Category Archives: Paris

French New Wave

Posted on December 1, 2019 by

François Truffaut “New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) is a French film movement which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. It is a form of European art cinema, and is often referred to as one of the most influential movements … Continue reading →

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Internationale Situationniste in English

Posted on September 14, 2019 by

“The Situationist International(SI) produced the journal Internationale Situationniste between 1958 and 1969. It functioned as the movement’s main organ, and over 12 issues its pages documented the evolution of Situationist theory, the members’ thoughts on everyday life, and the internal/external … Continue reading →

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La Chinoise – Jean-Luc Godard (1967)

Posted on August 17, 2019 by

“La Chinoise (‘The Chinese’) is a 1967 French political film directed by Jean-Luc Godard about young extremists in Paris. La Chinoise is a loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky‘s 1872 novel Demons. In the novel, a group of five disaffected citizens, … Continue reading →

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Cléo from 5 to 7 – Agnès Varda (1962)

Posted on August 6, 2019 by

“Cléo from 5 to 7 (French: Cléo de 5 à 7 [kle.o də sɛ̃k a sɛt]) is a 1962 French Left Bank film by Agnès Varda. The story starts with a young singer, Florence ‘Cléo’ Victoire, at 5pm on June … Continue reading →

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Theatre of the Absurd

Posted on July 28, 2019 by

On the occasion of West Berlin Festival Weeks the workshop of Schiller theatre will give “Fin de Partie” of Samuel Beckett. … Left Ernst Schroeder (Hamm), right Horst Bollmann (Clov). September 26. 1967, Berlin, Germany “The Theatre of the Absurd … Continue reading →

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Student protest

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

Harvard Strike – Over the span of two weeks in April of 1969, Harvard students who were diametrically opposed to the Vietnam War and its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presence on campus kicked up a string of demonstrations. “Student protest … Continue reading →

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Beat Hotel

Posted on July 21, 2019 by

“The Beat Hotel was a small, run-down hotel of 42 rooms at 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur in the Latin Quarter of Paris, notable chiefly as a residence for members of the Beat poetry movement of the mid-20th century. It was a ‘class … Continue reading →

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