "Because of You," as well as two tracks off her latest LP, Meaning of Life, "Love So Soft" and "Whole Lotta Woman." The pop star even exhibited her versatility when Corden challenged...
The segment began with Clarkson helping Corden get through the doldrums of traffic with renditions of her biggest hits like, "Since You've Been Gone," "Stronger" and "Because of You," as well as two tracks off her latest LP, Meaning of Life, "Love So Soft" and "Whole Lotta Woman." The pop star even exhibited her versatility when Corden challenged...
- 11/30/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Dustin Hoffman, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey … as the list of harassment allegations in Hollywood grows, can we any longer separate cinema from the morality of its makers?
The 1949 film The Third Man casts Orson Welles in the role of smirking Harry Lime, a black-market racketeer who sees himself as an artist. War-torn Vienna is his canvas; its desperate people his oils. He needs a climate of fear and darkness in order to paint his masterpiece. “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance,” Lime explains. “In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
The Third Man was scripted by Graham Greene, but its most famous speech was improvised on the spot. Welles would later say he’d pilfered it from “an old Hungarian...
The 1949 film The Third Man casts Orson Welles in the role of smirking Harry Lime, a black-market racketeer who sees himself as an artist. War-torn Vienna is his canvas; its desperate people his oils. He needs a climate of fear and darkness in order to paint his masterpiece. “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance,” Lime explains. “In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
The Third Man was scripted by Graham Greene, but its most famous speech was improvised on the spot. Welles would later say he’d pilfered it from “an old Hungarian...
- 11/10/2017
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Originally published as an editorial in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on March 27, 2017The debate about "our nation's visible memory" (German Minister of Culture Monika Grütters on the medium of film) is fortunately now gaining a certain visibility of its own, which it has never before had in Germany. What is less fortunate is the way in which the preservation of this memory is frequently being discussed and promoted publicly as well as politically – namely, in a reductive manner and using misleading images and concepts. This applies to the representatives of film archives and cinematheques who, in their pursuit of better funding, primarily use only terminology established by the media market. And it applies even to experienced commentators engaged in film culture who run the risk of bogging themselves down in an already-forgotten, secondary front by placing "especially valuable" spheres and contents of German film heritage against each other (most recently in this newspaper,...
- 10/17/2017
- MUBI
You can tell a lot about a person by the television they watch and the books they read — even while they reveal their theories as to why they lost a Presidential election.
Clinton’s new memoir, “What Happened,” chronicling her experiences surrounding the 2016 election, is surprisingly candid on a number of levels. For example, regarding her coping mechanisms following the loss of the election, “It wasn’t all yoga and breathing: I also drank my share of chardonnay.”
But even more fascinating are the ways in which she invokes current pop culture. Some of the references feel more forced than others. Some of them are truly bonkers.
This is not a complete list of every reference made, as we omitted some of the religious, spiritual, and historical texts upon which she drew to make her points. Instead, here is all the evidence you need that the Clintons know their way around a TV remote,...
Clinton’s new memoir, “What Happened,” chronicling her experiences surrounding the 2016 election, is surprisingly candid on a number of levels. For example, regarding her coping mechanisms following the loss of the election, “It wasn’t all yoga and breathing: I also drank my share of chardonnay.”
But even more fascinating are the ways in which she invokes current pop culture. Some of the references feel more forced than others. Some of them are truly bonkers.
This is not a complete list of every reference made, as we omitted some of the religious, spiritual, and historical texts upon which she drew to make her points. Instead, here is all the evidence you need that the Clintons know their way around a TV remote,...
- 9/22/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Kelly Clarkson has experienced a lot of amazing moments in her life: She was the first to win American Idol, she won a Grammy for best pop vocal album for Stronger, and she's given birth to two adorable children. Now, the singer can add a new high to that list—being mentioned in Hillary Clinton's new book What Happened. Clarkson's shout-out appears at the beginning of a chapter alongside a quote by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger—Friedrich Nietzsche (and Kelly Clarkson)," the book reads. Of course, Clinton was referencing a lyric from Clarkson's song "Stronger," specifically, "what doesn't...
