Ziad Shihab

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Scene of the Crime Stephen Broomer

April 8th, 2021

Art & Trash, episode 9 Louise Bourque: Scene of the Crime Stephen Broomer, April 8, 2021 Please note that this video contains stroboscopic imagery. Louise Bourque began to make films in the late 1980s as a student at Concordia University in Montreal. Since the mid-1990s, Bourque’s films have dealt with plastic manipulation of the film plane, in the form of scratches, chemical alteration, contact printing, and tricks of time affected by way of optical printing. Scene of...

New Philip K. Dick book collection showcases author’s “paranoid but joyful” world

April 8th, 2021

La Boca, an illustration-focused studio based in Amsterdam and London, has designed a new four-volume book collection that celebrates the short stories of Philip K. Dick. The collection is the result of a partnership between the late author’s estate and illustrated book publisher The Folio Society and features all 118 of his short stories. La Boca has previously worked with the publisher. Publishing director Tom Walker says the studio has a "leftfield approach" which is "conceptual, exp...

10 of the Best Poems about Magic and the Supernatural

April 8th, 2021

Poetry and magic share a curious history, since shamans and priests of ancient times would chant verses and incantations as part of their rituals designed to heal the sick, influence the weather, or appeal to the gods. So we might even say there is something peculiarly ‘magical’ about poetry. Below, we introduce ten of the very best poems about magic and the supernatural, featuring witches, black magic, fairies, ghosts, and much else. 1. William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night...

Focus Features acquires Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance drama ‘Silent Twins’

April 8th, 2021

Focus Features has taken worldwide rights to Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska’s (The Lure) English-language debut Silent Twins starring Letitia Wright from Black Panther and Tamara Lawrance from Kindred. Andrea Seigel adapted the screenplay from Marjorie Wallace’s novel The Silent Twins, about June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twins from the only Black family in Wales in the 1970s who dealt with a hostile community by only communicating with each other. The sisters retreate...

4 Great Sources Students Can Use For Writing An Academic Paper On Ancient Rome

April 8th, 2021

By Amanda Dudley The Roman Empire spanned several centuries and has had a major influence on the world at large. As such, there is a huge chance that you may find yourself in a situation where you are required to write a paper on Ancient Rome society. But where exactly do you get your sources from? Even though movies and fictional novels can offer a good idea of what ancient Rome looked like, they aren’t reliable sources as they are usually based on someone’s creative imagination. ...

A Short Analysis of Lewis Carroll’s ‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’

April 7th, 2021

‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’ is a poem by Lewis Carroll, one of the two acknowledged masters of Victorian nonsense verse (along with Edward Lear). Although the poem is among his most popular, after ‘Jabberwocky’, ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’, and The Hunting of the Snark, its curious origins are less well-known. Before we offer a few words of analysis about the poem, it might be worth recapping the words to ‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’, a poem of two stanzas. How Doth the ...

Untitled (https://vimeo.com/512698497)

April 7th, 2021

[link ] Beauty In The Disturbance is an audiovisual essay which deals with the materiality of the film medium and its possibilities of transformation not only of the image itself but also of the meanings within the image. Created under the supervision of Jiří Anger. Department of Film Studies, Charles University in Prague. 2021 For study purposes only.

Why, Exactly, Was Captain America Commanded to Wank?

April 7th, 2021

In the grand library of Marvel comic books, Captain America #366 isn’t really all that special. Published in 1990, the comic mostly featured Cap squaring off with a robot, like he’s done in countless other comic books. However, one panel from this issue has become a particular favorite online, because, thanks to the placement of a sound effect, it kind of looks like Captain America is receiving a very specific — and horny — instruction. As Screenrant has previously explained, the...

Behind whose eyes? Why we love a jaw-dropping twist ending

April 7th, 2021

During the initial episodes of the glossy new Netflix thriller Behind Her Eyes, there’s a sort of polite familiarity to it. Oh, it’s this show with these characters spouting this kind of dialogue, a slick domestic saga of secrets, lies and oversized glasses of expensive white wine, the kind that’s proliferated tenfold both on page and on screen since the explosive arrival of Gone Girl. That’s not necessarily a bad thing – it’s sexy and well-acted and propulsive enough to keep us clicking on t...

