Dr. Anthony Esolen writes about what he calls “The Language of No: the essential anti-language of modernist art.” As examples, Esolen points to two pieces of architectural design recently named winners in a Vatican contest. “It is not, then, that the winners fail to be Italian or Catholic. It is that they succeed in being anti-Italian and anti-Catholic, not merely avoiding every opportunity to speak the language of the people and of the Church but speaking, shouting, the Language of No, which says that there shall be no symbols, no language, no shared history, no human devotion to what transcends place and time but what is embodied in both place and time: no culture.” https://www.crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-anti-language-of-modernist-art
New York City unveiled a statue on the roof of a courthouse on Madison Avenue in January 2023 which the artist described as a representation of “abortion rights” and part of a “cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.” The statue is part woman, but appears to have horns like a ram and a web of tentacle-like protrusions at each arm. https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-turned-abortion-into-a-pagan-idol-new-york-courthouse-installs-statue-symbolizing-abortion-and-rbg
BTDT, prof FRS... 2022 as 'Alphaville:une étrange aventure...' 1965
Weirder and weirder...
jameswtravers24 June 2000 '...Overall, an amazing film that never ceases to surprise and shock. A dark and very frightening thriller, a comic pastiche of detective films, a love story, a sci-fi movie with a power-mad (and asthmatic) computer... how Godard managed to pull this one off is probably one of the great mysteries of cinema history. Watch, listen, laugh and be amazed.'
Only Thing Today’s Avant-Garde ‘Artists’ Challenge is Our Patience https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/03/only-thing-todays-avant-garde-artists-challenge-is-our-patience/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=act_eng&seyid=86451
Dr. Anthony Esolen writes about what he calls “The Language of No: the essential anti-language of modernist art.” As examples, Esolen points to two pieces of architectural design recently named winners in a Vatican contest. “It is not, then, that the winners fail to be Italian or Catholic. It is that they succeed in being anti-Italian and anti-Catholic, not merely avoiding every opportunity to speak the language of the people and of the Church but speaking, shouting, the Language of No, which says that there shall be no symbols, no language, no shared history, no human devotion to what transcends place and time but what is embodied in both place and time: no culture.” https://www.crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-anti-language-of-modernist-art
New York City unveiled a statue on the roof of a courthouse on Madison Avenue in January 2023 which the artist described as a representation of “abortion rights” and part of a “cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.” The statue is part woman, but appears to have horns like a ram and a web of tentacle-like protrusions at each arm. https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-turned-abortion-into-a-pagan-idol-new-york-courthouse-installs-statue-symbolizing-abortion-and-rbg
Great compilation.All part of the plan Yuri Bezemov told us about?
Happy New Year, Frederick!
BTDT, prof FRS... 2022 as 'Alphaville:une étrange aventure...' 1965
Weirder and weirder...
jameswtravers24 June 2000 '...Overall, an amazing film that never ceases to surprise and shock. A dark and very frightening thriller, a comic pastiche of detective films, a love story, a sci-fi movie with a power-mad (and asthmatic) computer... how Godard managed to pull this one off is probably one of the great mysteries of cinema history. Watch, listen, laugh and be amazed.'
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Understanding Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard
Zeos Greene
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1965, video essay made by Zeos Greene and Paige Dahlke.
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“Professor von Braun (Howard Vernon) has invented the omniscient computer
that rules the lives of the Alphaville citizens...
The dominating computer, reducing life to ‘logic’...
replaces the individual’s will with a tranquilized submission...
In Alphaville, by computer decree, killing is a spectator sport.
At a swimming pool, illogical [disobedient] men...are blindfolded
and made to stand on diving boards.
They are shot
and fall into the water, whereupon girls with knives dive
into the pool and hack at the bodies.
All this is greeted with polite applause from the tranquilized onlookers.
The atmosphere is totally unemotional.”
- Film historian Gordon Gow in Suspense in the Cinema (1968).
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Alphaville - (1965)- Jean-Luc Godard - Subtitulos en Español.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Alphaville (1965) Movie Script