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Friday, November 10, 2023

“By these festival rites, from the age that is past…”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:53 pm

Among the prominent films she produced
or distributed …  “Teorema” (1968) … .

Above — The New York Times  reports a November 4th death.

Below — This  journal on that date . . .

From a New York Times  review of  "Teorema" —

 " 'Teorema' (theorem) is a parable, a movie of realistic images
photographed and arranged with a mathematical precision
that drains them of comforting emotional meaning."

" 'Teorema' is a religious film, but I think it would take
a very hip Jesuit to convert it into a testament to
contemporary Roman Catholic dogma."

— Vincent Canby, April 22, 1969

See as well "The Thing and I."
 

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Sunday, October 8, 2023

Einführung

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:42 pm

Metaphysics for the damned —

From the 1979 film "A Little Romance" —

Reading something you
don't want me to see?

It's just a book.

I used to read those too. What is it?

An Introduction to Metaphysics,
by Martin Heidegger.

School has changed
since I was in seventh grade.

I'm just reading it for fun.

Fun?
Heidegger?
Why were you hiding it from me?

Most people think anyone
who reads Heidegger is weird.

I don't. But I have to admit
that philosophy was never
one of my strong subjects
in college.

Heidegger.
You really understand that?

Heidegger isn't all that hard.
His stuff is mostly etymological.

Like, "Why is there something
rather than nothing at all?"

… And for the not so damned —

The Source —
https://www.bard.edu/library/arendt/pdfs/
Heidegger-EinfuhrungMetaphysik.pdf

The actress playing the teen reading Heidegger in the 1979 film
"A Little Romance" was Diane Lane. The film was set in Venice.

Later in Venice . . .

Ben Affleck and Diane Lane at the 2006 Venice Film Festival
premiere of  "Hollywoodland" :

An antidote to Hollywoodland . . .

The classic novel Under the Volcano :

"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"

Monday, May 8, 2023

The Eighth Day… Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:53 pm

From my hometown newspaper
on the eve of my 16th birthday —

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Teorema

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:39 pm

The sequel to The Bride's Chair

The Groom's Davenport

Schoolboy Problem

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 10:07 am

Sir Laurence Olivier, in "Term of Trial" (1962), dangles
a participle in front of schoolboy Terence Stamp:

"Walking to school today
my arithmetic book
fell into the gutter"

Were Stamp a Galois, the reply might be "Try this one, sir."

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