The 10 Most Influential American Movies of The 1980s

April 7th, 2021

Though the 1970s are often heralded as the greatest decade in American film history, the 1980s established a more longstanding influence on the actual future of film. The ‘80s film landscape continued the trend of blockbusters introduced in the late ‘70s while setting up the breakthrough of independent film in the ‘90s. It also brought on bold changes to mainstream cinema that feel just as visceral and groundbreaking to auteurs and aspiring filmmakers today. The fun popcorn movie made a bi...

Grief and Redemption in “The Bone Maker”

April 7th, 2021

Attention! "The Bone Maker" by Sarah Beth Durst contains the following: women working and fighting together, practicing the forbidden arts, heroes reuniting years later, poisonous stone fish, and bone-powered machines. Durst unleashes her imagination to its fullest potential, and her latest high fantasy novel is no exception. Kreya steals human bones to resurrect her deceased husband Jentt. She’s been finding a way to make him alive for longer than a day. Once a commander during ...

A Summary and Analysis of T. S. Eliot’s ‘Ulysses, Order, and Myth’

April 7th, 2021

‘Ulysses, Order, and Myth’ is the title usually given to T. S. Eliot’s review of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Eliot’s short review was published in The Dial magazine in 1923, and can be read here; below, we offer a few words of analysis of this influential essay by one major modernist writer, about the work of another major modernist writer. 1922 was the annus mirabilis or ‘year of wonders’ for modernist literature. James Joyce’s Ulysses had appeared in book form in February of that year (to ...

Guest Post: 'Save the Five: Meeting Taurek’s Challenge'

April 7th, 2021

[My thanks to Zach Barnett for writing the following guest post...] At its best, philosophy encourages us to challenge our deepest and most passionately held convictions. No paper does this more forcefully than John Taurek’s "Should the Numbers Count?" Taurek’s paper challenges us to justify the importance of numbers in ethics. Six people are in trouble. We can rescue five of them or just the remaining one. What should we do? This may not seem like a difficult question. Other things e...

Novels and Medicine

April 7th, 2021

How can reading novels affect the way doctors and patients communicate? Featuring: Jay Baruch, M.D. & Rishi Goyal, M.D. When a patient enters the emergency room, they may be experiencing one of the most dramatic moments in their life story. For the doctor, it may be one of many cases they’ll encounter that day. How does narrative affect the way doctors treat patients? And how can reading novels help medical providers navigate the "narrative disaster zone...

Otherway’s grocery-inspired Weezy branding is decidedly untechy

April 6th, 2021

Weezy is still a relative newcomer to the world of food delivery, launched towards the end of 2020 with the promise of super-speedy food shops that arrive via electric moped, 15 minutes after they’re ordered through the app. Groceries are sourced from a mix of wholesalers and local independent businesses, including bakers and butchers, and delivered in plastic-free bags. Currently the service is only available in London, although there’s talk of Weezy eventually expanding to other cities i...

Why I Don’t Publish Under My Husband’s Name

April 6th, 2021

A letter arrived for my birthday addressed to another woman. Despite years of marriage, my family forgets I never changed my name. With a consistency that’s a bit baffling, they often address letters to me with my husband’s name. Like many anachronistic episodes that occur between generations, they wrote a check to me once with this other woman’s name. I had to ask them to send it again, reminding them the bank will not recognize the name with my account.  I’ve reminded them and I know the...

What’s the Difference?

April 6th, 2021

A phoneme is the smallest bit of language that makes a difference. Making a difference is just what phonemes do. They make one word different from another. In English, for example, the difference between the phonemes /p/ and /b/ makes "pin" different from "bin", "pat" different from "bat", "tap" different from "tab", and so on and so on. A phoneme doesn’t mean anything in itself—/p/ doesn’t mean anything until it becomes part of "pin" or "pat" or "tap" or whatever. Its job is not to mean anyt...

