TREME - MARK SCHWARTZ
12 X 26 INCHES, WATERCOLOR ON PAPER.
vendredi 23 novembre 2012
Paul Stickland Prints
Paul Stickland Prints:
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Some of my darker work, I love the haunted feelings of still dark, shadowy gardens at dusk.
These prints are taken from original watercolour paintings and available in many different paper and framing options on StrangeStore.
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See.me – New Portfolio Site with Launch Contests and Art Grants
See.me – New Portfolio Site with Launch Contests and Art Grants:
See.me has recently launched and in celebration, is offering $125,000 in prizes and grants for member artists.
See.me is a global community of photographers, designers, artists and musicians throughout the world.
See.me is brought to us by the same people (Artists Wanted) who held the giant art exhibition last year on the billboards of Times Square – Art Takes Times Square.
Here is a brief rundown of the awards and grants being offered. Each have their own set of qualifications and requirements.
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See.me has recently launched and in celebration, is offering $125,000 in prizes and grants for member artists.
See.me is a global community of photographers, designers, artists and musicians throughout the world.
See.me is brought to us by the same people (Artists Wanted) who held the giant art exhibition last year on the billboards of Times Square – Art Takes Times Square.
Here is a brief rundown of the awards and grants being offered. Each have their own set of qualifications and requirements.
Read more »
"Seven Seals" Collage Painting By Donna Holdsworth
"Seven Seals" Collage Painting By Donna Holdsworth:
©2012Donna HoldsworthThis painting is done on 16x20 wood panel. Many layers of collage, acrylic paints and mediums and metallics. The border on this painting is straight but it looks bowed in the photo. I took lots of photos but they all turned out the same so I used this one. If I am able to get a more accurate depiction I will post it on my blog. UV gloss finish. Purchase Info Here! or for more details about the making of this painting please visit my BLOG: Donna Holdsworth Contemporary Art. Thank you! A wonderful Thanksgiving to all!
©2012Donna Holdsworth
#294 Peggy's Wild Rose
#294 Peggy's Wild Rose:
Right therOur neighbor, Peggy, has a wonderful wild rose bush that produces a whole variety of colored roses. I picked this one right at the end of the season just as it was blooming. I've always admired them from our window. . . and I had to find something to put it in and this just polished off coke can was re saying "Hello."
Right therOur neighbor, Peggy, has a wonderful wild rose bush that produces a whole variety of colored roses. I picked this one right at the end of the season just as it was blooming. I've always admired them from our window. . . and I had to find something to put it in and this just polished off coke can was re saying "Hello."
Photography of Ludwig Wittgenstein Released by Archives at Cambridge
Photography of Ludwig Wittgenstein Released by Archives at Cambridge:
Philosophers have often ruminated on the aesthetics of photography. Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida begins with a poignant memorialization of his mother, as remembered through her photograph. Pierre Bourdieu’s Photography: A Middle-Brow Art wondered why and how the medium became so widespread that “there are few households, at least in towns, which do not possess a camera.” And Jacques Derrida’s posthumous Athens, Still Remains, a travel memoir accompanied by the photographs of Jean-Francois Bonhomme, begins with the mystical phrase “We owe ourselves to death.” For Barthes and Derrida, photography was a medium of suspended mortality—every photograph a memento mori. For another philosopher, the cryptic, polymath, and notoriously surly Ludwig Wittgenstein, photography was a concrete expression of his preferred means of perception. As he famously wrote in the Philosophical Investigations, “Don’t think, look!” For the unsentimentally cerebral Wittgenstein, a photograph is not a memorial, but a “probability.” The philosopher’s archive at the University of Cambridge includes the photograph above, a true “probability” in that it does not represent any one person but is a composite image of his face and the faces of his three sisters, made in collaboration with the “founding father of eugenics,” Francis Galton. The four separate photographs that Wittgenstein and Galton blended together are below.
Of the composite image, keeper of the Wittgenstein archives Michael Nedo writes that “Wittgenstein was aiming for different clarity expressed by the photography of fuzziness.”:
Wittgenstein’s grim portrait presents a contrast to the warmer recent photographic portraits of philosophers like those in Steve Pyke’s new book of philosopher portraits Philosophers. We’ve previously featured Pyke’s portraits of philosophers like Richard Rorty, David Chalmers, and Arthur Danto. For much a much less formal series of portraits of contemporary philosophers as everyday people, swing by the Tumblr Looks Philosophical.