- 9/14/2017
- E! Online
Lou Written by Haley Rice Directed by Kate Moore Heaney Presented by Theatre 4the People at The Paradise Factory, NYC May 19-June 3, 2017
Quickly: how many of you have heard of Sigmund Freud? Now, how many of you have heard of Lou Salomé? It might surprise many audience members to see Salomé using Freud’s own psychoanalytic techniques on him late in Haley Rice’s new play Lou, but that is part of the point. Directed with an all-female cast by Kate Moore Heaney, Lou operates, to a large degree, in the genre of feminist reclamation, bringing attention to significant women unfairly elided by history. Much like The Other Mozart, which stopped in New York last fall to shine its spotlight on Wolfgang’s talented sister, Maria Anna, Rice’s play focuses on an exceptional woman lost over time in the shadows of the famous men with whom she lived and worked.
Quickly: how many of you have heard of Sigmund Freud? Now, how many of you have heard of Lou Salomé? It might surprise many audience members to see Salomé using Freud’s own psychoanalytic techniques on him late in Haley Rice’s new play Lou, but that is part of the point. Directed with an all-female cast by Kate Moore Heaney, Lou operates, to a large degree, in the genre of feminist reclamation, bringing attention to significant women unfairly elided by history. Much like The Other Mozart, which stopped in New York last fall to shine its spotlight on Wolfgang’s talented sister, Maria Anna, Rice’s play focuses on an exceptional woman lost over time in the shadows of the famous men with whom she lived and worked.
- 5/31/2017
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
This post originally appeared on Entertainment Weekly.
Whether he’s reading to kids at the White House, hitting up local bookstores on Black Friday, or giving recommendations to his daughters, President Barack Obama may as well be known as the Commander in Books.
Potus is an avid reader and recently spoke to the New York Times about the significant, informative and inspirational role literature has played in his presidency, crediting books for allowing him to “slow down and get perspective.” With his presidency coming to an end this Friday, EW looked back at Obama’s lit picks over the years...
Whether he’s reading to kids at the White House, hitting up local bookstores on Black Friday, or giving recommendations to his daughters, President Barack Obama may as well be known as the Commander in Books.
Potus is an avid reader and recently spoke to the New York Times about the significant, informative and inspirational role literature has played in his presidency, crediting books for allowing him to “slow down and get perspective.” With his presidency coming to an end this Friday, EW looked back at Obama’s lit picks over the years...
- 1/19/2017
- by Mark Marino
- PEOPLE.com
Richard Strauss may never have dreamed that his 1896 tone poem, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus spoke Zarathustra,” would be infamous thanks to the use of the fanfare in Stanley Kubrick‘s stunning 1968 “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Then again, if Strauss were alive at the time, perhaps he’d of picked Kubrick to direct a version of “Salome” on […]
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The post 5-Minute Supercut Pays Tribute To The Cinematic Genius Of Stanley Kubrick appeared first on The Playlist.
- 7/11/2016
- by Samantha Vacca
- The Playlist
Stephen Fishbach was the runner-up on Survivor: Tocantins and a member of the jury on Survivor Cambodia: Second Chance. He has been blogging about Survivor strategy for People since 2009. Follow him on Twitter @stephenfishbach.
"You can't boss adults around, really, not too much, without pissing them off". – Sherea Lloyd, Survivor: China
19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, "Monster slayers must beware lest they become monsters themselves. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back into you."
Was Nietzsche predicting Tai Trang's flip from Hero to Heel on Survivor 32: Kaoh Rong: Brains vs. Brawn vs Beauty 2? Undoubtedly he was.
"You can't boss adults around, really, not too much, without pissing them off". – Sherea Lloyd, Survivor: China
19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, "Monster slayers must beware lest they become monsters themselves. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back into you."
Was Nietzsche predicting Tai Trang's flip from Hero to Heel on Survivor 32: Kaoh Rong: Brains vs. Brawn vs Beauty 2? Undoubtedly he was.
- 5/5/2016
- by Stephen Fishbach, @stephenfishbach
- People.com - TV Watch
Stephen Fishbach was the runner-up on Survivor: Tocantins and a member of the jury on Survivor Cambodia: Second Chance. He has been blogging about Survivor strategy for People since 2009. Follow him on Twitter @stephenfishbach."You can't boss adults around, really, not too much, without pissing them off". - Sherea Lloyd, Survivor: China 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, "Monster slayers must beware lest they become monsters themselves. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back into you." Was Nietzsche predicting Tai Trang's flip from Hero to Heel on Survivor 32: Kaoh Rong: Brains vs.
