Journey to the Golden Age

There on a plain, a multitude. From a distance—a hill or the eye of a soaring bird—one could see numberless little dots in the shape of men assembled around a lesser crowd in the middle. There was a great distance separating them. Focusing the gaze, one could make out the silhouettes: a great many feathers brandished in the air over a palette of colors that gave the frenzy an almost carnival atmosphere. A pointillist would have had a field day with the scene, were it not for the shimmering, a...

Reformation and Repression under Bishop Brionnet of Meaux

As the Protestant Reformation emerged in France in the early 16th century, the city of Meaux became one of the first centers of controversy. Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet II undertook a campaign to reform the Catholic Church from within and called Lefèvre d'Étaples, a leading figure in French humanism, to lead missionary efforts. Soon they found themselves at odds with the Catholic hierarchy. Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet Unkno...

L'humanité in One Shot

One Shot  is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie.  At the finale of Bruno Dumont’s L’humanité (1999), an enervating investigation of both body and soul has finally led to the arrest of Pharaon’s friend Joseph (Philippe Tullier) for the rape and murder of a young girl. Pharaon (Emmanuel Schotté), the presiding police lieutenant, walks into the room to face an inconsolable Joseph. In an epiphanous mix of eros, ...

Festival of the Federation - World History Encyclopedia

Festival of the Federation Definition Listen to this article Festival of the Federation Isidore Stanislas Helman (Public Domain) The Festival of the Federation (Fête de la Fédération) was a celebration that occurred on the Champ de Mars outside Paris on 14 July 1790, the first anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille. With over 300,000 people in attendance, the event honored the achievements of the French Revolution (1789-99) and the unity of the French people. ...

When Hollywood stars tried to free Roman Polanski with a 2009 petition

Back in 2009, Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland after a request from the United States authorities to do so. However, a year later, the Swiss government and police rejected the US’ request and released Polanski from detention in Zurich. The reason was partly due to a petition signed by several high-profile members of the Hollywood film industry.The petition read: "We demand the immediate release of Roman Polanski. Film-makers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the ...

The Children's Homer - Homer in Print - The University of Chicago Library

The Children's Homer Homer was a staple of the schoolroom in antiquity, used to teach reading, grammar, and rhetoric. Despite concerns on the part of early Christians about teaching the works of pagan authors, allegorical interpretations made it possible to extract moral and ethical lessons from Homeric myth and assured survi...

Filippo Fimiani, Just a Mess. Définitions Analogies Dialectiques - PhilPapers

Just a Mess. Définitions Analogies Dialectiques Filippo Fimiani Parigi, Francia: Mimesis (2021) Authors Filippo Fimiani Università degli Studi di Salerno Abstract The paper leans on a movie cult from the 1960s, Blow-Up (1966) by Michelangelo Antonioni, of which a famous sequence is often mentioned, the one in which the protagonist, the photographer Thomas (considered here as a "conceptual character"), repeatedly enlarged the photographs he made in a park, in order ...

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565) – The Public Domain Review

Clip source: The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565) – The Public Domain Review The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of ...

Big Blue (idea) by jonnyace - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Big Blue (idea) See all of Big Blue, there is 1 more in this node. (idea) by jonnyace Thu Aug 24 2000 at 1:56:31 1994 French film, directed by Luc Besson. French title La Grande Bleu. US release is supposed to be a mockery of the original. Starring Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr. Also stars Jean Reno, one of the reasons to watch the movie. This film has something of a cult status among scuba divers, although it is actually about ...

The filmmaker’s presence in French contemporary autofiction: from filmeur/filmeuse to acteur/actrice: New Review of Film and Television Studies: Vol 0, No 0

The filmmaker’s presence in French contemporary autofiction ABSTRACTAutofiction as realised in cinematic practice adds a figure of identification to the literary author-narrator-character: that of actor/actress. The filmmaker, playing him/herself, employs innovative strategies in audiovisual narration to generate this autofictional identity. This article analyses these strategies as seen in French cinema, on which literary autofiction has a determining influence. My analysis of this...