Josh Jones is a doctoral candidate in English at Fordham University and a co-founder and former managing editor of Guernica / A Magazine of Arts and Politics.
Photography of Ludwig Wittgenstein Released by Archives at Cambridge is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
Philosophers have often ruminated on the aesthetics of photography. Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida begins with a poignant memorialization of his mother, as remembered through her photograph. Pierre Bourdieu’s Photography: A Middle-Brow Art wondered why and how the medium became so widespread that “there are few households, at least in towns, which do not possess a camera.” And Jacques Derrida’s posthumous Athens, Still Remains, a travel memoir accompanied by the photographs of Jean-Francois Bonhomme, begins with the mystical phrase “We owe ourselves to death.” For Barthes and Derrida, photography was a medium of suspended mortality—every photograph a memento mori. For another philosopher, the cryptic, polymath, and notoriously surly Ludwig Wittgenstein, photography was a concrete expression of his preferred means of perception. As he famously wrote in the Philosophical Investigations, “Don’t think, look!” For the unsentimentally cerebral Wittgenstein, a photograph is not a memorial, but a “probability.” The philosopher’s archive at the University of Cambridge includes the photograph above, a true “probability” in that it does not represent any one person but is a composite image of his face and the faces of his three sisters, made in collaboration with the “founding father of eugenics,” Francis Galton. The four separate photographs that Wittgenstein and Galton blended together are below.
Of the composite image, keeper of the Wittgenstein archives Michael Nedo writes that “Wittgenstein was aiming for different clarity expressed by the photography of fuzziness.”:
Galton wanted to work out one probability, whereas Wittgenstein saw this as a summary in which all manner of possibilities are revealed in the fuzziness.
Fuzziness is a word rarely applied to Wittgenstein’s thought—at least his early work in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus where his only goal is a clarity of thought that supposedly dissolves all the “fuzzy” problems of philosophy in a series of elliptical aphorisms. The philosopher also called himself a “disciple of Freud,” in that he sought to “think in pictures,” and reach beyond language to the images produced by dreams and the unconscious, “to enable us to see things differently.” Wittgenstein’s photographs are as strangely detached and mysterious as the man himself. Salon has a gallery of the philosopher’s photographs, which includes the portrait of him (below), taken at his instruction in Swansea, Wales in 1947. It’s an iconic image; Wittgenstein half-sneers disdainfully at the camera, his steady gaze a challenge, while the blackboard behind him shows a riot of scratches and scrawls. In the upper right-hand corner, the word RAW hangs ominously above the philosopher’s head.Wittgenstein’s grim portrait presents a contrast to the warmer recent photographic portraits of philosophers like those in Steve Pyke’s new book of philosopher portraits Philosophers. We’ve previously featured Pyke’s portraits of philosophers like Richard Rorty, David Chalmers, and Arthur Danto. For much a much less formal series of portraits of contemporary philosophers as everyday people, swing by the Tumblr Looks Philosophical.
Josh Jones is a doctoral candidate in English at Fordham University and a co-founder and former managing editor of Guernica / A Magazine of Arts and Politics.
Photography of Ludwig Wittgenstein Released by Archives at Cambridge is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
mercredi 21 novembre 2012
Émil Cioran, En Savoir Un Peu Plus…
Émil Cioran, En Savoir Un Peu Plus…:
Émil Cioran né le 8 avril 1911 à Răşinari en Roumanie, mort le 20 juin 1995 à Paris, est un philosophe et écrivain roumain, d’expression roumaine initialement, puis française à partir de 1949 « Précis de décomposition ».
Il est interdit de séjour dans son pays d’origine à partir de 1946, pendant le régime communiste. Bien qu’ayant vécu la majeure partie de sa vie en France, il n’a jamais demandé la nationalité française.
Il a parfois signé sous le nom de « E. M. Cioran ».
Sa Vie En France
Arrivé en France à la fin de cette année 1937 comme boursier de l’Institut français de Bucarest, il ne reviendra jamais en Roumanie où, pour lutter plus fermement contre La Garde de Fer, le roi Carol II instaure un régime autoritaire, faisant arrêter et exécuter Corneliu Codreanu (fondateur de la Garde de Fer), et où les « légionnaires » comme se font appeler ses membres commencent à assassiner des ministres, des professeurs, des banquiers, des Juifs.
