White Noise Reviewed by: Martin Gray Architect Jonathan Rivers is proving unable to rebuild his life after his novelist second wife Anna disappears. He mopes, he neglects his weekend son Mike, he moves into a truly soulless apartment (typical architect). He hangs on to the hope that her story isn't ove...
More old TV, and something you might call Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man. Miró: Theatre of Dreams is a documentary about the Spanish (or as he might have preferred, Catalan) artist Joan Miró. This was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, and again in 1984, but it’s one I hadn’t seen until now. Robin Lough’s film was the first television profile of the artist in which Miró talks at length with his British friend, Roland Penrose, an artist and writer who did much to champion Surrealism in its ea...
Interconnected A blog by Matt Webb About Archive Subscribe for $0 Email Feed (What is a feed?) Unoffice Hours Book a call (What is this?) Follow me on Twitter @genmon @intrcnnctd A science-fictional idea for a geo-scale, lacework power plant20.48, Tuesday 24 Jan 2023 Link to this postThe temperature difference across the U.K. yesterday (600 miles) goes from 11C in Scotland to -8C in the south east of England – a gap of 19C (34F). Which seems like a lot? Anyway I was wondering, if you could so...
Great animation, adorable critters, and the underlying thought-provoking themes at play make Sundance film The Amazing Maurice charming, if not amazing. I was able to chat with one of the directors, Toby Genkel, of the Sundance Film Festival 2023 pick, The Amazing Maurice. It’s a funny, wonderfully animated film that dangled some deeper, emotional themes. I talked to him about those elements, the difficulty of an adaptation such as this, the message he’s hoping viewers will take away, and ...
Cato Street conspiracy (idea) See all of Cato Street conspiracy, no other writeups in this node. The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to assassinate the entire British cabinet on the evening of the 23rd February 1820, an act that the conspirators believed would precipitate the revolutionary overthrow of the established order. The Background Many of the ideas unleashed by the French Revolution of 1789 found support across the channel in Great Britain. One of the leading English J...
BitcoinPac-Man FeverSliced bREADDogecoinD in 23B in 23Dawson CreekDawson ExposDolly Part: NoTrapPacification: HighUpdate: Great AwakeningIf you’ll allow me, I’d like to tell you the true history of the world.It’s not something to take lightly, because once someone starts to look at that world… that world will begin to look back at them!To know it you must know comms. With comms the invisible wonders and dangers become clear. No longer a sheep, but still you will have no power. Many choose to ...
The TWIN PEAKS Character Series surveys one hundred ten characters from the series Twin Peaks (1990-91 on ABC and 2017 on Showtime as The Return), the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), and The Missing Pieces (2014), a collection of deleted scenes from that film. A new character study will appear every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday although patrons will have immediate access to each entry a month before it goes public. There will be spoilers. • indicates passages added or...
Queen Victoria of Great Britain (r. 1837-1901) was one of the most loved of all Britain's monarchs. Her longevity, devotion to her role as figurehead of an empire, and recovery from the death of her beloved husband Prince Albert won her a unique status as the ever-present symbol of 19th-century Britain, an era of tremendous political, industrial, and social changes. The last of the British Hanoverian monarchs, Victoria reigned for 63 years. She weathered the storms of life – outliving ...
His ultimate goal was to educate the schoolchildren of Russia with his "optical color projections" of history.Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminateIntroductionThe photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world—the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads and factories of an emerging industr...
His ultimate goal was to educate the schoolchildren of Russia with his "optical color projections" of history.Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminateIntroductionThe photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world—the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads and factories of an emerging industr...
ASFTINDA Group Read W4 - Greatly Exaggerated by platykurthttps://feedly.com/i/entry/P/ZZhFmXtA9tEUnZDlC7kl/RCexJKbwIxXOoERYd4Ig=_186046520cd:136f3ae:e07de6e4Greatly Exaggerated is an unassuming book review of HL Hix's "Morte d'Author: An Autopsy" that surprisingly contains an important key to Wallace's workWallace sounds dismissive. He writes, "For those of us civilians who know in our gut that writing is an act of communication between one human being and anothe...
Vladimir SorokinTranslated by Max LawtonNew York Review Books ($18.95) by Garin Cycholl They say that those who live by the nail will probably die by the nail—that is, unless the nail is made of tellurium, set by a member of a guild of highly skilled technicians, and driven into one’s skull in a ritual that identifies the exact fold of the brain where the sharp, rare metal can awaken insight. That insight is the rub of Max Lawton’s newly released translation of Vladimir Sorokin’s 2013 n...
http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781913505387?aff=RainTaxiEva BalthasarTranslated by Julia SanchesAnd Other Stories ($17.95)by Abby Walthausen New arguments are always popping up these days for the dubious title of the "first globalization"—phenomena as disparate as the spice trade, the crusades, the whaling industry. Catalan novelist Eva Balthasar (or perhaps the wry galley cook who narrates her newly translated novel) might get a kick out of extending the rebrand to boulders, which were, aft...
