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Tag Archives: Cinema
David Lynch’s Room to Dream
Review of the new bio-memoir, Room to Dream, written by David Lynch and Krisitine McKenna. “For the past forty somewhat years, David Lynch has dreamscaped a long day’s journey into night, taking audiences on a hallucinated tour through the underworld … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinema, david lynch, John Biscello, Prose, riot material, room to dream
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Cinemate
Tinder, how tongues snake flames to debut summer’s flick– Burn Slow While Kissing.
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Tagged Cinema, Desire, haiku, John Biscello, kiss, passion, Poetry, sensual
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
(Review of The Passion of Joan of Arc, the silent film classic, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary.) Celebrating its 90th anniversary, Dreyer’s film remains starkly modern in its composition and complexion, fixed in an otherworldly and hallucinogenic present. Jean Cocteau … Continue reading
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Tagged carl theodore dreyer, Cinema, essay, joan of arc, John Biscello, mystic, Prose, renee maria falconetti, Review, riot material, saint, silent film, the passion of joan of arc, visionary
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Veils
Succubus to self, modeling Salome, dance of the seven deadly veils, thinned, to bare pleasure, and visitation rites.
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Tagged Cinema, dance, John Biscello, louise brooks, model, nude, photo, poem, salome, shoes, siren, succubus, veils
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Arson
Committing arson, five-alarm siren on screen– Louise Brooks, how you burned.
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Tagged Cinema, film, fire, golden age, haiku, John Biscello, legend, louise brooks, poem, silent film, siren, star
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Chaplin, Keaton
Men, who took the fall, to keep the world in stitches– Clowning achievement. (Film still from Limelight, the only film in which Chaplin and Keaton appeared together).
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Tagged buster keaton, charlie chaplin, Cinema, clowns, golden age, haiku, John Biscello, limelight, movie, poem, slapstick
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Film Still
She, the heroine, in the still of her own life– Christ, how far to go? (Photo by Cindy Sherman)
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Tagged Christ, cindy sherman, Cinema, film still, haiku, John Biscello, movie, poem, Poetry, ponderance, window
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Literacy
Survivors bible, How to Fall and Get Back Up– In slapstick we trust.
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Tagged bible, buster keaton, Cinema, clown, comedy, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, pratfalls, Reading, silent film, slapstick, the great stoneface
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Silent Night
The ongoing rabble and cinematic narrative in my mind is finding how nourishing and full and tender the heart can grow steeped in silence alone.
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Tagged Beauty, Cinema, devotion, dream, heart, John Biscello, joy, love, night, Poetry, silence
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