Après l’effondrement de la France qui avait offert sa protection à la Roumanie par le traité du 13 avril 1939, un coup d’État largement favorisé par l’Allemagne nazie renverse Carol II en octobre 1940, et met au pouvoir la Garde de Fer et le maréchal Antonescu qui s’autoproclame « Pétain roumain ».
La France de Vichy et la Roumanie d’Antonescu restent alliées, mais dans le camp de l’Axe. La bourse de Cioran est donc maintenue, il peut rester à Paris pour y terminer sa thèse sur le philosophe Bergson. Après la soutenance de celle-ci, la bourse s’arrête et il devient un temps attaché culturel de l’ambassade de Roumanie à Paris.
Mais face aux persécutions sanglantes des régimes fascistes, tant en Roumanie qu’en France, il abandonne toute idéologie pour se consacrer exclusivement à l’écriture. Il est alors fortement influencé par Spengler.
La Pensée
L’œuvre de Cioran comporte des recueils d’aphorismes, ironiques, sceptiques et percutants, tels « De l’inconvénient d’être né » ou « Syllogismes de l’amertume » qui forment ses œœuvres les plus connues, mais on peut aussi y trouver des textes plus longs et plus détaillés.
D’une façon générale, l’œuvre de Cioran est marquée par son refus de tout système philosophique. Son scepticisme est probablement son caractère le plus marquant, bien plus que son pessimisme.
Cioran, dont les écrits sont assez sombres, est un homme de très bonne compagnie, plutôt gai. Il déclare avoir passé sa vie à recommander le suicide par écrit, et à, le déconseiller en paroles, car dans le premier cas cela relève du monde des idées, alors que dans le second il a en face de lui un être de chair et de sang.
Tout en conseillant et déconseillant le suicide, il affirme qu’il existe une supériorité de la vie face, à la mort : celle de l’incertitude. La vie, la grande inconnue, n’est fondée sur rien de compréhensible, et ne donne pas l’ombre d’un argument.
Au contraire, la mort, elle, est claire et certaine. D’après Cioran, seul le mystère de la vie est une raison de vivre.
On peut accuser Cioran d’avoir pris dans ses écrits une « pose » €de désespoir, mais il semble avoir été profondément et sincèrement triste de n’avoir pu établir de système qui donnerait un sens à sa vie, alors même que dans sa jeunesse il avait été extrêmement passionné, mais dans l’erreur ( les Cimes du désespoir).
Le cheminement littéraire de Cioran et son trajet spirituel ont, semble-t-il, trois points de repère majeurs selon Liliana Nieorescu : « la tentation d’exister , la tentation d’être Roumain, et la tentation d’être juif ».
Ni sa roumanité réfutée ni sa judéité manquée ne pouvaient lui offrir la moindre consolation pour l’humiliation, pour « l’inconvénient d’être né ».
Réflexions
Bien que l’œuvre de Cioran ne semble pas sujette à une controverse particulière et qu’elle bénéficie d’une notable acceptation dans les médias, peut-être due à un effet de mode depuis sa redécouverte récente, la sincérité de Cloran lui-même a parfois été controversée, soit en raison de ses opinions de jeunesse, soit parce qu’il fut accusé d’être un « poseur ».
Si son nom reste assez connu, son œœuvre, elle, reste le plus souvent ignorée, sans critique commentée, dans les débats littéraires et philosophiques actuels.
Le grand public la jugera souvent pessimiste, voire morbide.
On peut dégager parfois une critique contre l’excès stylistique ou le classicisme de son écriture, qui compromettraient la diffusion des idées : cela est peut-être dû au fait qu’il n’est pas francophone de naissance, et qu’il a appris le français d’abord dans les livres.
Des critiques y ont vu un manque de profondeur dans sa recherche philosophique, dans la mesure où Cioran reprend des idées nietzschéennes et bergsoniennes, en les illustrant simplement.
Émil Cioran
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mardi 20 novembre 2012
Lime Green Corner, abstract painting by Carol Engles
Lime Green Corner, abstract painting by Carol Engles:
8 x 11 watercolor and pastel on paper. $80 plus shipping. To purchase, contact me at:
California Abstract Artist Carol Engles
Exhibition: Figuratively Speaking; Degrees of Abstraction; Portal to Enigma
Exhibition: Figuratively Speaking; Degrees of Abstraction; Portal to Enigma:
Make art part of your new year by visiting Agora Gallery’s upcoming exhibitions. Let the harmony, joy and resonance of Figuratively Speaking add new vitality to your day, become intrigued by the charm and mystery embedded in the works of Degrees of Abstraction and feel the thrill of being poised on the brink of inspiration and discovery as you examine the art of Portal to Enigma. The exhibitions begin on January 17, 2012 and continue until February 7, 2012. The opening reception will take place on January 19, 2012. Entrance is free and all art lovers are warmly encouraged to attend.
