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'If Peaky Blinders made the Irish actor a household name, will Christopher Nolan’s nuclear blockbuster send him into the stratosphere? He talks about extreme weight loss, hating school and why his next character won’t be a smoker.
Cillian Murphy is struggling with what he can and can’t say about his title role in Oppenheimer, the latest Christopher Nolan epic, such is the secrecy surrounding this film. Murphy is under “strict instructions” not to talk about the content. Which is awkward when you’ve flown to his home in Ireland to interview him specifically about playing the physicist who oversaw the creation of the atomic bomb, later detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s not clear who issued these instructions. Nolan? The studio? The US government? All I know is that as well as Murphy being gagged by hefty NDAs, I am not allowed to see it (“bit unfortunate”, he concedes).
So, yes, here we sit in an empty upstairs room of a restaurant near his house in Monkstown, Dublin, working out how to do this. The room is dark, the sun shining through a solitary Velux lighting his features like a Géricault. The only background noise is the low hum of a wine refrigerator. Murphy loathes interviews, looks visibly tortured at points. But he relaxes when I ask if he’s pleased with Oppenheimer. “I am, yeah,” he says. “I don’t like watching myself – it’s like, ‘Oh, fucking hell’ – but it’s an extraordinary piece of work. Very provocative and powerful. It feels sometimes like a biopic, sometimes like a thriller, sometimes like a horror. It’s going to knock people out,” he adds. “What [Nolan] does with film, it fucks you up a little bit.”
Nolan wouldn’t disagree. The director recently told Wired magazine that some of those who’d seen it were left “absolutely devastated … they can’t speak”. Which sounds like a bad thing, but is related perhaps to the thought of the 214,000 Japanese people, overwhelmingly civilians, who lost their lives when the bombs were dropped. Kai Bird, the historian who co-authored American Prometheus, the 2008 biography of J Robert Oppenheimer upon which the film is based, said he was still “emotionally recovering” from seeing the film, clarifying that it was “a stunning artistic achievement”.
Murphy’s portrayal is said to be astonishing (“Oscar-worthy” is the buzz). This is not unbelievable. While Hollywood might not know him as a leading man, this quietly intense actor has long been celebrated in the UK and Ireland, most notably for his nine-year stint as Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. When he first appeared on our screens, looking like a renaissance painting of Saint Sebastian – chiselled head contrasting with translucent blue eyes – it was impossible not to be distracted. He appeared first on stage in Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs, then the screen adaptation. Then 28 Days Later; Intermission; Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Previous collaborations with Nolan include the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Dunkirk, “significant milestones in my career,” he says, adding that Nolan “might be the perfect director”.
It was Nolan’s wife, the producer Emma Thomas, who called Murphy one afternoon at the home he shares with his wife, artist Yvonne McGuinness, and two teenage sons. Nolan doesn’t actually have a telephone, or an email, or computer for that matter: “He’s the most analogue individual you could possibly encounter.” So, Emma said Chris would like a word and passed the receiver, then the director came on the line. “Cillian, I’d love you to play the lead in this new thing,” he said. Murphy tries to recreate his response to this news. “I was lost for words. But thrilled. Like beyond thrilled.” It is characteristic of Murphy that the modulation of his voice barely changes as he expresses this. He was so stunned, he had to sit down. “Your mind explodes.”
In the absence of the three-hour feature, I scrutinise Oppenheimer’s three-minute trailer. It’s a rush of snapshots against the crackling of a Geiger counter. There’s Murphy, short back and sides, lifting 1940s eye goggles; blue and red atoms coming at him fast; orange light; white light; blackout; silence. Massive explosion against the backdrop of space. Overlaid is Murphy’s narration, “We’re in a race against the Nazis / and I know what it means / if the Nazis have a bomb.” There’s Matt Damon looking porky as army general Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project: “They have a 12-month head start.” Murphy, pointing with cigarette: “18.”