Melvyn Minnaar: Bacchus, Barthes and the Bible - winemag - Wine Magazine

It was a Bacchus-inspired moment. Revival of spirit was in the air, spring-like in our garden of delights, and the wine had been poured around the cheerful table of friends. The heady subject: "What is wine today?"The question had oozed out of discussions about prices, prizes, preferences and philosophies about why we love wine. Why we constantly talk about it, whether in purple prose as judges, or simply communicating with one another the enjoyment experience. We are drinkers and thinkers – ...

The Footnotes to The French Dispatch

[link ] Wes Anderson’s tenth film, The French Dispatch, is about a fictional magazine published by a group of Americans in France. The movie’s magazine is based on the New Yorker and in advance of its release, Anderson has published an anthology of articles from the actual New Yorker (and other magazines) that inspired the characters in the film. It’s called An Editor’s Burial. A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Ma...

The Pink Salt Ponds of Camargue, France

Check out Italian photographer Paolo Pettigiani’s photos of the evaporation ponds of Camargue, France. While these ponds are industrially harvested for their salt, the pink color of the water is naturally occurring in the salt marshes of the area, caused by halophile dunaliella salina algae. The area is also an important bird habitat and is one of the few places in Europe that flamingos live, which might seem like a coincidence until you learn that flamingos gain their pink color from eating ...

The reason why Ingmar Bergman hated Jean-Luc Godard films

(Credit: Joost Evers / Anefo / Gary Stevens) The reason why Ingmar Bergman hated Jean-Luc Godard films Both Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard belong to the elite stratum of filmmakers who facilitated the evolution of cinema. They have made some of the definitive cinematic masterpieces of the 20th century, including the likes of Persona and Pierrot le Fou. Inevitably, their works were always in discourse with each other due to th...

CAPSULE: SEVEN WOMEN FOR SATAN (1976)

DIRECTED BY: Michel LemoineFEATURING: Michel Lemoine, Joëlle Coeur, Howard VernonPLOT: French aristocrat Count Boris Zaroff is haunted by his decadent ancestors and resorts to murdering stray women for kicks.Normally I jump on any Eurosleaze movie with "Satan" in the title, reasoning that if it has tits and horns, I’m bound to like it. Sadly, Seven Women for Satan is yet one more occasion where the infernal moniker is merely applied metaphorically. The French title of this movie is Les week-e...

Paris Review 234 - clips

porpoise etymology

I wonder if there is any connection (even just in Kubrick or others doing wordplay, NOT necessarily -- or at all -- because of an etymological connection, which I doubt) . But if the porpoise is a pig, the word "mereswyn" does remind me an awful lot of the word "Martian" which of course is about Mars, not the sea. But still . . . worth a query or two. -zas 7 entries found Related entries & more  Advertisement Related entries & more  Related entries & more  Related entries & more  Relate...

Guillotine game

Interesting semiotics if you think about it because the paper is a metaphor for the distribution of ideology during the French revolution on which this game is themed.

On amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds – The Brooklyn Rail

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Quixote of Arabia

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Antonin Artaud

Antonin ArtaudSourceURL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/antonin-artaud Poetry Foundation Antonin Artaud, considered among the most influential figures in the evolution of modern drama theory, was born in Marseilles, France, and he studied at the Collège du Sacré-Cœur. He moved to Paris, where he associated with surrealist writers, artists, and experimental theater groups during the 1920s. When political differenc...

Orange Tree - poem in The Paris Review issue 232

Hollywood reflexivity

21 July 2021 On the name Hollywood

Light and shade ("L'ombre et la lumière") | Paris Musées

Light and shade ("L'ombre et la lumière") | Paris MuséesSourceURL: http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/expositions-virtuelles/light-and-shade-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere Skip to main content Menu Les musées de la ville de paris Collections Billetterie Visit Exhibitions What's new...