Jeffrey St. Clair

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

Oui! The scenes of the great quarry at Versailles (filmed in 65, I think) looked more convincing to me than anything done with CGI. — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

Now that the Criterion app works (knock wood), it's on the 16 hours of Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz! — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

I know he liked the idea of Loach, but his films were a little late for Alex, whose cinematic tastes were firmly lodged in the 50s and 60s. (Except for the films of his niece, every one of which he adored.) — PolitiTweet.org

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fashion plate with mommy issues. The film is very compact. In 90 minutes it swiftly moves from the death of Mazarin, the crushing of the Fronde, the rise of Colbert & his new economic system, the mistresses, the building of Versailles & the isolation of the clergy & aristocracy — PolitiTweet.org

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the film was a lucious as Alex claimed. In fact, the first thing which struck me was beautiful and lush cinematography of the film. Aside his great film on India, color wasn't something I'd associated with Rossellini. Louis, himself, is somewhat comically presented as a puny... — PolitiTweet.org

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Alex's taste in films was not always reliable, since he and his brothers considered themselves lifetime members of the Happy Enders Club. He wasn't one for tragedy on the big screen. The Sun King's fate, of course, was quite different from his nephew, Louis XVI and ... — PolitiTweet.org

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After two fruitless weeks, I finally got our not-so-smart TV to synch with the Criterion App and the first film I watched was one that Cockburn repeatedly chided me for not having seen: Rossellini's The Taking of Power of Louis XIV, which he contended was one of the best ever... — PolitiTweet.org

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Alex and I wrote about it briefly in Whiteout and also in a pre-internet story called 7 Things You Can't Say About the CIA. — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

Didn't FoxNews spend about 5 years claiming that homeless vets were a myth? — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @jeff_kaye: Just a reminder: It was a Democratic President that put an Asian-originated people — Japanese-Americans — into internment ca… — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @DiazCanelB: #Cuba 🇨🇺 agradece al hermano gobierno de Namibia 🇳🇦 por la nominación del contingente Henry Reeve al Premio Nobel de la Paz… — PolitiTweet.org

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Far Tortuga — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

I liked Midnight's Children and his first novel Grimus (a weird fantasy novel), but little since then... — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

I thought Satanic Verses was almost unreadable: boring, ponderous, and bloated. The Fatwah made it a bestseller, but one which I bet few people finished, as is so often the case. — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

Snow was probably the best trombone player in the Bush White House... — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @SusanofTexas: During the Iraq invasion, Sullivan called people traitors if they were against the war. A lot of conservatives saw 9/11 a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JulieWark: My latest for CounterPunch (with Daniel Raventós) https://t.co/DMYm2ILTiQ How Indonesia uses sexual violence to grab land fo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LouisProyect1: @JSCCounterPunch This was based on Tim Brennan's new bio. I knew Brennan when he was in the YSA, the SWP's youth group,… — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

You mean the Musee Montmartre? Yes, I went there & then spiraled down the hill past Satie's house, the garrett where Vincent & Theo lived, & Tristan Tzara's modernist house designed by Adolf Loos. It was a hot day & I got trashed on Kronenbourg 1664s at a bistro near the cemetery — PolitiTweet.org

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Next thing you know, he'll be spraying Round-Up on pot-smoking staffers... — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @OttenbergEve: Just in case you thought Biden came to his senses & would stop pushing Plan Colombia, here he is, advocating for aerial f… — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

When we were last in Paris, I spent 3 days wandering the cemeteries: Montmartre, Pere Lachaise, Montparnasse, which was well-stocked with dead heroes. Going thru my photos I came across my favorite gravestone, just a few aisles from Jean-Paul & Simone, the film director Sautet: https://t.co/oDvtkwhEwy — PolitiTweet.org

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Yet another scurrilous hit piece on Edward Said. They keep coming about once a week now, many of them from the same folks praising the enlightened teachings of Dr. Seuss... https://t.co/Mst5Auv5yi — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

The notion that someone like Noam Chomsky (because he supported Obama or Biden for tactical reasons) is worse than a right winger is both ludicrous and incredibly naive about the actual political dynamics at work in the US. — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

It's a pretty broad brush you're using to smear the Left. I for one resent it & I never supported Obama. There are some neo-Nazi cops right here in PDX beating up "toxic Leftists" nearly every night that you & Taseen might want to break bread with. Let me know how that works out. — PolitiTweet.org

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great news (and cover) @ellehardy! Can you have the publisher put CounterPunch on the review list? — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

I don't know about "much more toxic." I see this all the time about how the Left is worse than the right. But I really don't think Taseen would want to run into the likes of Roberto D'Aubuisson or Rios Montt in a dark alley.... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnMuirProject: There is a common denominator in all the large blazes—wind- as weather & climate influence fire behavior. Chainsaw med… — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

I was looking at FLW, Neutra and Lautner houses in the H Hills and thought I'd find the place where George's friends couldn't find him. I kept winding up and up, following Siri's often confusing instructions, until voila. I left the sign... https://t.co/vKxKQSTRGi — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @jeff_kaye: .@JonathanTurley tried to correct his faulty history (see attached photo), but tries to spin “eat the rich” to the French Re… — PolitiTweet.org