Exotic and irrational entertainment

...books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions

Works discussed on E & I

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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Rene Clair's early films part 3

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Le Million (1931, directed and written by René Clair, after a play by Georges Berr and Marcel Guillemaud) Michel (René Lefèvre), like ...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Rene Clair's early films part 2

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One striking thing about René Clair's The Italian Straw Hat (see René Clair's early films part 1 ) is how few intertitles it has...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Rene Clair's early films part 1

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In 1924 the Dada and Surrealist artist Francis Picabia wrote a scenario and designed the sets and costumes for a two-act "instantane...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Suggested reading: Misogynist economists edition

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Ingrained sexism in higher education, attacks on what is already a flawed voting system, and our willing participation in our own surveillan...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

The Magic Flute

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The entrance of the Queen of Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute ( Die Zauberflöte ),  designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1815. ...
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