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Blackpaint 366 – Darkness on the Danube, Bovary on the Steppe
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Magnificent, gloomy galleries, on a dark afternoon above the Danube. Best 19th century painters on show were Mihaly Muncacsy – dark, atmospheric, romantic c… more →
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My Radar
wrote 1 week ago: This is a post that I’m creating for a few purposes. First, it will serve as an unofficial che … more →
NYT article Evolving Russia Finds a Recorder of Its Moment .
wrote 3 weeks ago: NYT article Evolving Russia Finds a Recorder of Its Moment . “The director Andrei Zvyagintsev’ … more →
Sokurov, La Trilogía del Poder y la fragilidad de la condición humana...
wrote 2 months ago: “In reality, we are all travelers – even explorers of mortality”, Thomas S. Monson … more →
in the pipeline...
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wrote 4 months ago: - guest lecture on the use of music in Stanley Kubrick’s films (MAD faculty, Genk, end of Febr … more →
Blackpaint 366 - Darkness on the Danube, Bovary on the Steppe
wrote 6 months ago: Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Magnificent, gloomy galleries, on a dark afternoon above the Da … more →
Why You Should Read This Blog
wrote 7 months ago: Greeting. This is yet another blog regarding film, or, to be more precise, film criticism. There … more →
Blackpaint 360 - Faust, Laocoon and the Red Desert
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wrote 7 months ago: De Kooning I was surprised to read in the Retrospective that DK got into a fight with Clement Greenb … more →
Blackpaint 358 - Bach, Charcoal, Chalk and Tracer
wrote 8 months ago: As Promised: Top 10 uses of music in films (excluding musicals – to come later): 1. The Gospe … more →
Exploration of Space and Time in Russian Ark
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wrote 8 months ago: Alexander Sokurov’s unprecedented single-cut film, Russian Ark, shares little with Hollywood’s tradi … more →
Fausto
wrote 8 months ago: Alma mutável Diz-se muito que o cinema de Sokurov deve boa parte à pintura como constituinte de … more →
Blackpaint 356 - Night Fishing, Rick and Ilsa, Sidney's Fez
wrote 8 months ago: Away from wi-fi so couldn’t publish last week. Colour Thought I’d pick out some painting … more →
In one breath
wrote 10 months ago: On 23rd December 2001, the Hermitage in Russia was taken over by a film crew, some 2000 actors in co … more →
Alexander Sokurov's "Faust"
wrote 1 year ago: If an oil painting by a great master were placed in a furnace and allowed to slowly melt over a low … more →
Sonata for Hitler, and Moloch (December 2011)
wrote 1 year ago: Sonata For Hitler was a collection of clips from German Nazi-era newsreels edited together by Aleksa … more →
Blackpaint 313 - Pretentious is a Pre-condition
wrote 1 year ago: Fred Cuming Saw a book of Cuming’s paintings – landscapes, gardens, studio interiors … more →
Sokurov and Woody Allen - Travelling in time
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wrote 1 year ago: I think that my participation in the Russian Film Festival’s organization in London had a great impa … more →
Blackpaint 305
wrote 1 year ago: Richard Hamilton At the Tate Britain last week, saw Hamilton’s iconic “Just what is it t … more →
Fausto - 35ª Mostra SP
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wrote 1 year ago: Faust (2011 – RUS) E Aleksandr Sokurov fecha sua tetralogia sobre o poder, dessa vez não é um tirano … more →
Faust (LFF, West End Vue 24 October)
wrote 1 year ago: *** Faust as a character from Dostoevsky... Before the film began, the lights came up and Ian Christ … more →