- 5/5/2016
- by Stephen Fishbach, @stephenfishbach
- PEOPLE.com
Stephen Fishbach was the runner-up on Survivor: Tocantins and a member of the jury on Survivor Cambodia: Second Chance. He has been blogging about Survivor strategy for People since 2009. Follow him on Twitter @stephenfishbach."You can't boss adults around, really, not too much, without pissing them off". - Sherea Lloyd, Survivor: China 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, "Monster slayers must beware lest they become monsters themselves. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back into you." Was Nietzsche predicting Tai Trang's flip from Hero to Heel on Survivor 32: Kaoh Rong: Brains vs.
- 5/5/2016
- by Stephen Fishbach, @stephenfishbach
- PEOPLE.com
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In the wake of Batman V Superman, Ryan looks at gritty realism in superhero movies, and wonders what the term really means...
It’s a 2016 movie moment that will probably be quoted and parodied for some time to come: Superman tearing the roof off the Batmobile. Batman standing up, his face illuminated by flame. “Tell me,” Batman asks Superman, “do you bleed? You will...”
On the face of it, this year’s Batman V Superman might seem like the last word in dark, gritty superhero movies. Ben Affleck’s incarnation of Batman is portrayed as a hard-drinking lost soul who channels all his rage and self-hatred into variously beating up or branding Gotham’s criminal element. Henry Cavill’s Superman groans under the yoke of his own super powers, having become something of an outcast since his fight with Zod destroyed half of Metropolis. Much of the...
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In the wake of Batman V Superman, Ryan looks at gritty realism in superhero movies, and wonders what the term really means...
It’s a 2016 movie moment that will probably be quoted and parodied for some time to come: Superman tearing the roof off the Batmobile. Batman standing up, his face illuminated by flame. “Tell me,” Batman asks Superman, “do you bleed? You will...”
On the face of it, this year’s Batman V Superman might seem like the last word in dark, gritty superhero movies. Ben Affleck’s incarnation of Batman is portrayed as a hard-drinking lost soul who channels all his rage and self-hatred into variously beating up or branding Gotham’s criminal element. Henry Cavill’s Superman groans under the yoke of his own super powers, having become something of an outcast since his fight with Zod destroyed half of Metropolis. Much of the...
- 4/11/2016
- Den of Geek
“Stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back. It is alive. It is hungry. And it devours.” Madison (Kim Dickens) channels a bit of Friedrich Nietzsche and zombies come to the beach in search of sun-soaked flesh in the new teaser video for AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead Season 2.
The first of Season 2’s fifteen episodes premieres on Sunday, April 10th at 9:00pm Est, followed by an episode of Talking Dead.
From the Previous Press Release: ““Fear the Walking Dead” will air its second season of 15 episodes in two parts, beginning with the first of seven episodes on Sunday, April 10th at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt. The remaining eight episodes will air later in 2016. The series, which delivered the highest-rated first season of any series in cable history among total viewers and all key demos in live+3 ratings, is executive produced by showrunner Dave Erickson, Robert Kirkman,...
The first of Season 2’s fifteen episodes premieres on Sunday, April 10th at 9:00pm Est, followed by an episode of Talking Dead.
From the Previous Press Release: ““Fear the Walking Dead” will air its second season of 15 episodes in two parts, beginning with the first of seven episodes on Sunday, April 10th at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt. The remaining eight episodes will air later in 2016. The series, which delivered the highest-rated first season of any series in cable history among total viewers and all key demos in live+3 ratings, is executive produced by showrunner Dave Erickson, Robert Kirkman,...
- 2/27/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In an ideal world, every filmmaker would live long enough to see the premiere of their final film, even if their life is ended sooner than expected. It’s one thing to experience shooting the film and editing the final product, but it is another thing entirely to witness your creation with an audience seeing it for the first time. Pier Paolo Pasolini is one such director who never witnessed his final film in the company of an audience. 20 days before the premiere of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom at the 1975 Paris Film Festival, an unknown assailant, or group of assailants, murdered Pasolini. A well-known provocateur in film and the political arena, Pasolini unknowingly saved his most controversial work for last.
