Dialogic Cinephilia - February 8, 2017

Dresser, Sam. "How Camus and Sartre Split Up Over the Question of How to Be Free." Aeon (January 27, 2017) [I've been going through similar disagreements the last week and been discussing these philosophers with students. I guess my biggest problem in regard to the former "disagreements" is how can those that believe they are fighting for social justice, and resisting authoritarian tendencies, become/be proponents of dogmatic absolutism and willfully ignorant of abuses/terrors in the histories of their own particular ideologies (and in their present incarnations).]

Foreign Language Film nominees Oscars 2018 [While everyone is rushing to the theater to see the Oscar nominees for the major awards, my attention always immediately goes to the Foreign Language Film nominees and to where I can find them (because they are not in the Bluegrass). I have seen The Square, but I do not think it is on the level of Oslund's previous film Force Majeure. A Fantastic Woman and The Insult (from the trailers) are the ones I wish I could see immediately.]

















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