He has put back on some of the weight he lost for the part, I’m relieved to see; his skin isn’t quite so taut over his skull and there are freckles over those eagle-wing cheekbones. He was determined to nail the scientist’s silhouette “with the porkpie hat and the pipe”, testing himself to see how little he could eat. “You become competitive with yourself a little bit which is not healthy. I don’t advise it.” He won’t say how many kilograms he lost, or what food the nutritionist told him to cut out. NDA? “Ach, no. I don’t want it to be, ‘Cillian lost x weight for the part’.”
Then again, the hurtling speed at which Nolan worked, crisscrossing the US, made it easy to skip meals. Murphy began to forget about food in the same way he began to forget about sleep. “It’s like you’re on this fucking train that’s just bombing. It’s bang, bang, bang, bang. You sleep for a few hours, get up, bang it again. I was running on crazy energy; I went over a threshold to where I was not worrying about food or anything. I was so in it, a state of hyper …” he gropes for the word, “hyper something. But it was good because the character was like that. He never ate.” Oppenheimer subsisted on little more than Chesterfield cigarettes and double-strength martinis, rims dipped in lime. “Cigarettes and pipes. He would alternate between the two. That’s what did for him in the end,” Murphy adds, a nod to the scientist’s death from cancer in 1967. “I’ve smoked so many fake cigarettes for Peaky and this. My next character will not be a smoker. They can’t be good for you. Even herbal cigarettes have health warnings now.”
I raise method acting and Murphy tilts his head and frowns. “Method acting is a sort of … No,” he says, firm but with a half smile. Oppenheimer had many defining characteristics, not least walking on the balls of his feet and a vocal tic that sounded like nim-nim-nim, but Murphy didn’t want to do an impression. Nolan was obsessed with the Brillo-texture hair, so they spent “a long time working on hair”. And the voice. The real question for Murphy was what combination – ambition, madness, delusion, deep hatred of the Nazi regime? – allowed this theoretical physicist to agree to an experiment he knew could obliterate humankind. “He was dancing between the raindrops morally. He was complex, contradictory, polymathic; incredibly attractive intellectually and charismatic, but,” he decides, “ultimately unknowable.
“Listen, it’s not like a spoiler,” he says, checking himself before he leans in, “but there are incidents in his early life that were quite worrying; very erratic.” They are in the film and the book, he steers. I suspect he is referring to Oppenheimer’s postgrad at Cambridge in 1926, when he placed a poisoned apple on the desk of a tutor towards whom he harboured complicated feelings of inadequacy and jealousy. Arguably, this was attempted murder. But Oppenheimer’s rich New York parents rushed in to bundle him into psychoanalysis. He was diagnosed with “dementia praecox”, a term describing symptoms associated with schizophrenia.
Murphy likes these complex characters; they’re his meat. People that don’t necessarily follow the – yawn – traditional transformative arc of storytelling. Not villains, exactly (although he’s played a few, including Scarecrow in Dark Knight and Jackson Rippner in Red Eye): “Villains are good if they’re well written, but if it’s one note or a trope, then they are dull.” He likes a script to stretch leisurely into all corners of the human condition, “all the shades”. At the same time, you have to understand his exceptional ability to portray interiority, physically manifesting intense human emotion without a word, radiating fierce, consuming energy. Which he does today, actually, when I stray off track.
Although Nolan is usually, shall we say, antiseptic in his approach to romance, Oppenheimer represents a significant shift. He told Wired the love story aspect “is as strong as I’ve ever done”. It features prolonged full nudity for Murphy and Florence Pugh, who plays Oppenheimer’s ex-fiancee, as well as sex, and there are complicated scenes with Emily Blunt, who plays his wife, “that were pretty heavy”. Murphy turns coy: “I’m under strict instructions not to give away anything.”
