looking for a juicy read?: 'love, terror, and an american family in hitler's berlin' is set in 1933 & focuses on the american ambassador & his daughter, martha who managed to get up close & personal with a few high rolling nazi's /commies
watch/listening to a documentary on brian eno, 'the man who fell to earth', while doing some print-work.
i've gone from the sparkles, outer-space, & oboe solos of roxy music- to the aural-space of another green world...my favourite.(i love eno &all, but bryan ferry... what a fox.)
my library pick for this week was the fascinating documentary on henri langlois: 'phantom of the cinematheque'. so good!
'... for 40 years, henri langlois presided over the cinematheque francaise with absolute commitment & unwavering passion.beginning in 1936, langlois' beg, borrow & steal hustling preserved the priceless treasures of an artform then still too new to be recognized as such. through ad hoc screenings in paris apartments, hallways & stairwells, the young langlois shared his love for film art with the enthusiasm of an aesthetic epicure. under nazi occupation, langlois went underground rescuing & secretly screening banned films under the noses of the s.s. during the calcyon 60's langlois battled bureaucrats, championed auteurs, & ushered in a new golden age of cinema..."
