Danny Lyon films on DVD

Posted by dektol on June 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

The complete films are now available on DVD for purchase with Pay Pal. Most are $29. Institutional purchase is $100. Scenes from each film are now live at bleakbeauty  http://www.bleakbeauty.com/film.html

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Juan’s Children Stay in Amerika

Standard · Posted by dektol on June 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

It is not often that we awake to good news from our government. Like Lincoln with the Emancipation Proclamation, President Obama has given protection from deportation to a million young immigrants inside our borders, most of them Mexicans. And he did it from within a government, that other than killing people and collecting taxes, hasn’t … Continue reading →

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Juan Goes Home

Standard · Posted by dektol on April 21, 2012 · 3 Comments 

Reading the opening of Jean Paul Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew, he argues that Anti-Semitism (dislike of, avoidance of, negative table talk about, hatred of, and extermination of Jews – he wrote this in 1947) was a Passion, not an Opinion. An Opinion is “You can’t trust Jews”, “They didn’t serve France in enough numbers in … Continue reading →

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