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Tag Archives: silent film
Fear and Loathing in Golgotha
Beatitude earned by way of human cruelty– The head count, shameful. (Film still from The Passion of Joan of Arc)
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged haiku, joan of arc, John Biscello, martyrdom, passion of joan of arc, poem, renee maria falconetti, saint, silent film
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Buster’s Blues
At the fool’s margins, ceremony gives due pause for a life well-worn.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged buster keaton, haiku, John Biscello, poem, sad clown, silent film, the lot of the fool
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Cadenza
Some death is musical, a candied apparition scalding the bones of Venus in soft chambers of silk and notes of smoldering silence.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged black and white, John Biscello, louise brooks, poem, silent film, siren, venus
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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
Posted in Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
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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Arson
Committing arson, five-alarm siren on screen– Louise Brooks, how you burned.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Cinema, film, fire, golden age, haiku, John Biscello, legend, louise brooks, poem, silent film, siren, star
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Literacy
Survivors bible, How to Fall and Get Back Up– In slapstick we trust.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bible, buster keaton, Cinema, clown, comedy, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, pratfalls, Reading, silent film, slapstick, the great stoneface
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Tub
A dream-life, deferred, porcelain tub, no razors– still waters run deep.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bathtub, black and white, charlie chaplin, dream, haiku, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, silent film, tub
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Tatters
Tatters in half-light, the poor heart’s lonely hunting– shreds of pure love, sown.
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Tagged charlie chaplin, Cinema, classic, haiku, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, silent film, The Kid
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Flower
As the tension mounts, hope, in a single flower– loves me, loves me not?
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Tagged charlie chaplin, Cinema, city lights, classic, flower, haiku, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, silent film
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