Herzog and Krauss in Conversation
Hands down, the best conversation with Herzog yet. Perseverance is where the gods dwell. Lawrence M. Kraussphilosophical cinemaWerner Herzog
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Weinstein chat with Herzog
Eric Weinsteinphilosophical cinemaWerner Herzog
Herb Simon and Wim Wenders
Here’s an interesting discussion paper that caught my eye. I couldn’t resist a title with Simon and most improbably, Wenders, in it. Ethics is then also involved. As Wenders emphasised, freedom is at risk when the capacity of self-reflection and self-elaboration becomes weaker: when humans are not autonomous in their capacity of thinking and deciding…
“You’ll look funny when you’re fifty”
H/T Gid. Check out the Jay Glennie-Sandy Lieberson interview here in support of this “coffee table” book. Donald Cammelljames foxMick JaggerNicolas Roegperformancepersonal identityphilosophical cinemaSandy Lieberson
From Mishima with love
Here’s another somewhat pretentious Johnny-come-lately review of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters but fortunately there is this little nugget of a footnote to Mishima’s life. JapanMishima: A Life in Four ChaptersPaul Schraderphilosophical cinemaphilosophical literatureYukio Mishima
Ennio Morricone, ma musique, ma vie
Just released — hoping it’s a cracking read. Ennio Morriconemusicphilosophical cinema
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Having just seen a fully restored version of this film which I previously had last seen on the big screen at a midnight showing on its release in ’76, I was superficially struck by the prescience of the idea of space travel underwritten by private enterprise. Though Walter and Peter in their forthcoming book, Space…
Paul Schrader and Alan Poul on Mishima
Paul Schrader and Alan Poul discuss the trials and tribulations in the making of Mishima: A life in four chapters. For copyright reasons, one is not contemporaneously privy to what Paul and Alan are viewing (much like Herzog’s commentary tracks). As a curtain-raiser one should listen to Benjamin Noggle’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters — Criterion Retrospective.…
Harry Dean Stanton
It’s puzzling that HDS’s most important film gets relatively short-shrift in so many of the reports on his death. It took someone of the calibre of Dirk Bogarde to make sure that this film got its due recognition. Anyway, here is Roger Ebert’s review and a Guardian reassessment. Wim Wenders’ “Paris, Texas” (1984) is the story…
David Bowie: Transience and Potentiality
This is one of the better and more interesting academic pieces I’ve come across on Bowie: I suspect there is a cottage industry in the making (I’m currently reading this). In another journal of psychology (I won’t mention the name) a writer offers up the crassest of virtue-signaling tendencies by linking Bowie’s character Thomas Jerome…
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