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• Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations
• Films (and stills from the films) analyzed
• Installation art-works analyzed
• Obituaries
• Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
• Photographic art and posters analyzed
• Poetry analyzed
• Psychology of religious belief
• Reviews of Films
• Sociological essays
• Theatrical productions analyzed

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  • Discussion and Mind-Probing (877)
  • Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations (41)
    • A Shot about A Suspicious Spot – How Staining Your Identity Can Make You a Hero – From Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Spider’s Stratagem” (1970) (1)
    • An Odd Ode to The Human Goddess Camille (Who, It Seems, Needs A Camel for A Husband) – From Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt/Le mepris” (1964) (1)
    • “Wise Young Girl” (Julie Delpy) In “Detective” (1985) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • Being Victimized By Socio-economic Anomie Under The Banner Of Profit-making Energetically Moved By Entrepreneurial Wind – From Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Il Grido/The Cry” (1957) (1)
    • Blending Of Identities Refreshes A Monotonous Life – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodes’kaden” (1970) (1)
    • Buddha-like Head Of The Family: The Keeper Of The Hearth’s Fire Alive – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodeskaden” (1970) (1)
    • Childishness And Cowardice Of A Macho Personality – Macho Sissies In Life, In Politics And In History From Tennessee Williams/Elia Kazan’s “Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) (1)
    • Duchesse de Guermantes And Charles Swann Feel Themselves Before Death – From Volker Schlondorff’s “Un Amour de Swann/Swann In Love” (1984) (1)
    • For Abel Rosenberg, Hero of Ingmar Bergman’s “Serpent’s Egg” (1977), To Insert A Billion Mark Banknote Into the Mouth of a Barman Is Just a Healthy Joke (1)
    • Glauce (King Creon’s daughter) Is A Victim Of Medea’s Violent Magic – Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Medea” (1969) (1)
    • How A Sublime World of Metaphors And Symbols Crowns And By This Transubstantiates The Earthly Love – Volker Schlondorff’s “Swann in Love” (1984) (1)
    • Imagination vs. Being (The Spiritually Pauperized Architect And His Doomed Son) – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodes’kaden” (1970) (1)
    • Jean-Luc Godard and Audrey Klebaner’s Psychological Etude of a Young Woman’s Encounter With Love. – From “In Praise of Love” (2001) (1)
    • Laius, Jocasta (Silvana Mangano) And Their Son Oedipus – From “Oedipus Rex” (1967) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • Little Johan Meets The Hotel Room Service Attendant (Hakan Jahnberg) – From Ingmar Bergman’s “The Silence” (1963) (1)
    • Luis Bunuel’s “That Obscure Object of Desire” (1977) – The Eternal Duel-Duo Between Its Majesty-Money and Human Nature (1)
    • Marcel-the Writer And Marcel-the Boy During WWI – From Raul Ruiz’s “Time Regained” (1999) (1)
    • Maurice Pialat’s “Van Gogh” (1991) – Vincent and Marguerite’s Brief Eternity (1)
    • Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow Up”, 1966 – Pure Sexual Desire As Infantile Sexuality, While Love Starts as An Existential Drive Towards Another Person (1)
    • Petra and Karin – Their Creative Enterprise, their Love And Inequality – From “The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant” (1972) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • Preparation For War: Vicious (In All Too Human Way) Battle For Domination – From Ronald Neame’s “Tunes of Glory” (1960) (1)
    • Retarded Boy Rokkuchan As A Demiurge Of Technological Civilization – From “Dodes’Kaden” (1970) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • Right-wingers Today and Judaist Clergy In Christ’s Times On The One Hand, And Liberal Democrats Today And Pontius Pilate In Christ’s Time , “The Messiah”, By Rossellini (1)
