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...