There is an abiding sense of honesty and integrity that runs through the works that make up Figuratively Speaking. Whether the artist seeks to capture aspects of the natural world, the complexity of human nature or a personal emotion or experience, there is no doubt that their creation is motivated by a powerful belief and a desire to share a message and understanding. This, combined with the artists’ skill, makes viewing these artworks a profoundly memorable experience.
In Degrees of Abstraction, visitors will be fascinated by the varying approaches to form and the way it is portrayed. Allowing their backgrounds and knowledge to influence their artistic process, these artists use their own sources of inspiration to share that valuable energy with others, pouring creative vivacity into their creations so that it can, in turn, reach the hearts and minds of those who come into contact with the works.
Portal to Enigma presents a collection of compelling artworks that speak to their audience on a number of levels and through many different techniques. While full of an awareness of the vulnerabilities and frailties of human nature, they are also impressively optimistic and encouraging, standing as proof that new perceptions are possible and that the potential for change is always there to be grasped.
Exhibition dates: January 17, 2012 – February 7, 2012
Reception: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6-8 PM
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Featured artists:
Figuratively Speaking: Jim Cobb, Nancy De Boni, Lane M. Duncan, Pat Gastreich, Eliza Gomez, Gwen Graham, Patrick Mason, Coco Mobuli, Trevin Prince, Shyamala Rao, Mark Salevitz, Carmen Sotuela
Degrees of Abstraction: Sevega Adriano, Lawrence R. Armstrong, Brigitte Balbinot, Christian Bundegaard, Carmen Egea, Yuri Elperin, Laila Khan Furniturewalla, Ivana Kosanovic, Deva Lei, Marianna Merler, Marjolijn Oude Vrielink, Andreas Strobel
Portal to Enigma: Mauricio Cadavid, Roula Chreim, Rodolfo Cuesta, Jacques Desgagnés, Debra Fitzsimmons, Ignacio Hábrika, Kiko Sobrino, Jesús Uclés, Zae Ulrich, Aleksandra Vavilova
Make art part of your new year by visiting Agora Gallery’s upcoming exhibitions. Let the harmony, joy and resonance of Figuratively Speaking add new vitality to your day, become intrigued by the charm and mystery embedded in the works of Degrees of Abstraction and feel the thrill of being poised on the brink of inspiration and discovery as you examine the art of Portal to Enigma. The exhibitions begin on January 17, 2012 and continue until February 7, 2012. The opening reception will take place on January 19, 2012. Entrance is free and all art lovers are warmly encouraged to attend.
There is an abiding sense of honesty and integrity that runs through the works that make up Figuratively Speaking. Whether the artist seeks to capture aspects of the natural world, the complexity of human nature or a personal emotion or experience, there is no doubt that their creation is motivated by a powerful belief and a desire to share a message and understanding. This, combined with the artists’ skill, makes viewing these artworks a profoundly memorable experience.
In Degrees of Abstraction, visitors will be fascinated by the varying approaches to form and the way it is portrayed. Allowing their backgrounds and knowledge to influence their artistic process, these artists use their own sources of inspiration to share that valuable energy with others, pouring creative vivacity into their creations so that it can, in turn, reach the hearts and minds of those who come into contact with the works.