He asks if I’ve heard of chemistry tests. “They put two actors in a room to see if there’s any spark, and have all the producers and director at a table watching. I don’t know what metric they use, and it seems so outrageously silly, but sometimes you get a chemistry and nobody knows why.” This is a roundabout way of saying his scenes with Blunt and Pugh conjure this magic. His established bond with Blunt (they co-starred in A Quiet Place II) meant “the audience gets something for free”, he says. “You can be immediately vulnerable and open, and try stuff. There were moments where I remember saying, ‘I couldn’t have done that if it wasn’t with you.’”
Murphy, 47, grew up the eldest of four in Cork. His father was a civil servant, his mother a French teacher. They were a middle-class family, musical; his father “can pick up any instrument”, his brother played piano, and they regularly got stuck into “traditional Irish sessions”. Bookshelves were stuffed with literature, the radio often on, the “shitty” TV set not so much. Home life was busy but his parents taught him French and Irish, and sent him to an all-boys academic, rugby-playing private school. “I got all the education” he says, drily.
The story of how much he disliked the Presentation Brothers College, the hard-drinking masculine emphasis, how he found solace playing guitar in a band, is much rehearsed and he says today he doesn’t want “to slag the school off. I hear it’s great now.” Something about this experience seems nonetheless unsettling. He had one friend, who is still his best friend, “so I wasn’t, like, an outcast”. He played rugby for the first couple of years, but abandoned it “because everyone was all of a sudden towering over me.” Was it an unhappy time? He shifts. “It was OK. I was a bit of a messer, like I’d get in trouble and say nothing. It wasn’t the ideal school for me.”
He enrolled in and dropped out of a law degree at University College Cork, which created some friction with his parents (when I ask if his own sons will go to university in Dublin, he says, “Whatever they want”). He continued with the band, his first creative love but the one that got away. When they were offered a contract with Acid Jazz records, he turned it down for a number of reasons, he says, crucially that he didn’t feel good enough. He still writes and plays at home but, no, you won’t be hearing any of his recordings, ever, he says.
It’s a funny thing talking to Murphy. He’s at once garrulous (on the craft, or literature, or ideas) and reticent (pretty much anything else). I sense in previous interviews that he skates over issues close to his heart – such as the expression of emotion in Ireland and the need to teach empathy in schools. But when I try to drill in to these topics, get to the root, he clams shut, emitting energy like a nuclear reactor.
Later, in a different context, he will tell me a truth: “I’m stubborn and lacking in confidence, which is a terrible combination. I don’t want to put anything out that I don’t think is excellent.” But he clearly hates the pantomime of publicity, asking why I am returning to certain topics and repeating lines I’ve read elsewhere. I can almost see him at home with its views towards the Irish Sea, complaining to his wife as they tuck into supper: “Another one, asking the same fucking questions.”
If he could get out of going to Cannes, of standing on red carpets, dressed as is his habit for a funeral, hair shellacked, hands in pockets; if he could turn his back on the coloured-foam mics thrust in his face, he would. He really would. No, it dawns on him now, there’s something even worse than the red carpet; there’s the talkshow rounds. The very word “talkshow” comes out of him like a pain from his ribcage, as if the parcelling out of amuse-bouche anecdotes, offering them up to the forced laughter of that false god of show business, the studio audience, is in itself the most cheapening experience known to mankind.
“I do them because you’re contractually obliged to. I just endure them. I’ve always found it difficult. I’ve said this so many, many times.” Then there’s the double wince of realising that, yes, he’s done it again. He’s laid into the industry that feeds him. His hands raise slowly in surrender. “I want to just caveat this by saying, I’m so privileged. I’m so happy to be doing what I love. I’m really lucky. But I don’t enjoy the personality side of being an actor. I don’t understand why I should be entertaining and scintillating on a talkshow. I don’t know why all of a sudden that’s expected of me. Why?”
