Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes

Clip source: Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoesSofia Coppola on whatever happened to the teenage dreamby Hugh Barnes Tuesday, 02 January 2024 Sofia Coppola knows a thing or two about teenage girldom. Like many of her other characters – in The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Somewhere and Marie Antoinette – the subject of her latest film, Priscilla Presley, is an ingenue living in a gilded cage and surrounded by lavish boredom. It hardly mat...

Cruel Frederick

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Story of Cruel Frederick (thing) See all of The Story of Cruel Frederick, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by e2reneta Thu Aug 17 2000 at 0:56:09 The first story in Hoffman's Struwwelpeter. This Frederick! this Frederick! A naughty, wicked boy was he; He caught the flies, poor little things, And then tore off their tiny wings; He killed the birds, and broke the chairs, And threw the kitten...

Containing Russia

Alexander Kluge, Russia Container, trans. Alexander Booth (Chicago: Seagull Books, 2022). 392pp., £27.50 hb., 978 1 80309 065 8Russia Container is not a book about Russia. It’s about the images and stories that East Germans had of Soviet Russia before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and after. Alexander Kluge wrote it ‘on commission’ by his sister Alexandra Kluge, who, unlike her brother, lived in the German Democratic Republic after the separation of their parents. There Alexandra learnt...

The Lull

"It’s a dead calm, isn’t it?" "It is, sir. But there’s something out of the common coming, for sure."—Joseph Conrad, Typhoon Nothing happens. A dull sea, the color of slate, mirrors the gray skies billowing above. The sun flickers through the mist, its pale disc begging for an appearance, like an old actor whose glory has passed. The wind has slackened. Any sense of direction and purpose has given way to aimless drift. Time seems to have come to a halt. Ennui builds—and yet, the stillness is ...