Exhibition dates: January 17, 2012 – February 7, 2012
Reception: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6-8 PM
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Featured artists:
Figuratively Speaking: Jim Cobb, Nancy De Boni, Lane M. Duncan, Pat Gastreich, Eliza Gomez, Gwen Graham, Patrick Mason, Coco Mobuli, Trevin Prince, Shyamala Rao, Mark Salevitz, Carmen Sotuela
Degrees of Abstraction: Sevega Adriano, Lawrence R. Armstrong, Brigitte Balbinot, Christian Bundegaard, Carmen Egea, Yuri Elperin, Laila Khan Furniturewalla, Ivana Kosanovic, Deva Lei, Marianna Merler, Marjolijn Oude Vrielink, Andreas Strobel
Portal to Enigma: Mauricio Cadavid, Roula Chreim, Rodolfo Cuesta, Jacques Desgagnés, Debra Fitzsimmons, Ignacio Hábrika, Kiko Sobrino, Jesús Uclés, Zae Ulrich, Aleksandra Vavilova
The Rolling Stones at 50: Mick, Keith, Charlie & Ronnie Revisit Their Favorite Songs
The Rolling Stones at 50: Mick, Keith, Charlie & Ronnie Revisit Their Favorite Songs:
The Rolling Stones are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, and like everything with the Stones, they’re doing it big. The band has scheduled a series of five special concerts on both sides of the Atlantic, beginning next Sunday in London and continuing in Newark, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York, in December.
And like everything with the Stones, it’s expensive. Tickets for the London shows, for example, range in price from about $150 to $1,500, which has prompted more than a few complaints. The band has defended the prices, saying that they’re doing a large-scale show with only five audiences to cover the production costs. “We’ve already spent a million on rehearsing in Paris,” guitarist Ronnie Wood told The Telegraph recently. “And the stage is going to be another few million. And the lights. We feel no bad thing about ticket prices. We’ve got to make something.”
The rock ‘n’ roll businessmen also expect to make something from a pay-per-view broadcast of the sold-out December 15 show in Newark, along with sales of a new illustrated autobiography called The Rolling Stones: 50 and a retrospective album called GRRR!, which comes in several editions ranging from the three-disc basic CD version to a five-disc vinyl boxed set. While promoting the album, all four members of the Stones agreed to be interviewed by Melissa Block of the NPR program All Things Considered. Block asked each of the Stones to pick one song from their extensive catalog to discuss. It’s an interesting series of conversations, and you can hear each one by following these links:
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The Rolling Stones at 50: Mick, Keith, Charlie & Ronnie Revisit Their Favorite Songs is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
The Rolling Stones are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, and like everything with the Stones, they’re doing it big. The band has scheduled a series of five special concerts on both sides of the Atlantic, beginning next Sunday in London and continuing in Newark, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York, in December.
And like everything with the Stones, it’s expensive. Tickets for the London shows, for example, range in price from about $150 to $1,500, which has prompted more than a few complaints. The band has defended the prices, saying that they’re doing a large-scale show with only five audiences to cover the production costs. “We’ve already spent a million on rehearsing in Paris,” guitarist Ronnie Wood told The Telegraph recently. “And the stage is going to be another few million. And the lights. We feel no bad thing about ticket prices. We’ve got to make something.”
The rock ‘n’ roll businessmen also expect to make something from a pay-per-view broadcast of the sold-out December 15 show in Newark, along with sales of a new illustrated autobiography called The Rolling Stones: 50 and a retrospective album called GRRR!, which comes in several editions ranging from the three-disc basic CD version to a five-disc vinyl boxed set. While promoting the album, all four members of the Stones agreed to be interviewed by Melissa Block of the NPR program All Things Considered. Block asked each of the Stones to pick one song from their extensive catalog to discuss. It’s an interesting series of conversations, and you can hear each one by following these links:
- Keith Richards: ‘These Riffs Were Built to Last a Lifetime’
- Charlie Watts on What Makes ‘Satisfaction’ So Satisfying
- Ronnie Wood’s Funky Contribution to the Stones’ Canon
- Mick Jagger on the Apocalyptic ‘Gimme Shelter’
The Rolling Stones Jam With Their Idol, Muddy Waters, 1981
The Rolling Stones Sing Jingle for Rice Krispies Commercial, 1964
The Rolling Stones Sing the Beatles’ ‘Eight Days a Week’ in a Hotel Room, 1965
The Rolling Stones at 50: Mick, Keith, Charlie & Ronnie Revisit Their Favorite Songs is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
Free Download: Hard Ton – Marilyn (Featuring Billie Ray Martin)
Free Download: Hard Ton – Marilyn (Featuring Billie Ray Martin):
Italian duo Hard Ton has teamed up with 90s one hit wonder Billie Ray Martin on a new single titled “Marilyn”, and is offering the track as a free download for the next week. The song really isn’t anything to write home about, but it’s nice enough. It is certainly more enjoyable than the solo stuff Billie Ray Martin has been putting out the past few years. Grab the free download while you can!