There’s an awkward silence. I say that he reminds me of Naomi Osaka, the tennis player who refused to talk to journalists after the French Open in 2021. He says he feels “100%” sympathy with her, “because why should she have to perform?” Then he relents. “But I get it. I get it’s a kind of ecosystem where the film feeds the publicity which feeds the talkshows which goes back and feeds the film, so, like, that’s how it works. I suppose I’m just not good at it. At interviews, at this stuff,” he gestures at me. He says after he leaves me today he’ll be going down the stairs thinking of all the things he’s said and worrying it’s come across all wrong. “Do you know what Sam Beckett said? ‘I have no views to inter.’ I love that. That should be the interview.”
We return to his art, the tension falls away and he’s back to his charming self, charged air evaporating. Since Oppenheimer, he’s also wrapped Small Things Like These, an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s brilliant novella set in 1985 in a small Irish town on the edge of which is a convent and “laundry”. Murphy is a huge fan of Keegan. He remembers reading her 2010 novel Foster on a train and having to pull his hoodie over his face because he was crying so hard. Anyway, he’d wanted to work with the Peaky Blinders director Tim Mielants and they were throwing ideas around in his sitting room when Murphy’s wife suggested Small Things. “No, there’s no way,” Murphy said. “That’s going to be gone already.” But when he called the agent, he found it was available. “I went, ‘No, you’ve got to be fucking kidding.’” Murphy pitched the idea to Matt Damon, who has set up a studio with Ben Affleck. “From there it all just happened really quickly.”
Murphy plays Bill Furlong who, funnily enough, is a man of few words. Keegan’s light-touch writing is everything he loves in art – the sense that you are not being bashed over the head by an idea. That’s how he tries to act, he adds. “I’m always trying to cut lines in scenes, because I feel like you can transmit it. Like when you see a person on a train thinking, or driving a car, and you are purely observing someone and feeling the energy that is vibrating from them. That’s the sort of acting I love. In a lot of film and television, they want to cut those bits to go to the action. I like films that pose the big questions and then leave it to the audience.” Perhaps this is at the heart of his reticence in interviews? That he doesn’t feel the need to explain.
He still finds it “nuts” that the last of the Magdalene laundries closed in 1996, that it was illegal to buy condoms in Ireland until 1985, that divorce was made legal only in 1996. He remembers vividly thousands of people still going to see moving statues in Cork when he was growing up. “Crazy. But, like, how far the country has come since then, we’re so socially advanced now compared with where we were. But you must look back. And art is a better way of doing that than reading all these reports [into the laundries].” (Afterwards, he emails me: “The nation is actually dealing with an unresolved collective trauma. Who knows how long this will take to heal, but I feel strongly that art, film and literature can help with that process. It’s a kinder and gentler sort of therapy. I hope that our movie can help with that in its own little way.”)
Because he’s a nice man, because he doesn’t want me to feel bad about our encounter, and because he’s generous and hospitable, Murphy finishes by telling me some of the best places to visit in Ireland. He and his family are staying here for the summer. They’ve had it with air travel and his home town of Cork is only a couple of hours away. He supplies me with other recommendations: a great book he’s just read, Brian, by Jeremy Cooper, oh, and there’s the Francis Bacon studio exhibition I should catch on my way out.
But before I go, what has he learned from playing Oppenheimer? Foremost, he says, that scientists think differently. He knew this already from playing physicist Robert Capa in Danny Boyle’s Sunshine (2007) and hanging out in Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, for research. “I had dinner with all these geniuses. I’ll never understand quantum mechanics, but I was interested in what science does to their perspective.” He sought their opinions on subjects that matter – love, politics, our place in the universe, “infinity, or whatever the fuck. Because they have a completely different way of taking in information than we do. I remember one scientist saying, ‘I don’t believe in love. It’s a biological phenomenon, the exchange of hormones between the female and the male. That’s all. Love is a nonsense.’” Murphy taps the table with his hand. “I couldn’t go along with that, obviously.”
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"Brian" at the BFI!!!
Just popping in today with a quick post about an event in London which might interest some readers! As you know, I’ve read and loved several books by Jeremy Cooper, published by Fitzcarraldo, the most recent being “Brian“; a wonderful work centred around the titular character’s love of film, it’s been quite a hit in the blogging world, and indeed generally.
