Hal-an-tow, jolly rumbelow,
We were out long before the day-o
To welcome in the summer time,
To welcome in the May-o,
Summer is a-coming in,
And winter’s gone away.
30 April 2011
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon ...
Hal-an-tow, jolly rumbelow,
We were out long before the day-o
To welcome in the summer time,
To welcome in the May-o,
Summer is a-coming in,
And winter’s gone away.
29 April 2011
The Book of Life (Hartley, 1998)
-Are you really the devil?
-Yes, I am.
-Would you like some soup?
_______________________________
It's a tragedy, but it's a beautiful thing never the less.
-Yes, I am.
-Would you like some soup?
_______________________________
It's a tragedy, but it's a beautiful thing never the less.
28 April 2011
Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs.
Écrivain raté, destin raté. Comme j'aime ce mot, 'raté'. La destinée humaine ça conduit comme ça, en ratant. ... Et de ratage en ratage, on s'habitue à ne jamais dépasser le stade du brouillon. La vie n'est que l'interminable répétition d'une représentation qui n'aura jamais lieu.
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
dir Jeunet (2001)
27 April 2011
24 April 2011
Pépé le Moko
Mireille Balin et Jean Gabin
dir Duvivier, 1936
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Le déjeuner des canotiers
dir Duvivier, 1936
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Le déjeuner des canotiers
22 April 2011
20 April 2011
17 April 2011
The new Harry Lime
"This Narrative advocates for [the United States of] America to pursue her enduring interests of prosperity and security through a strategy of sustainability that is build upon the solid foundations of our national values."
from A National Strategic Narrative (2011)
by Mr Y
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"... you and I aren't heroes. The world doesn't make any heroes outside of your stories."
"Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?"
"Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we?"
Orson Welles inThe Third Man
dir Reed (1949)
15 April 2011
13 April 2011
"... born with a weak heart ..."
Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie
Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
The Manuscript found in Saragossa
(dir Wojciech Has, 1964)
12 April 2011
Bring tea for the tillerman ...
"The weight of futility that our society places upon the individual is a meaningless illusion that disappears as soon as you realize that your own two hands can lift it away. Power exists within you as soon as you choose to use it."
BrokenFix (perpetrators of the Maine Labor Mural Projector Bomb)
11 April 2011
Brave New Education
NYC teacher on education reform:
'The high-stakes tests may be worthless as pedagogy but they are a brilliant mechanism for undermining the school systems, instilling fear and creating a rationale for corporate takeover. There is something grotesque about the fact that education reform is being lead not by educators but by financiers and speculators and billionaires.'
______________________
"The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do not lie to themselves. They do not pretend that fraud is moral or that corporate greed is good. They do not claim that the demands of the marketplace can morally justify the hunger of children or denial of medical care to the sick."
Why the United States is destroying its education system
Chris Hedges
April 10, 2011
'The high-stakes tests may be worthless as pedagogy but they are a brilliant mechanism for undermining the school systems, instilling fear and creating a rationale for corporate takeover. There is something grotesque about the fact that education reform is being lead not by educators but by financiers and speculators and billionaires.'
______________________
"The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do not lie to themselves. They do not pretend that fraud is moral or that corporate greed is good. They do not claim that the demands of the marketplace can morally justify the hunger of children or denial of medical care to the sick."
Why the United States is destroying its education system
Chris Hedges
April 10, 2011
09 April 2011
Modesty Blaise (dir Losey, 1966)
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"I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?"
Cat Stevens
from Tea for the Tillerman
1970
07 April 2011
06 April 2011
05 April 2011
02 April 2011
recuerdos del otro 11 de setiembre ... el de 1973
"Cuántos tienen que morir
para ver la libertad."
No puedes volver atrás
(1964)
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (San Ignacio, 28 de septiembre de 1932 - Santiago, 16 de septiembre de 1973)
para ver la libertad."
No puedes volver atrás
(1964)
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (San Ignacio, 28 de septiembre de 1932 - Santiago, 16 de septiembre de 1973)
"The days of mere protest are over, and the days of separating war, and racism, and pollution of natural resources, and social injustice, and male chauvinism, into neat little compartments are over. I say this with the conviction—and if it sounds apocalyptic, o.k., it is apocalyptic—that unless all men and women of good will realize this very, very soon, and act on it, there will be no future, but an increasing horror followed by annihilation."
Denise Levertov
from a speech delivered at a rally
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
April 15, 1970
Denise Levertov
from a speech delivered at a rally
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
April 15, 1970
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