Soundstream PCS.57N Picasso Full-Range Speakers (5 x 7)
Soundstream PCS.57N Picasso Full-Range Speakers (5 x 7)
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Paris Was a Woman In the early decades of the 20th century, Paris was the undisputed artistic capital of the world. Cultural titans Gertrude Stein, Colette, Djuna Barnes, painter Marie Laurencin, publishers and booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and New Yorker journalist Janet Flanner (not to mention Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso and James Joyce) were all part of the between-the-wars Left Bank inner circle. Utilizing groundbreaking research, newly-discovered home movies and intimate storytelling that intertwines interview with anecdote, this award-winning documentary re-creates the mood and flavor of a unique female artistic community who flocked to the City of Lights during its most magical era. This Edition features rare home movies of Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Picasso.
Customer Review: Could have been longer?
I think it’s quite fascinating to look at a time when most of us weren’t even thought of. The world of Paris for women brought new challenges to reinforce their equality. Of course, most of the women here led complicated love lives mostly with each other in the literary salons of Natalie Clifford Barney and Gertrude Stein. The deleted scenes are worth noting the relationship between Ernest Hemingway who was actually Gertrude’s gopher. While they were some of the smartest women including the legendary Janet Flanner, they still had remarkably difficult love lives on the side. We only see a portion of their lives. This documentary actually focuses in between wars. Don’t think they had it all easy. Alice B. Toklas was left penniless by the Stein family. Alice was cared for by Catholic nuns because of her plight. Nancy Clare Cunard died alone in a Paris hospital. Djuna Barnes became a Greenwich Village recluse. Janet Flanner had three women who vyed for her love. Solita Solano was her partner in living and work. Noel was her American lover in French countryside where she spent summers and weekends in Orgeval and of course, she ended her life with the only woman who was able to care for her. That woman was NAtalia Danesi Murray and I think Janet’s true love was Paris itself. It allowed you to grow and nurtured these expatriates. It was nice to see Dr. Gisele Freund. Although the clips with Shari Benstock could have looked more professional, any it’s worth the price.
Customer Review: Superb! Brings women artists and their era to life
Greta Schiller’s award-winning documentary Paris Was A Woman (1995) explores the extraordinary women, many of whom were lesbian or bisexual, in the Left Bank’s thriving cultural scene between the wars. Through Schiller’s exceptional filmmaking, and Andrea Weiss’s brilliant?research and screenwriting, we come to know the living, complex women who so often stand only as cultural icons: novelists Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Colette, Natalie Barney, painter Marie Laurencin, photographer Gisele Freund, publishers/booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, New Yorker journalist Janet Flanner, singer Josephine Baker, and many others. Schiller also looks at their connection to the male artists of the time, including Picasso (whom Stein discovered and promoted), Joyce (who drove Beach to bankruptcy when she published his then-illegally obscene masterpiece, Ulysses), and Hemingway (who began as Stein and Toklas’s errand boy; we see - and hear - his stylistic debt to Stein).
In a mere 75 minutes, with a spellbinding use of archival photos and film footage, Schiller manages to recreate the mood and flavor of this unique community of women who came to The City of Lights (and Love) from the U.S., England, and every corner of the world. This inspired, and moving, film brings to life their passion both for the arts and for a freedom in their personal lives which still resonates today.
We also get to know the less well-known, but no less fascinating, women of this enclave, who gravitated to the famously different salons of Stein (witty and cerebral) and Barney (wild and sensual). The film draws on groundbreaking research, newly-discovered home movies (there is nothing like actually seeing and hearing Gertrude Stein, both in her public and private personas), and intimate storytelling that combines interviews with the people who lived then (Barney’s spry housekeeper of 40 years, Berthe Cleyrerque, is unforgettable, as is Janet Flanner) with contemporary scholars (whose brief remarks, sprinkled throughout the film, are illuminating rather than pedantic). Time and again, Schiller and Weiss manage to find exactly the right photos, footage, and sound clips to reveal these women in their complexity as flesh and blood people who in some cases - such as Stein - shaped the course of modern culture.
Paris Was A Woman is not only superb history, it is also inspired filmmaking. Schiller, who edited as well as directed and co-produced, uses the energy of narrative flow, balancing of viewpoints, juxtaposition of the intellectual and revealingly anecdotal, structural use of period music, and delicious humor to bring alive this world in cinematic, and human, terms.
The DVD, from Zeitgeist, includes many excellent supplemental features, including the complete home movies which were excerpted in the film plus additional footage (of Stein, Toklas, Colette, Picasso, Thornton Wilder, poet Paul Valery, and more), two entire sequences cut from the film (one on Stein and Joyce, the other on Hemingway, Stein & Toklas), and dozens of archival photographs (depicting the lives of the women - one memorable split photo shows Colette dressed as a man on one half and as a woman on the other, as well as their paintings, Djuna Barnes’s own hand-colored drawings from her 1928 book The Ladies Almanack - which satirized her fellow lesbian literati, and much more).
I highly recommend this exceptional film!
Pablo Picasso
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