    • Sugar-taste, Sugar-dream, Sugar-dreaming, Sugar-excitement, Sugar-prosperity, Sugar-destructiveness – From Dušan Makavejev’s “Sweet Movie” (1974) (1)
    • Surrealist Imagery As The Film-director’s Expressive Tool – The Shot Is From “Chinese Roulette” (1976) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • The Art Of Meaningful Composition Of A Shot – From “Lili Marleen” (1981) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • The Body Of Truth And The Body Of Glamour – From “Hour of the Wolf” (1968) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • The Film-director Is Challenging the Deceitful Narratives Of Historical Events – From Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Spider’s Stratagem” (1970) (1)
    • The Internal Power To Resist Abusive Treatment Grows Together With The Very Experience Of Resistance From Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander” (1981) (1)
    • The Knight Of Love – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodeskaden” (1970) – Is Betrayal Of Love A Spiritual Betrayal? (1)
    • The Role Of “Bizarre” Visual Images As An Intellectual Stimulation Of The Film-viewers – From Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers” (2003) (1)
    • The Use Of “Gaze Aside Without Verbalization” In Cinema – Examples From “Medea” (1969) And “Oedipus Rex” (1967) By Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • Three Phases Of Human Relationship With Death – From “Time Regained” (1999) By Raul Ruiz (Film Based On Marcel Proust’s Novel) (1)
    • Three Positions Towards Death (Of Those Who Personally Feell Distant From Death’s Touch) – From Maurice Pialat’s “The Mouth Agape/The Slack-Jawed Mug” (1974) (1)
    • To Become Ontologically Authentic Personality (Complex Of Sublime Selfhood) Or To Share Life With Others – Jean-Luc Godard’s “Vivre sa vie/My Life To Live” (1962) (1)
    • Trivial Sex As A Gift From Destiny – From Maurice Pialat “The Mouth Agape” (1974) (1)
    • When Intense Idealistic Belief “Massively” Collapses – From “Salome’s Last Dance” (1988) By Ken Russell (1)
    • When Life Is the Occupation with Technology And Financial Rivalry – From “Sisters, Or The Balance Of Happiness” (1979) By Margarethe Von Trotta (1)
    • When People On Tops Of Social Hierarchy Stopped To Be Reliable/Respectable – From “The Discreet Charm Of Bourgeoisie” (1972) By Luis Bunuel (1)
    • When Youthful Intelligent Vitality Becomes Incompatible With the Conditions of Spiritual and Physical Survival – Robert Bresson’s “Devil Probably” (1977) (1)
    • Young People’s Psychological Condition according To Akira Kurosawa’s “Sanjuro” (1962) (1)
  • Films (and stills from the films) analyzed (133)
    • Akira Kurosawa (9)
    • Alain Resnais (10)
    • Alain Tanner (2)
    • Alexander Kluge (1)
    • Anne-Marie Mieville (1)
    • Barbet Schroeder (1)
    • Bernardo Bertolucci (6)
    • Bertrand Tavernier (1)
    • Chantal Akerman (1)
    • Claude Berri (1)
    • Claude Miller (1)
    • Claude Sautet (1)
    • Dušan Makavejev (1)
    • Elia Kazan (1)
    • Federico Fellini (2)
    • Francois Truffaut (1)
    • Gerard Mordillat (1)
    • Helma Sanders-Brahms (1)
    • Ingmar Bergman (10)
    • Jacques Demy (1)
    • Jean Cocteau (1)
    • Jean Delannoy (1)
    • Jean-Luc Godard (12)
    • Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (2)
    • John Huston (1)
    • Joseph Mankiewicz (1)
    • Ken Russell (2)
    • Kenji Mizoguchi (1)
    • Liliana Cavani (1)
    • Louis Malle (2)
    • Luchino Visconti (2)
    • Luis Bunuel (3)
    • Margarethe von Trotta (2)
    • Marguerite Duras (3)
    • Maurice Pialat (3)
    • Michelangelo Antonioni (3)
    • Mike Nichols (1)
    • Moshe Mizrahi (1)
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini (6)
    • R.W. Fassbinder's Films With Gunther Kaufmann (2)
    • Radu Gabrea (1)
    • Rainer Werner Fassbinder (15)
    • Raul Ruiz (1)
    • Rene Clement (1)
    • Robert Bresson (4)
    • Roberto Rossellini (3)
    • Ronald Neame (1)
    • Stanley Kramer (1)
    • Strong Males’ Four Basic Tasks (1)
    • Sydney Lumet (1)