Salò is a notorious adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s equally infamous novel The 120 Days of Sodom. In Pasolini’s film, however, the novel’s four wealthy,...
Salò is a notorious adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s equally infamous novel The 120 Days of Sodom. In Pasolini’s film, however, the novel’s four wealthy,...
- 11/27/2015
- by William Penix
- SoundOnSight
Special Mention: Shock Corridor
Written and directed by Samuel Fuller
USA, 1963
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Shock Corridor stars Peter Breck as Johnny Barrett, an ambitious reporter who wants to expose a killer hiding out at the local insane asylum. In order to solve the case, he must pretend to be insane so they have him committed. Once in the asylum, Barrett sets to work, interrogating the other patients and keeping a close eye on the staff. But it’s difficult to remain a sane man living in an insane place, and the closer Barrett gets to the truth, the closer he gets to insanity.
Shock Corridor is best described as an anti-establishment drama that at times is surprisingly quite funny despite the dark material. The film deals with some timely issues of the era, specifically the atom bomb, anti-communism, and racism. It features everything from a raving female love-crazed nympho ward,...
Written and directed by Samuel Fuller
USA, 1963
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Shock Corridor stars Peter Breck as Johnny Barrett, an ambitious reporter who wants to expose a killer hiding out at the local insane asylum. In order to solve the case, he must pretend to be insane so they have him committed. Once in the asylum, Barrett sets to work, interrogating the other patients and keeping a close eye on the staff. But it’s difficult to remain a sane man living in an insane place, and the closer Barrett gets to the truth, the closer he gets to insanity.
Shock Corridor is best described as an anti-establishment drama that at times is surprisingly quite funny despite the dark material. The film deals with some timely issues of the era, specifically the atom bomb, anti-communism, and racism. It features everything from a raving female love-crazed nympho ward,...
- 10/9/2015
- by Ricky Fernandes
- SoundOnSight
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Rick Grimes' "plot armor" has sneakily created one of the most interesting characters on television...and now the movies too.
I was one of those nerds who actually read all of the assigned reading in school. Things Fall Apart? They sure do and with lots of yams. The Scarlet Letter? More like: The Scarlet Symbolism For Dummies*.
*I’ll never get over the fact that a literary classic has a villain named “Chillingworth.”
But there was one high school reading assignment that was far too long, dense and complex for even my nerdy self to attempt: Crime and Punishment. Asking hormonal teenagers to wade through 700 pages of translated Russian is a tall task and certainly not one I was up for. So I read the Spark Notes...which were awesome. The Spark Notes of Crime and Punishment may be the best book I’ve ever read...
Rick Grimes' "plot armor" has sneakily created one of the most interesting characters on television...and now the movies too.
I was one of those nerds who actually read all of the assigned reading in school. Things Fall Apart? They sure do and with lots of yams. The Scarlet Letter? More like: The Scarlet Symbolism For Dummies*.
*I’ll never get over the fact that a literary classic has a villain named “Chillingworth.”
But there was one high school reading assignment that was far too long, dense and complex for even my nerdy self to attempt: Crime and Punishment. Asking hormonal teenagers to wade through 700 pages of translated Russian is a tall task and certainly not one I was up for. So I read the Spark Notes...which were awesome. The Spark Notes of Crime and Punishment may be the best book I’ve ever read...
- 10/9/2015
- Den of Geek
Here is the first installment of “Comics Mythos”, a semi-regular column about the literary and mythological roots of comic book characters (mostly superheroes). This article will look at the powerhouses of comics, or the “supermen”. (After the Big Blue Boy Scout, not Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Ubermensch”.)
In the world of superheroes, it seems that feats of physical strength and acrobatic prowess are possibly the most prevalent demonstration of super powers. One must wonder if such physical powers are a product of the time in which these comics were originally produced – the 1930s for DC’s iconic Superman and 1941 for Marvel’s super soldier, Captain America – or does this sort of hero have roots that extend deeper into literary history. Obviously, mythology is full of heroes who have superhuman strength, stamina, and agility with Thor and Hercules being the most famous in the world of comics for their huge roles in...