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Brian (Jeremy Cooper, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023
A novel that is also work of criticism, BRIAN feels very English to me, kitchen-sinky even – loneliness and alienation enveloped in cold and damp; and whereas the French might have abstracted the material into some heroic philosophical struggle, here the attempt at connection and meaning are almost pointillist, every precise dot adding up to a larger picture; there’s something endearingly Barbara…
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full list of biden letter 2:
Aaron Bay-Schuck
Aaron Sorkin
Adam & Jackie Sandler
Adam Goodman
Adam Levine
Alan Grubman
Alex Aja
Alex Edelman
Alexandra Shiva
Ali Wentworth
Alison Statter
Allan Loeb
Alona Tal
Amy Chozick
Amy Pascal
Amy Schumer
Amy Sherman Palladino
Andrew Singer
Andy Cohen
Angela Robinson
Anthony Russo
Antonio Campos
Ari Dayan
Ari Greenburg
Arik Kneller
Aron Coleite
Ashley Levinson
Asif Satchu
Aubrey Plaza
Barbara Hershey
Barry Diller
Barry Levinson
Barry Rosenstein
Beau Flynn
Behati Prinsloo
Bella Thorne
Ben Stiller
Ben Turner
Ben Winston
Ben Younger
Billy Crystal
Blair Kohan
Bob Odenkirk
Bobbi Brown
Bobby Kotick
Brad Falchuk
Brad Slater
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Fischer
Brett Gelman
Brian Grazer
Bridget Everett
Brooke Shields
Bruna Papandrea
Cameron Curtis
Casey Neistat
Cazzie David
Charles Roven
Chelsea Handler
Chloe Fineman
Chris Fischer
Chris Jericho
Chris Rock
Christian Carino
Cindi Berger
Claire Coffee
Colleen Camp
Constance Wu
Courteney Cox
Craig Silverstein
Dame Maureen Lipman
Dan Aloni
Dan Rosenweig
Dana Goldberg
Dana Klein
Daniel Palladino
Danielle Bernstein
Danny Cohen
Danny Strong
Daphne Kastner
David Alan Grier
David Baddiel
David Bernad
David Chang
David Ellison
David Geffen
David Gilmour &
David Goodman
David Joseph
David Kohan
David Lowery
David Oyelowo
David Schwimmer
Dawn Porter
Dean Cain
Deborah Lee Furness
Deborah Snyder
Debra Messing
Diane Von Furstenberg
Donny Deutsch
Doug Liman
Douglas Chabbott
Eddy Kitsis
Edgar Ramirez
Eli Roth
Elisabeth Shue
Elizabeth Himelstein
Embeth Davidtz
Emma Seligman
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Eric Andre
Erik Feig
Erin Foster
Eugene Levy
Evan Jonigkeit
Evan Winiker
Ewan McGregor
Francis Benhamou
Francis Lawrence
Fred Raskin
Gabe Turner
Gail Berman
Gal Gadot
Gary Barber
Gene Stupinski
Genevieve Angelson
Gideon Raff
Gina Gershon
Grant Singer
Greg Berlanti
Guy Nattiv
Guy Oseary
Gwyneth Paltrow
Hannah Fidell
Hannah Graf
Harlan Coben
Harold Brown
Harvey Keitel
Henrietta Conrad
Henry Winkler
Holland Taylor
Howard Gordon
Iain Morris
Imran Ahmed
Inbar Lavi
Isla Fisher
Jack Black
Jackie Sandler
Jake Graf
Jake Kasdan
James Brolin
James Corden
Jamie Ray Newman
Jaron Varsano
Jason Biggs & Jenny Mollen Biggs
Jason Blum
Jason Fuchs
Jason Reitman
Jason Segel
Jason Sudeikis
JD Lifshitz
Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Rake
Jen Joel
Jeremy Piven
Jerry Seinfeld
Jesse Itzler
Jesse Plemons
Jesse Sisgold
Jessica Biel
Jessica Elbaum
Jessica Seinfeld
Jill Littman