Tenniel, illus. from Alice in WonderlandNote: If you wish to receive, via e-mail, (1) my weekly newsletter or (2) daily copies of these posts, notify me at rrbates1951 at gmail dot com and I will send it/them to you. I promise not to share your e-mail address with anyone. To unsubscribe, send me a follow-up email.Friday – Lewis Carroll’s BirthdayIn honor of Lewis Carroll’s birthday—he was born on January 27, 1832—I repost an essay I wrote nine years ago when I was teaching the Alice books in ...
Mukundan Unni Associates (2022): A discussion of Shakespeare adaptations isn’t exactly a "thing" right now, thanks to his oeuvre covering most (if not all) plot points and the fact that few films aren’t Shakespearean in some way. We have reached a point where a film’s (or any text’s) similitude to one of his plays falls flat. Now it is easy to overlook – for lack of a better word – the late British playwright’s (whose authorship is still contested by conspiracy theorists and obstinate Marlowe...
Among the many bees in my professional bonnet is the issue of canon formation: how some works become singled out as being of particular value and worthy of preservation and perpetuation through subsequent generations. The mechanisms of canon formations are usually shared by whatever type of art we are talking about, whether it is pictorial art, the art of writing, or the art of music. There are several factors that can contribute to a work's entry into a given canon, and there are also severa...
This Star Wars article contains spoilers for The Bad Batch. Clone Force 99 is back in action, and while we know season 2 of Dave Filoni’s Star Wars: The Bad Batch is building toward a unified adventure, the first crop of episodes has taken the anthology approach by splitting up our characters and sending them off on their own arcs. But on top of throwing new challenges at our heroes, The Bad Batch‘s latest episode, "Faster," also improves on an idea originally used in George Lucas’ most d...
Last week I saw M3GAN, the new horror-comedy starring Allison Williams and a robot-doll in a blond wig. I liked it enough. The doll character is genuinely well-done—a seemingly hard-to-nail mix of creepy and campy—but I walked out of the theater with a vaguely empty feeling. I couldn’t quite place it until I started talking with my friends about where the movie was set, and I realized I had no idea. One answer is somewhere in Silicon Valley, given its bald critique of big tech. It didn’t actu...
Last week I saw M3GAN, the new horror-comedy starring Allison Williams and a robot-doll in a blond wig. I liked it enough. The doll character is genuinely well-done—a seemingly hard-to-nail mix of creepy and campy—but I walked out of the theater with a vaguely empty feeling. I couldn’t quite place it until I started talking with my friends about where the movie was set, and I realized I had no idea. One answer is somewhere in Silicon Valley, given its bald critique of big tech. It didn’t actu...
The original version of this tale was a short story, "Broncho Billy and the Baby", which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1910 and was the basis for an Essanay short film of the same name. The short story is credited as the basis for Kyne’s later novel ‘The Three Godfathers’ in 1913; an online version is dated 1916 and would seem no longer than the original story. Set in Arizona, the basic plot has a gang of bank robbers stumble on a covered wagon where a dying woman entrusts her ba...
Baybayin Alive Navigation Menu Esoteric Meanings of the YHWH Tetragrammaton and Bathala & Bahala Baybayin Posted on Feb 20, 2012 in ancient symbols, BA, HA, interpretations, LA, parallels It is not uncommon for letters, pictographs and symbols to have deep hidden meanings—even magical power, for cultures around the world have rich histories and stories connected to symbols, letters and written words. Oth...
FQ -1917SourceURL: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/new-trailer-1917-shows-world-war-i-youve-never-seen-70671 Task and Purpose Security, Watch it here. It looks like World War I is finally getting the major motion picture treatment it deserves, and it's about damn time. The new trailer for 1917 just dropped, and it's two minutes of chaos, fear, and confusion as we follow soldiers on the Western Front through trenches, underground tunnels,...
de·noue·ment /ˌdāno͞oˈmäN/ denouement noun the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. "the film's denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous" Also, it is the official name of the game rock paper scissors, which was invented in China
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJordan Peele has finally given fans an explanation for one of the most widely debated moments in his 2022 horror film Nope.The film focuses on two siblings, played by Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, who encounter a strange UFO near their ranch in Agua Dulce, California.One of the other plot threads follows Ricky "Jupe" Park, a former child actor who once s...
Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) is the prototype for the Rue Morgue murders’ deducer, Auguste Dupin. He’s a legendary, retired police detective, asked to solve a death at the West Point military academy in wintry upstate New York. The suicide verdict of Dr Marquis (Toby Jones) is swiftly altered to ritual murder then followed by a second, with hearts carved out of hanged bodies. Landor enlists cadet Poe (Harry Melling) to infiltrate the academy’s Bullingdon Club-like elite of entitled, bully...