In the world of superheroes, it seems that feats of physical strength and acrobatic prowess are possibly the most prevalent demonstration of super powers. One must wonder if such physical powers are a product of the time in which these comics were originally produced – the 1930s for DC’s iconic Superman and 1941 for Marvel’s super soldier, Captain America – or does this sort of hero have roots that extend deeper into literary history. Obviously, mythology is full of heroes who have superhuman strength, stamina, and agility with Thor and Hercules being the most famous in the world of comics for their huge roles in...
- 8/31/2015
- by Merriell Moyer
- SoundOnSight
Thus Spoke the Spectacle by Eric Goodman Kraine Theater, NYC March 29-August 30, 2015
Thus Spoke the Spectacle identifies itself as a "theatrical rock performance" and draws on writers such as Noam Chomsky, Marshall McLuhan, and, as the title suggests, Guy Debord and Friedrich Nietzsche. This multimedia performance brings those influences together with video and still imagery that is accompanied by creator Eric Goodman on guitar and vocals and Leo Friere on drums. Divided into ten songs, Goodman’s hourlong piece sets out to critique what Debord, in the title of one of his best-known works, calls the society of the spectacle, the elevation of the superficial that is presented by mass media and passively consumed by the audience.
There are some quite successful juxtapositions. A newscaster reporting on mutilated animals quickly cuts to a commercial for a fast-food burger. Reports of murder and destruction give way to ads worshipping consumer goods.
Thus Spoke the Spectacle identifies itself as a "theatrical rock performance" and draws on writers such as Noam Chomsky, Marshall McLuhan, and, as the title suggests, Guy Debord and Friedrich Nietzsche. This multimedia performance brings those influences together with video and still imagery that is accompanied by creator Eric Goodman on guitar and vocals and Leo Friere on drums. Divided into ten songs, Goodman’s hourlong piece sets out to critique what Debord, in the title of one of his best-known works, calls the society of the spectacle, the elevation of the superficial that is presented by mass media and passively consumed by the audience.
There are some quite successful juxtapositions. A newscaster reporting on mutilated animals quickly cuts to a commercial for a fast-food burger. Reports of murder and destruction give way to ads worshipping consumer goods.
- 7/13/2015
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Quotes are the most prominent way in which famous people and characters are remembered. Martin Luther King is known for his “I Have A Dream” speech, Friedrich Nietzsche for saying “without music, life would be a mistake”, while former President of the Us Ronald Reagan will always be associated with telling Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this (the Berlin) Wall”.
Sometimes though, those quotes are lost or changed over time – meaning people are remembered for things they didn’t actually ever say themselves. Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill are just three examples of historical figures with who particular phrases are associated which they never actually said themselves – or, in some cases, only borrowed from other people.
What’s perhaps worse, however, is that even some written or recorded phrases in films, books and television programmes have been misquoted or misattributed over time. Famous quotes, repeated on an extremely regular basis,...
Sometimes though, those quotes are lost or changed over time – meaning people are remembered for things they didn’t actually ever say themselves. Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill are just three examples of historical figures with who particular phrases are associated which they never actually said themselves – or, in some cases, only borrowed from other people.
What’s perhaps worse, however, is that even some written or recorded phrases in films, books and television programmes have been misquoted or misattributed over time. Famous quotes, repeated on an extremely regular basis,...
- 2/23/2015
- by Chris Waugh
- Obsessed with Film
Madonna is showing some skin at the 2015 Grammy Awards! The 56-year-old singer flaunted some major cleavage on the red carpet, sporting a matador-inspired embroidered bustier by Givenchy. She completed her edgy ensemble with black leather thigh-high boots, gloves and a hat with mesh over her eyes. The best part? She even showed off her booty (black thong!) to fans and photographers as she walked away! The Queen of Pop hit the stage on Music's Biggest Night to perform her new song, "Living for Love," from her upcoming 13th studio album, "Rebel Heart." Madge released the music video for the track on Friday -- and it lives up to all the hype! Like her video for 1994's "Take a Bow," the new clip features a bullfighting theme -- but this time, the legendary pop star plays the role of the sexy matador. Donning a red bolero jacket, a black lace corset and an embellished leotard,...
