tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8336443096754844886..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Where Is the House of the Friend?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71394366868253452562015-03-04T07:00:07.856-08:002015-03-04T07:00:07.856-08:00By the by, is it just me, or does Sabzian, the non...By the by, is it just me, or does Sabzian, the non-actor whose haunting performance in Close-Up is so real it's hardly a performance at all, not bear a striking resemblance to the Sohrab Sepehri we have seen in photographs??<br /><br />That gaunt, grave, suffering face, old beyond its years.<br /><br />(Sepehri died at 51, of leukemia.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69306889803309279372015-03-04T06:54:35.115-08:002015-03-04T06:54:35.115-08:00And you know it's supposed to be a secret that...And you know it's supposed to be a secret that Bibi has plenty of nuclear capability of his own, instantly at his disposal -- a Los Alamos technician was fired for saying so, but did anybody ever have doubts?<br /><br />The casual disrespect he and his team on the ground bestowed upon, in particular, Obama and Susan Rice -- odd coincidence, both schwarzes, and you know those apartheid believers are famously colour blind -- must qualify the Beebster as the rudest guest ever.<br /><br />When his team and the Christian right are singing the same song, no one dare utter a peep, because, we're meant to know, names are being taken.<br /><br />Not that art matters overmuch in such a world, but if it's creative capabilities that were to define power, the cinema of Iran would qualify it as a superpower.<br /><br />In reality, meanwhile, the dogged and resolute Israeli approach to dealing with people who make you nervous -- that is, eliminate them altogether -- which has been seen with Gaza as well as Iran, sets one to thinking of how that strategy has worked in the past. <br /><br />Having a whole people hate you, and having their children hate you, and their children's children, can't be a restful thing, so that the leap of purpose from merely resenting an opponent to entirely obliterating them becomes, by a strange logic, inevitable -- and how better effect the deed than have somebody else not only finance it but carry it out, under the aegis of Operation Running Sore, or whatever name is picked this time.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19392616595138962732015-03-03T13:33:58.077-08:002015-03-03T13:33:58.077-08:00Always makes me chuckle - Bibi harping on about nu...Always makes me chuckle - Bibi harping on about nuclear capabilities.<br /><br />You will be swallowed up/ by fear transparent as water - I think I know the taste of that.<br /><br />Every word of the poem a refusal of that dull brute will to certainty.<br /><br />You make me want to go back to Kiarostami's films. Haven't seen anything by him in an age.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-12866646951940811292015-03-03T13:32:47.442-08:002015-03-03T13:32:47.442-08:00lovely images...!lovely images...!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com