I've always admired the traditions and achievements of Greek cinema and when I was in film school in NY I remember S. Kapsaskis' films and enjoyed them very much. It's too bad he made so few. This is a long overdue tribute to his work and to an illustrious father.
Everett
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A fine and fitting tribute to a life well lived. Thanks Andrea.
Les Marcott
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Freaks
I am part of the proverbial choir Andrea Kapsaski is preaching to in her recent article, Living in Los Angeles, I am surrounded by and bombarded with this region's collective consensus of what beauty is and it saddens me. Besides the stereotypes of peroxide blondes with big boobs, no butts, pouty lips and bones protruding from skin, there is the insidious overtone that if a woman doesn't have a similar look to a mass produced Barbie doll, a twisted plastic surgeon's version of Huxley's Gamma-Delta-Epsilon, she has no worth. Individuality, unique imperfections, character lines... these are not embraced by American culture. If only there would come a day when women are taken for who they are and not how they look, when skin color is no longer a divider, when people who don't fit societies "normal" aesthetic are made to feel part of the herd and not outside of it, and intelligent compassionate thought is cherished and praised over shallow physicality. Ah, a beautiful freak can dream!
Lia Beachy
Thank you for writing about the exhibit at the Belgravia. This is such a lovely sampling of such wonderful painting. I wish that Scene4 would publish more about the art world and especially about representational art. It does indeed thrive amidst the preponderance of that which passes for modern art.
Anee S. Waterson
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Photographer Josef Koudelka's work is moving and penetrating; personally, photographic-wise, and as historical evidence. Many thanks Andrea for giving us the opportunity to catch up to our memories and remind us of what it means to be free.
Ned Bobkoff
They burn down your city and you sit at the TV and watch the news, while outside, a few steps away from your home, the riots continue. And they take pictures and small videos on their mobile phones to send them to YouTube and you wonder about your own responsibility while the cradle of democracy falls apart. As I listen to the helicopters flying over our house, how little did I know when I wrote this article. How little difference in those pictures back then and the photos now. How little history changes.
Andrea Kapsaski
Why do people not see the dramatic or historical irony in using violence and chaos as a way of protesting violence and injustice? How relevant Andrea Kapsaski's article about Prague has become in light of the recent events in Athens! And how sad that mankind seems doomed to repeat the cycle of violence as an answer for its problems! Methinks that infamous Jewish carpenter would take issue. Merry Christmas, indeed!
Lia Beachy
Thanks for this well-written and unvarnished view of how American capitalism markets and pollutes everything, right on with Michael Moore's running "love story." I was there back then, but I won't be there now.
Marianne Andreasson
I too feel, just like Peter, that this event is a burn of many talents of local musicians and BOOTs gets the $$$.
Pete Slauson
Most Jews in Germany are recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union plus a small number of Jewish families from Muslim countries. According to the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland) ca. 120,000 individual members are officially registered with a total of 107 Jewish communities, but of course not everyone is registered and I have read statistics surpassing the 200.000 number That means, that Germany has the third-largest Jewish population in Western Europe after France (600,000) and Great Britain (300,000) and the fastest-growing Jewish population in Europe in recent years. One could indeed argue if Germany is indeed the safest country for Jewish people. Is there a safe country? Denying the Holocaust is a crime in Germany and is punishable by three months to five years in prison, but does that make Jewish life any better or safer?
Andrea Kapsaski
A remarkable occasion, this the 90th year of the great ballerina. I first saw her many years ago in New York. She was astonishing whether one knew she was nearly blind or not. She represents all that is great about dance and what perseveres in the greatness of Cuban culture. Thank you for the remembrance.
Louis Laird
As you predicted and as reported:
"Alicia Alonso accepted the sold-out audience's adoring ovation at the Metropolitan Opera House from a central box seat before Thursday night's American Ballet Theatre performance. But one sensed that this legendary ballerina, being saluted by the company with an evening to celebrate her 90th birthday, would find her way to center stage, and she did, culminating the boisterous, rousing event."
And what an event that was.
Louis Laird
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