- 2/8/2015
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Madonna has set her sights on Snapchat, social media’s fastest growing mobile app, to launch the first music video off her album “Rebel Heart,” a spokesperson for Snapchat confirmed to TheWrap. On Thursday “Living For Love,” the album’s first single, will be the first music video to debut on the company’s Discover channel, before an audience of approximately 200 million socially savvy users. Also Read: Madonna Tweets Grammy Performance Tease The video portrays Madonna as a sexy bullfighter surrounded by Bdsm-inspired dancers in animal horns, and features a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche: “Man is the cruelest animal.
- 2/5/2015
- by Lia Haberman
- The Wrap
giphy.com
Adolf Hitler – a name which brings connotations of death, warfare, murder, misery and the attempted extermination of an entire race.
Yes, the Nazi leader established himself as the Fuhrer of all of Germany before leading the world into a second brutal World War between the years of 1939 and 1945, but he also went about trying to do so much more than that.
Six-million Jews – and an estimated 11million people in all – were killed as a result of the Holocaust, which he orchestrated, and more than 20million more died during the course of World War II.
An authoritarian dictator, Hitler’s “Nazism” drew upon Italian Fascism for inspiration and shunned the capitalistic methods of the Western Powers or the socialistic theories of the Soviet Union.
He believed in the “Aryan Race” of Germans and in Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch who should rule above the slave-like under-classes of the sub-human Untermensch.
Adolf Hitler – a name which brings connotations of death, warfare, murder, misery and the attempted extermination of an entire race.
Yes, the Nazi leader established himself as the Fuhrer of all of Germany before leading the world into a second brutal World War between the years of 1939 and 1945, but he also went about trying to do so much more than that.
Six-million Jews – and an estimated 11million people in all – were killed as a result of the Holocaust, which he orchestrated, and more than 20million more died during the course of World War II.
An authoritarian dictator, Hitler’s “Nazism” drew upon Italian Fascism for inspiration and shunned the capitalistic methods of the Western Powers or the socialistic theories of the Soviet Union.
He believed in the “Aryan Race” of Germans and in Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch who should rule above the slave-like under-classes of the sub-human Untermensch.
- 1/25/2015
- by Chris Waugh
- Obsessed with Film
Xenosaga, Episode 1: Der Wille Zur Macht
Monolith Soft
Namco Bandai
PS2, PS3, DS
When the mammoth project known collectively as Xenosaga was first announced in 2001, it sounded like a dream come true for RPG fans, at least on paper. Developer Monolith Soft promised a six episode epic that would redefine video game storytelling and wildly reinvent the genre. Unfortunately for the team, the first title in the series debuted to more modest sales than initially expected, and not without it’s fair share of criticisms.
The first, and most significant divider of opinion was the main selling point of the series to begin with: the story. Told over the course of a staggering 8 hours of cut scenes, Episode One‘s plot line accounted for roughly 1/3 of the entire game. This would become a major sticking point for each of the three games that made it to release, but was...
Monolith Soft
Namco Bandai
PS2, PS3, DS
When the mammoth project known collectively as Xenosaga was first announced in 2001, it sounded like a dream come true for RPG fans, at least on paper. Developer Monolith Soft promised a six episode epic that would redefine video game storytelling and wildly reinvent the genre. Unfortunately for the team, the first title in the series debuted to more modest sales than initially expected, and not without it’s fair share of criticisms.
The first, and most significant divider of opinion was the main selling point of the series to begin with: the story. Told over the course of a staggering 8 hours of cut scenes, Episode One‘s plot line accounted for roughly 1/3 of the entire game. This would become a major sticking point for each of the three games that made it to release, but was...
- 9/26/2014
- by Mike Worby
- SoundOnSight
Like some elaborate act of God and conspiracy that crosses timelines and layers of philosophy and perspective worthy of True Detective itself, a dense conversation has formed over the last week regarding whether True Detective showrunner Nic Pizzolato plagiarized the character and idea of Rust Cohle off of similar ideas in the book Conspiracies Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti. The debate first started when writer Mike Davis over at The Lovecraft Zine posted an interview he conducted with the head of Thomas Ligotti online, Jon Padgett. The article cites numerous instances of fairly similar expressions and turns of phrase that feel inspired by the Ligotti novel from 2010, including arguments that Pizzolato only brought up Ligotti in interviews when prodded and never alluded to the author on the DVD commentary. Padgett alleged that this was particularly serious because Rust’s character helped make the show unique:
The most egregious...
The most egregious...
- 8/8/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
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