    • Volker Schlondorff’ (2)
    • Werner Herzog (3)
    • Wim Wenders (2)
    • Yasujiro Ozu (1)
  • Installation art-works analyzed (10)
    • Bob Trotman (1)
    • Chen Shaoxiong (1)
    • Hemispheric Dome – Architectural Discourses With People (With Existence) And With “Gods” (With Metaphysical Essences) (1)
    • Judith Peck (1)
    • Meret Oppenheim (1)
    • Olafur Eliasson (1)
    • Robert Rauschenberg (3)
  • Obituaries (16)
    • Alain Resnais (1)
    • Alice Miller (1)
    • Audie Murphy – A Bressonian Actor In American Western (!?!) (1)
    • Bruno Cremer (1)
    • Bruno S. (1932 – 2010) (1)
    • Claude Miller (1)
    • Erland Josephson (1)
    • Günther Kaufmann (1)
    • Howard Zinn (1)
    • Jean Laplanche (1)
    • Leo Steinberg (1)
    • Michael Jackson (1)
    • Raul Ruiz (1)
    • Theodore Roszak (1)
    • Walter Schmidinger (1)
  • Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed (212)
    • Alberto Giacometti (5)
    • Albrecht Durer (2)
    • Amedeo Modigliani (2)
    • Andre Derain (1)
    • Andy Warhol (1)
    • Arno Braker (1)
    • Auguste Rodin (1)
    • Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola) (2)
    • Barry X Ball (2)
    • Bob Trotman (2)
    • Caravaggio (1)
    • Chaim Soutine (3)
    • Claude Monet (1)
    • Constantin Brancusi (3)
    • Dorothea Tanning (2)
    • Edgar Degas (2)
    • Edouard Manet (5)
    • Edvard Munch (2)
    • Edward Hopper (7)
    • Egon Schiele (8)
    • El Greco’ (1)
    • Emil Nolde (18)
    • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (5)
    • Fernando Botero (1)
    • Francis Bacon (2)
    • Francis Picabia (3)
    • Francisco Goya (2)
    • Frantisek Janousek (1)
    • George Grosz (7)
    • Giorgio de Chirico (5)
    • Giovanni Angelo del Maino’s (1470-1536) “Saint John The Evangelist” (1520-30) (1)
    • Giovanni Battista Moroni (1)
    • Gustav Courbet (1)
    • Gustav Klimt (3)
    • Hans Bellmer (2)
    • Henri Rousseau (1)
    • Henry Matisse (5)
    • Henry Moore (2)
    • Honore Daumier (1)
    • Jacob Epstein (3)
    • Jacques Louis David (1)
    • James Enzor (2)
    • Jean Dubuffet (1)
    • Joan Miro (4)
    • John Heartfield (1)
    • Joseph Mankiewicz (1)
    • Judith Peck (1)
    • Jules Bastien-Lepage (1)
    • Karl Hubbuch (1)
    • Kathe Kollwitz (2)
    • Kazimir Malevich (2)
    • Leonardo Da Vinci (1)
    • Leonora Carrington (1)
    • Lucas Cranach (2)
    • Lucian Freud (1)
    • Man Ray (4)
    • Marcel Duchamp (3)
    • Marcel Janco (2)
    • Marino Marini (1)
    • Mary Cassatt (1)
    • Max Beckmann (9)
    • Max Ernst (14)
    • Oscar Dominguez (2)
    • OsKar Kokoschka (2)
    • Otto Dix (6)
    • Pablo Picasso (11)
    • Paul Cezanne (1)
    • Paul Delvaux (2)
    • Paul Gauguin (3)
    • paul klee (4)
    • Pierre-August Renoir (1)
    • Pieter Breughel (1)
    • Rene Magritte (6)
    • Roberto Matta (3)
    • Salvador Dali (1)
    • Sofonisba Anguissola (1)
    • Thomas Hart Benton (3)
    • Victor Brauner (4)
    • Vincent Van Gogh (eight self-portraits) (1)
    • Wifredo Lam (2)
    • Willem de Kooning (1)
    • William Aiken Walker (1)
    • Wolfgang Paalen (2)
  • Photographic art and posters analyzed (30)
    • A Call Back to Pre-democratic America: (1)
    • Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels As One Person (1)
    • Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Photos of Goebbels (1)
    • Disappointed in mortals… (1)
    • Dora Maar (10)
    • Germany, Pale Mother (1)
    • Humanity of the Psychological Frankensteins (1)
    • John Heartfield (1)
    • Photo Of A Group Of Schoolboys With Ludwig Wittgenstein And Adolf Hitler In Their Early Adolescence Amongst Them (1)
    • Playing Cards With the Young Boys (1)
    • Propaganda Posters (2)
      • Italian Fascist Propaganda Poster – Totalitarian Lesson To Democracy And Democratic People (1)
    • Rag-picker in Paris, 1901 (1)
    • The Gaze of a Righteous Murder (1)
    • The Mother Of Child Psychoanalysis And A Prolific Author Melanie Klein As An Exemplary Master Of Empathy (1)
    • The Psychology of Pet Owning (1)
