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The very best 70s American cinema cannot be described as "gritty." Take a broader perspective on tone and narrative (the mixed-genre innovations) that make the 70s films exciting to watch and experience. @crah_igg
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Some of the thinking and ideas from and about that rich period can be found in Leo Braudy and Robert Kolker. @Howllebecq
Which writers do you think got the ‘70s right? I try to read anything I can from Sarris or Kael, and many of your retrospective reviews have turned me on to some great films, but I feel like I haven’t fallen in love with the ‘70s in the U.S. as much as I have the 50-60 years of American cinema preceding them.
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They all have value and are worth reading. Am especially fond of Woods on Hawks and Satyajit Ray, plus Simon on Ingmar Bergman. @etrommater
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Though this is directed at Me. White, since I was tagged, I'd strongly encourage folks to dig into Stanley Kauffmann, Robin Wood, and (yes) John Simon from that period. Simon, even if you’d never want him over for dinner, was a great writer. Kauffmann & Wood were great critics.
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Dismissing Heidegger because his work is too difficult (whatever that even means) is simply lazy. If you find 'Being and Time' or some of his later works impenetrable, there are plenty of other works worth exploring, highly original and beautiful, including 'The Question Concerning Technology,' 'The Origin of the Work of Art,' 'Poetry, Language, Thought,' 'Hölderlin's Hymns 'Germania' and 'The Rhine',' 'Elucidations of Hölderlin's Poetry,' 'The Phenomenology of Religious Life,' 'Nietzsche: The Will to Power as Art,' 'Heraclitus: The Inception of Occidental Thinking; Logic: Heraclitus' Doctrine of the Logos.'
Heidegger can often appear to be an impenetrable and esoteric thinker, whose ideas have little bearing on real life.
But Simon Critchley works to undo this perception and bring phenomenology to bear on the everyday.
In this interview, Critchley takes us from the atrophy of academic philosophy all the way to what philosophy can and should be.
After reflecting on his own intellectual journey, as one in which he “ignored advice”, he discusses Heidegger’s and thereby offers an enlightening interpretive frame to understand Being and Time.
Tap the link to watch now. iai.tv/video/mysticism-heide…
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Painted a few yrs ago today.
St Mary’s lighthouse in Whitley Bay. Now
displayed in the home of friends in North Carolina.
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Nice colour schemes, and the vast, sublime landscape. The glowing red of the postbox next to the house signifying home.
In honour of #postboxsaturday an oldie of mine. You might have to zoom in to find the 📮
#watercolourart
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No.
These are fads that will soon fade. The watches will lose 1/2 their value overnight. Stick to traditional dials and colors. Tradition lasts.
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The problem with being 40 and arguing with a 20-year-old is you are both arguing from two entirely different universes.
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Shakespeare and his works were deeply religious
His tomb and monument inside Holy Trinity Church destroys the secular scholarly argument
Shakespeare scholars: “Shakespeare was just an ordinary man, and a secular playwright”
Me: “Shakespeare was an extraordinary man whose works were understood by his own contemporaries as religious in nature”
My evidence:
Shakespeare and his family occupy the most prestigious burial location inside Holy Trinity Church, and their graves have remained essentially undisturbed for more than 400 years—a tremendous honor and a recognition of his piety.
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Sylvia Plath was born on this day in 1932.
Though she is generally regarded as one of the great poets of the last century, her career as a painter is often neglected.
However, 'Plath's visual works of art should not be regarded as minor or inconsequential in the artist's career. By examining the author's early paintings, one identifies motifs and concerns that will later be reflected in her mature poetry, such as in her art poems. From the influence of subjectivity and personal history in the composition of a "confessional" painting or poem to the conflicting role of women in the 1950s, all these subjects seem to preoccupy Plath from an early age.' (Diana Calado)
Read Diana Calado's essay here:
online.fliphtml5.com/kyoil/R…
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Scholars don’t want you to know the Truth about Shakespeare
I do
Please read my novels to see for yourself— here is Chapter 1 text & audio for FREE :
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"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato
