An epic tale of love and revenge Why do we watch movies? I mean, isn't it amazing that we pay to go in a dark room filled with strangers to watch representations of made up stories? A while ago we were talking about the importance of literature and, if you think about it, people have been telling stories since the beginning of...
Hey guys, I have a quick announcement. Everybody in the conference room. Sorry, I've been watching way too much The Office lately. Anyway, I started a style blog called Skirt Bouquet which will cover fashion inspiration and all things stylish. I'll be posting there on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays so there are no changes here in The Culture Enthusiast. You can visit the new...
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I'm guest posting over The Catholic Young Woman today (technically, yesterday) about Audrey Hepburn's classic movie Sabrina and what we can learn from it. I'd love to know what you think... ...
Today's post is part of the series Writer's Corner I just finished reading a collection of Jane Austen's juvenilia and unfinished novels. I couldn't help feeling the difference between her great novels, such as Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility and the writings from her youth. I know it's not fair to judge her early material. I mean, 12-year-old Jane puts 26-year-old...
Art Deco is the name of an artistic style that began in the 1920's. Even though it originated in France, Art Deco found wide acceptance around the world. It represented luxury and prosperity as a reaction to the austerity imposed by World War I. One of the most famous examples of Art Deco architecture is probably the Chrysler building in New York. The other day...
Major spoiler alert, kay? Many movies criticize Tv and modern culture. Take Idiocracy for example. I love this movie, but it gets a little too painful (and gross) to watch. Other movies are more reflexive and dramatic such as Network. And then there's the Truman Show. Truman Show is one of my favorite movies: it is entertaining and talks about serious things, it...
I am posting one day in advance of schedule to take part on Broke and Bookish's meme Top 10 Tuesday. Today's theme is bookish people you want to meet. My list consist mostly of dead people, which isn't very realistic, but let's face it when am I ever going to meet John Green? 1) Dostoyevsky In the dispute Tolstoy versus Dostoyvesky, I say without...
Untitled by Mark Rothko, 1960 The other day I went out with Mark Rothko. And by that I mean that I saw his painting in real life for the first time. I had already heard a lot about him before and because of that I was very anxious. Jackson Pollock told me: “Come on Paula, you like Abstract expressionism, right? So…You’ll love my boy...
Simply put: The Producers is one of my favorite comedies ever. Mel Brooks in its best and it’s not even a parody. The Producers is about a bankrupt producer (Zero Mostel) who comes across an idea to make money (a lot of it) through a Broadway flop. The idea was given to him by his neurotic and naïve accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder),...
I have some pretty exciting news. Exciting for nerds like me, of course. As you guys know by my Writer's corner posts I'm always trying to improve my writing. So, I've enrolled in James Chartrand's Damn Fine Words writing course. I guess part of my excitement comes from how well she promotes the course (who doesn't want their writing to bring results?) It's a great feeling...
The Gleaners by Jean François Millet A little bit of history Date: 1857 Located in the Museé D’Orsay, Paris. Jean Francois Milliet was part of the "Barbizon School", a group of landscape and figure painters who settled near the village of Barbizon in the forest of Fontainebleau. Paul Johnson calls him "the Raphael of the peasants", since his paintings portray peasant life with...
Lindsey from The Motion Pictures posted this tag and you guys know how much I love making lists so I need to explain no further. Actually, I do. The tag is movies that "play with my emotions". A movie that makes me feel happy: Le Petit Nicolas Please tell me you've seen this, otherwise I'll have to stop typing and play the Dvd for...
Untitled, 1970 by Robert Morris "Of course, works of art should 'call into question' - what else does the tradition of tragedy from Antigone to Hedda Gabler do? But they need to do so in far more complex and enduring ways than we find in most recent postmodernist art." Christopher Butler in Postmodernism I usually have two difficulties when studying about Postmodernism: to...
"Tecnhique is a just a mean of arriving at a statement" - Jackson Pollock I was very happy to have found the video below. In 1951, Hans Namuth shot a film of Jackson Pollock painting and showing his new "drip" technique. It's amazing to see him paint through glass. (Plus his paint-covered shoes are very cool.) The making of this film also appears...