    • What Childhood Photos of Churchill and Hitler Can Teach Us? (1)
    • Why Bishops Attend A Nazi Public Event? (1)
    • Will Beauty Save the World? (1)
  • Poetry analyzed (40)
    • Alfred de Vigny (1)
    • Allen Ginsberg (1)
    • Ezra Pound (2)
    • Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 1936) (1)
    • Harold Pinter’s Poem “American Football” (A Reflection Upon The Gulf War)” (1)
    • Henri Michaux (1)
    • Jacques Prevert (1)
    • Marina Tsvetaeva (17)
    • Octavio Paz (2)
    • Oscar Wilde (1)
    • Pablo Neruda (1)
    • Paul Celan (2)
    • Paul Eluard (1)
    • Paul Valery (1)
    • Pier Paolo Pasolini (1)
    • Rainer Maria Rilke (1)
    • Rene Char (1)
    • Robert Frost (1)
    • Theodore Roethke (2)
    • Wallace Stevens (1)
  • Psychology of religious belief (19)
    • Alfred de Vigny (1)
    • Allen Ginsberg’s Poem “Everyday” (1)
    • “The Messiah” (1975) by Roberto Rossellini (review) (1)
    • “Through Glass Darkly” (1961) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “Winter Light” (1962) by Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “Winter Light” by Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • Belief – Its Versatile Contents and its Psychological “Form” (1)
    • Belief in God as a Psychological Defense (1)
    • Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • Emil Nolde’s “Resurrection” – Nolde’s Interpretation of Christ’s Resurrection Contradicts The Ideas Of Early Christians (1)
    • Giovanni Angelo del Maino’s (1470-1536) “Saint John The Evangelist” (1520-30) (1)
    • Giovanni Battista Moroni’s (1520–1579 ) “A Gentleman in Adoration Before the Baptism of Christ” (1555–1560) (1)
    • In Vain, With My Eyes As With Nail (1)
    • Proud Sinners As Good Christians (1)
    • Roberto Matta (1)
    • The Magic Helpers (1)
    • The Religious Sin of Pious Complacency (1)
    • Why Catholic Bishops Attend A Nazi Public Event (1)
  • Reviews of Films (150)
    • "Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” (1972) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • "Einstein" (2008) by Liliana Cavani (1)
    • "Nazarin" (1959) by Luis Bunuel (1)
    • "Sanjuro" (1962), by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • "Time Regained" (TR) by Raoul Ruiz (1999) (1)
    • ”Il Grido/The Cry” (1957) By Michelangelo Antonioni (1)
    • “35 Shots of Rum” (2008) By Claire Denis (1)
    • “A Flame in My Heart” (1987) By Alain Tanner (1)
    • “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) by Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams (1)
    • “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul” (1973) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • “Alice in the Cities” (1974) By Wim Wenders (1)
    • “And the Ship Sails On” (1983) By Federico Fellini (1)
    • “Au Hazard Balthazar” (1966) And “Devil Probably” (1977) By Robert Bresson (1)
    • “Autumn Sonata” (1978) By Ingmar Bergman (1)
    • “Baxter, Vera Baxter” by Marguerite Duras (1977) (1)
    • “Berlin Affair” (1985) by Liliana Cavani (2)
    • “Berlin Alexanderplatz” (1980) By Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • “Bless the Beast and Children” by Stanley Kramer (1971) (1)
    • “Burmese Harp” (1957) by Kon Ichikawa (1)
    • “Casanova” (1976) by Federico Fellini (1)
    • “Chinese Roulette” (1976) by R.W. Fassbinder (1)
    • “Clara Schumann” (2008), by Helma Sanders-Brahms (1)
    • “Confessions of Police Captain to the District Attorney” (1971) by Damiano Damiani (1)
    • “CONFORMIST” (1971) By Bernardo Bertolucci (1)
    • “Contempt/Le mepris” (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • “Cuentame Como Paso” (“Tell Me How it Happened”) by Miguel Angel Bernardeau (1)
    • “Death in Venice” (1971) by Luchino Visconti (1)
    • “Dersu Uzala” (1975) by Akira Kurosawa (1)
    • “Despair/Journey Into Light” (1978) by Rainer-Werner Fassbinder (1)
    • “Destroy, She Said” (1968) by Marguerite Duras (1)
    • “Detective” (1985) by Jean-Luc Godard (1)
    • “Diary of the Country Priest” (1951) By Robert Bresson (1)