Italian duo Hard Ton has teamed up with 90s one hit wonder Billie Ray Martin on a new single titled “Marilyn”, and is offering the track as a free download for the next week. The song really isn’t anything to write home about, but it’s nice enough. It is certainly more enjoyable than the solo stuff Billie Ray Martin has been putting out the past few years. Grab the free download while you can!
lundi 19 novembre 2012
Watch The White Shadow, the Recently-Discovered and Earliest-Surviving Hitchcock Film
Watch The White Shadow, the Recently-Discovered and Earliest-Surviving Hitchcock Film:
We’ve hooked you up with 20 free Alfred Hitchcock movies online. We’ve written about Hitchcock, the new Anthony Hopkins-starring film that opens this week. Now we’d like to direct your attention dear Open Culture readers to The White Shadow. Even if you think you’ve seen every Hitchcock movie, you probably haven’t seen this one, given that its surviving elements only recently came to light. “Forget about that Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Anthony Hopkins that opens next week,” says the Hollywood Reporter. “Fans can watch another film with the famed director’s fingerprints all over it — the oldest one anyone could possibly see, in fact — starting today [ ... ] the earliest surviving feature credited to Hitchcock has begun a two-month run on the National Film Preservation Foundation’s website.” It comes to us as a project of the New Zealand Film Archive, whose efforts have made the film streamable here.
The catch: only three reels of The White Shadow survive. But that’s three more than cinephiles could enjoy before their sudden discovery last year. A fundraising drive drawing on Hitchcock enthusiasts the world over made possible the restoration and scoring of these reels, not to mention their online streaming availability through January 15, 2013. You’ll even get a suite of associated features, including notes by critic David Sterritt, a bio of salvager/projectionist Jack Murtaugh, and a slide show documenting the discovery of the film. But this is Hitchcock we’re talking about, and even though The White Shadow came only three years into his career and appears in a halved state, it still delivers his signature combination of atmosphere, suspense, and controlled sensationalism. Whether or not you also plan to see Hopkins play Hitchcock or have a 20-picture online Hitchcock marathon, enjoy, while you can, this partial Parisian tale of twin sisters, “one angelic and the other without a soul.”
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François Truffaut’s Big Interview with Alfred Hitchcock (Free Audio)
Hitchcock on Happiness
Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
Watch The White Shadow, the Recently-Discovered and Earliest-Surviving Hitchcock Film is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
We’ve hooked you up with 20 free Alfred Hitchcock movies online. We’ve written about Hitchcock, the new Anthony Hopkins-starring film that opens this week. Now we’d like to direct your attention dear Open Culture readers to The White Shadow. Even if you think you’ve seen every Hitchcock movie, you probably haven’t seen this one, given that its surviving elements only recently came to light. “Forget about that Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Anthony Hopkins that opens next week,” says the Hollywood Reporter. “Fans can watch another film with the famed director’s fingerprints all over it — the oldest one anyone could possibly see, in fact — starting today [ ... ] the earliest surviving feature credited to Hitchcock has begun a two-month run on the National Film Preservation Foundation’s website.” It comes to us as a project of the New Zealand Film Archive, whose efforts have made the film streamable here.
The catch: only three reels of The White Shadow survive. But that’s three more than cinephiles could enjoy before their sudden discovery last year. A fundraising drive drawing on Hitchcock enthusiasts the world over made possible the restoration and scoring of these reels, not to mention their online streaming availability through January 15, 2013. You’ll even get a suite of associated features, including notes by critic David Sterritt, a bio of salvager/projectionist Jack Murtaugh, and a slide show documenting the discovery of the film. But this is Hitchcock we’re talking about, and even though The White Shadow came only three years into his career and appears in a halved state, it still delivers his signature combination of atmosphere, suspense, and controlled sensationalism. Whether or not you also plan to see Hopkins play Hitchcock or have a 20-picture online Hitchcock marathon, enjoy, while you can, this partial Parisian tale of twin sisters, “one angelic and the other without a soul.”
Related content:
Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) Pitches Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johansson) on the Famous Shower Scene
22 Free Hitchcock Movies Online
Martin Scorsese Brings “Lost” Hitchcock Film to Screen in Short Faux Documentary
François Truffaut’s Big Interview with Alfred Hitchcock (Free Audio)
Hitchcock on Happiness
Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
Watch The White Shadow, the Recently-Discovered and Earliest-Surviving Hitchcock Film is a post from: Open Culture. You can follow Open Culture on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and by Email.
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