The Tarot Is a Chameleon

April 6th, 2021

Leonora Carrington, Playing Tarot, ca. 1995, graphite and gouache on paper, 22 x 36 1/4″. Private collection. © Estate of Leonora Carrington / ARS, New York. "With a mysterious smile on her lips," writes the Chilean film director Alejandro Jodorowsky, "the painter whispered to me, ‘What you just dictated to me is the secret. As each Arcana is a mirror and not a truth in itself, become what you see in it. That tarot is a chameleon.’ " This comes from Jodorowsky’s The Book of Tarot; th...

“The Serpent” Doesn’t Cut It

April 6th, 2021

Over the last two nights I’ve slogged through seven episodes of The Serpent, a limited BBC One / Netflix series about notorious serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who murdered between 20 and 24 young tourists during 1975–1976. Directed by Tom Shankland and Hans Herbots and co-written by Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay, it’s an annoying, patience-testing, spirit-draining chore… it plods along and never ends. It makes you feel like you’re lifting weights. Tahar Rahim plays Sobhraj, an ic...

I thought of you

April 5th, 2021

Back on 3/16, I was honored by not one, but two, Facebook postings on the theme "this made me think of you". From Michael Palmer, a flyer for the 1897 mammoth opening of the swimming season at the Sutro Baths in San Francisco (MP: for "Arnold Zwicky, because mammoth", alluding to my attachment to creatures of the genus Mammuthus). And from Livia Polanyi (alert to my writing on gender and sexuality), 1940 gender adventures in Dallas: hunky male  car hops in shorts and cowboy boots. ...

One Thousand and One Blog Posts

April 5th, 2021

Because evolution has given human beings ten fingers, most of the time, we use a ten based positional value number system, in which the positions are powers of ten. This also means that we have a strong tendency to note, to acknowledge and even to celebrate the points when lists or collections reach multiples or powers of ten. For example, we tend to think that somebody’s fortieth birthday is more significant than their thirty-ninth or forty-first. We also make a big deal with major celebrati...

NINJABABY (2021) ‘SXSW’ Review: A Charming, Smart Take on Pregnancy and Coming-of-Age

April 4th, 2021

Share this Article In the process of childbirth, it’s not only a baby, an infant, who is born. With a child is born a mother, her new experiences, her new quandaries and a new state of mind altogether. Art hardly depicts this emotional construct with confidence: however, Norwegian filmmaker Yngvild Sve Flikke breaks the ice in her film Ninjababy, a constantly surprising character drama about the mental turmoil inundating pregnancy and childbirth, and how people often review themselves an...

In Memory of Roger Ebert: Films About Connection

April 4th, 2021

Every year, on April 4th, the day that Roger Ebert died in 2013, we give the site back to the man who made it. This year, in honor of the incredible time in which the world finds itself, we thought we’d focus on times that Roger wrote about connection and rebirth—two things that we are all in desperate need of in April 2021. There are certain filmmakers who seem to be regularly interrogating how we connect with one another, and we chose some of Roger’s favorites by those directors, including ...

Babel

April 4th, 2021

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." — George Bernard Shaw Even more separated are cultures that do not share languages, values, frames of reference, or physical realities. "Babel" weaves stories from Morocco, America, Mexico and Japan, all connected by the thoughtless act of a child, and demonstrates how each culture works against itself to compound the repercussions. It is the third and most powerful of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s trilogy of films in ...

Reinforced Perspective: Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View (1974)

April 4th, 2021

By Jeremy Carr. Pakula adopts an accordingly striking compositional tension throughout the picture, isolating portions of the frame and dwarfing individuals in an abstract expanse, suggesting both a voyeuristic perspective and an unnerving environmental apprehension." It might be hard to imagine now, but there was a time when being a tad on the paranoid side meant you were in the know and may actually be on to something. While today such conspiracy-minded thinking has been largel...