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barcarole · 3 years

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Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise (trans. Munir Akash, Carolyn Forché, with Sinan Antoon and Amira El-Zein).

#Mahmoud Darwish #Palestine #Palestinian Literature #Literature

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barcarole · 3 years

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Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief (يـومـيـات الـحـزن الـعـادي), 1973

#Mahmoud Darwish #Palestine #Palestinian Literature #Literature

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barcarole · 4 years

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[Inside Monk’s House, East Sussex.]

#Monk's House #Virginia Woolf #Leonard Woolf #Bloomsbury Group #Literature #English Literature

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barcarole · 4 years

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Richie Powell, George Morrow, Clifford Brown, Harold Land, and Max Roach in NYC, 1954. Photo by Herman Leonard.

#Jazz #Richie Powell #George Morrow #Clifford Brown #Harold Land #Max Roach

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barcarole · 4 years

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What movies are in the picturer of the "kind of aesthetic"? Just the ones from the pictures.

Row 1: Cries and Whispers, Death in Venice, The Sacrifice. Row 2: Color of Pomegrantes, Three Colors: Blue, Fellini's Roma. Row 3: Senso, Le Bonheur, Edvard Munch.

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barcarole · 4 years

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What are your favorite Arabic poems, if you have any?

These are some of my favorites:

An Ocean Without Shore, Ibn ‘Arabi

Fragment from Al-Buhturi’s Wolf

From the Luzumiyat of al-Ma’arri

From the Diwan of al-Ma’arri

Reality, Rabia al-Basri

Love, Rabia al-Basri

The Enchanter of Dust: Psalm, Adonis

The Wound, Adonis

I Pray Behind My Shadow, Bahija Massri Adelbi

The Spirit Bows to the Will of Love, Munir Mezyed

The Manner of Sand, Mahmood al-Braikan

Exculpation, Khalil Mutran

Revolt Against the Sun, Nazik al-Mala’ika

Myths, Nazik al-Mala’ika

Who am I?, Nazik al-Mala’ika

A Stranger at the Gulf, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

An Alphabetical Formation, Faraj Bayraqdar

A couple of fragments from Sanieh Salh

Sorrows of the Black City, Muhammad al-Fayturi

Shadows, Wadih Sa’adah

The Strange Grief, al-Shabbi

A Storm in the Dark, al-Shabbi

A Body, Al-Saddiq al-Raddi

Annihilation, Muhammad Afifi Matar

Fragments from ‘Quartet of Joy’, Muhammad Affifi Matar

Mural, Mahmoud Darwish

We Will Choose Sophocles, Mahmoud Darwish

Clouds, Ounsi el-Hajj

Smoke Bloom, Nadia Anjuman

Boat to Lesbos, Nourri al-Jarrah

Your body is my map, Nizar Qabbani

#Ask #Arabic Literature #Literature #Arabic Poetry #Poetry

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barcarole · 4 years

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I can only stand here like a child and wonder and rejoice in silence when I'm out on the nearest hill, and down from the ether come the heights stepping closer and closer into the friendly valley whose slopes are thick with the evergreen of fir woods and whose floor is seamed through with lakes and streams, and that's where I live, in a garden, where under my window, willows and poplars stand by a clear water. I love to listen to at night when all is quiet and beneath the serene starry sky I write and think;

Friedrich Hölderlin in a letter to Heinrike Breunline, 23 February 1801 (from Essays and Letters, trans. Charlie Louth).

#Friedrich Hölderlin #German Literature #German Poetry #literature

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barcarole · 4 years

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Hello, what are your favourite animated films?

Tale of Tales, Hedgehog in the Fog, The Battle of Kerzhenets, The Fox and The Hare, Howl’s Moving Castle, Only Yesterday, Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, The Tales of Prince Achmed, 10-minute Mozart, The Three Wishes, Cybernetic Grandma, The Hand, Perfect Blue, A Country Doctor, Angel’s Egg, Asparragus, Fehérlófia, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The Man Who Planted Trees, Jumping, Fantasia, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland, Watership Down, Cages, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Rusalka (Petrov), When the Wind Blows, The Flying House, Labyrinth, Composition in Blue, Comet in Moominland, A Charlie Brown Christmas, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Inspirace, Institute Benjamenta, The Snow Queen, Windy Day, The Snow Maiden, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Polygon, Sirene, Legends of Peruvian Indians, Roman de Renard, Le Poulette, The Monkey King, Tyll the Giant, Hell, A Night on Bald Mountain, The Seasons of the Year (Ivan Ivanov-Vano), Toptyzhka, Rooty Toot Toot, Dead Time, The Pied Piper (Barta), Sirene, Laughter and Grief by the White Sea, The Wind in the Willows (1995), The Mighty River, Ballerina on the Boat, Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty, Feelings from Mountain and Water, Castle in the Sky…

#Animated #I might be missing some #But these are the ones I remember most #Ask #Cinema

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barcarole · 4 years

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On Dangerous Ground, dir. Nicholas Ray, 1951.

#On Dangerous Ground #Nicholas Ray #Cinema #American Cinema

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barcarole · 4 years

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Marguerite Duras, No More (trans. Richard Howard).

#Marguerite Duras #Literature #French Literature

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barcarole · 4 years

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Сталкер (Stalker) , dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979.

#Andrei Tarkovsky #Tarkovsky #Anatoli Solonitsyn #Cinema #Russian Cinema #Stalker #Сталкер

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barcarole · 4 years

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Marguerite Duras in 1955 by Robert Doisneau.

#Marguerite Duras #Robert Doisneau #Literature #Cinema

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barcarole · 4 years

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Сталкер (Stalker) , dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979.

#Andrei Tarkovsky #Stalker #Anatoli Solonitsyn #Nikolai Grinko #Alexander Kaidanovsky #Cinema #Russian Cinema #Soviet Cinema #Tarkovsky #Сталкер

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barcarole · 4 years

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Anatoli Solonitsyn, Margarita Terekhova, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Oleg Yankovsky during rehearsals for Tarkovsky’s Hamlet at the Lenkom Theatre, 1976.

#Anatoli Solonitsyn #Margarita Terekhova #Andrei Tarkovsky #Oleg Yankovsky #Hamlet #William Shakespeare #Russia #Cinema #Theatre

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barcarole · 4 years

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Maisons au bord de la rivière, Maurice de Vlaminck, 1908.

#Maurice de Vlaminck #Art

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barcarole · 4 years

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Mifune had a kind of talent I had never encountered before in the Japanese film world. It was, above all, the speed with which he expressed himself that was astounding. The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed only three feet. The speed of his movements was such that he said in a single action what took ordinary actors three separate movements to express. He put forth everything directly and boldly, and his sense of timing was the keenest I had ever seen in a Japanese actor. And yet with all his quickness he also had surprisingly fine sensibilities. I know it sounds as if I am overpraising Mifune, but everything I am saying is true. [...] Anyway, I’m a person who is rarely impressed by actors, but in the case of Mifune, I was completely overwhelmed.

— Akira Kurosawa on Toshirō Mifune, Something Like an Autobiography (trans. Audie E. Bock).

#Toshirō Mifune #Toshiro Mifune #Akira Kurosawa #Kurosawa #Cinema #Japanese Cinema

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barcarole · 4 years

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Autograph manuscript of the chorus of Part II of Rachmaninoff's Kolokola (The Bells), Op. 35, c. 1936.

#Sergei Rachmaninoff #Music

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