Mark Fenemore
Mark Fenemore
@eroshenko.bsky.social
Modern European historian with a special focus on policing and cold-war Berlin. Used to write about GDR subcultures.
I enjoyed Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles. It addresses the violence and the cynicism while still presenting Buñuel’s complexity, intellectual depths and ambivalence.
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles [Official US Trailer, GKIDS] - In Select Theaters August 16
In Select Theaters August 16For more info: www.bunuelmovie.comParis, 1930. The infamous surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel is left penniless after the scandalo...
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February 24, 2024 at 6:28 PM
The dance is called ‘Radioactive flesh’. Land without Bread is presented as documentary/propaganda parody, but seems to bristle between the lines with scabrous surreal humour. The violence towards animals - shooting the goats and killing the donkey using bees - seems perverse.
February 24, 2024 at 6:23 PM
The devil who tempts Simon resembles a character from Un chien andalou. The miracle of restoring a thief’s hands makes no dent on his outlook, using them thoughtlessly to cuff his daughter. At the end, Simon finds himself transported to pop-cultural hell/purgatory, a club of writhing teen dancers.
February 24, 2024 at 6:16 PM
You scheduled that precisely for ‘Defender of the Fatherland Day’
February 24, 2024 at 5:59 PM
They had the idea that a folk song could carry a message far and wide. This one was taken up by the 1983 March for Equality. youtu.be/JEazocvsLL4?...
February 18, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Asked when the barbed wire separating her (mostly immigrant) community from the neighbouring French area disappeared, the daughter of Algerian immigrants said ‘It’s still there.’
February 18, 2024 at 11:15 AM