Jimmy Carr
Jody Gerson
Joe Hipps
Joe Quinn
Joe Russo
Joe Tippett
Joel Fields
Joey King
John Landgraf
John Slattery
Jon Bernthal
Jon Glickman
Jon Hamm
Jon Liebman
Jonathan Baruch
Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Marc Sherman
Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Steinberg
Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan Tropper
Jordan Peele
Josh Brolin
Josh Charles
Josh Goldstine
Josh Greenstein
Josh Grode
Judd Apatow
Judge Judy Sheindlin
Julia Garner
Julia Lester
Julianna Margulies
Julie Greenwald
Julie Rudd
Juliette Lewis
Justin Theroux
Justin Timberlake
Karen Pollock
Karlie Kloss
Katy Perry
Kelley Lynch
Kevin Kane
Kevin Zegers
Kirsten Dunst
Kitao Sakurai
KJ Steinberg
Kristen Schaal
Kristin Chenoweth
Lana Del Rey
Laura Dern
Laura Pradelska
Lauren Schuker Blum
Laurence Mark
Laurie David
Lea Michele
Lee Eisenberg
Leo Pearlman
Leslie Siebert
Liev Schreiber
Limor Gott
Lina Esco
Liz Garbus
Lizanne Rosenstein
Lizzie Tisch
Lorraine Schwartz
Lynn Harris
Lyor Cohen
Madonna
Mandana Dayani
Mara Buxbaum
Marc Webb
Marco Perego
Maria Dizzia
Mark Feuerstein
Mark Foster
Mark Scheinberg
Mark Shedletsky
Martin Short
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Mathew Rosengart
Matt Lucas
Matt Miller
Matthew Bronfman
Matthew Hiltzik
Matthew Weiner
Matti Leshem
Max Mutchnik
Maya Lasry
Meaghan Oppenheimer
Melissa Zukerman
Michael Aloni
Michael Ellenberg
Michael Green
Michael Rapino
Michael Rappaport
Michael Weber
Michelle Williams
Mike Medavoy
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Mimi Leder
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Molly Shannon
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Natasha Leggero
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Neil Druckmann
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Nicole Avant
Nina Jacobson
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Noa Tishby
Noah Oppenheim
Noah Schnapp
Noreena Hertz
Odeya Rush
Olivia Wilde
Oran Zegman
Orlando Bloom
Pasha Kovalev
Pattie LuPone
Paul & Julie Rudd
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Paul Pflug
Peter Traugott
Polly Sampson
Rachel Riley
Rafi Marmor
Ram Bergman
Raphael Margulies
Rebecca Angelo
Rebecca Mall
Regina Spektor
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Rich Statter
Richard Jenkins
Richard Kind
Rick Hoffman
Rick Rosen
Rita Ora
Rob Rinder
Robert Newman
Roger Birnbaum
Roger Green
Rosie O’Donnell
Ross Duffer
Ryan Feldman
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sam Levinson
Sam Trammell
Sara Foster
Sarah Baker
Sarah Bremner
Sarah Cooper
Sarah Paulson
Sarah Treem
Scott Braun
Scott Braun
Scott Neustadter
Scott Tenley
Sean Combs
Seth Meyers
Seth Oster
Shannon Watts
Shari Redstone
Sharon Jackson
Sharon Stone
Shauna Perlman
Shawn Levy
Sheila Nevins
Shira Haas
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Tikhman
Skylar Astin
Stacey Snider
Stephen Fry
Steve Agee
Steve Rifkind
Sting & Trudie Styler
Susanna Felleman
Susie Arons
Taika Waititi
Thomas Kail
Tiffany Haddish
Todd Lieberman
Todd Moscowitz
Todd Waldman
Tom Freston
Tom Werner
Tomer Capone
Tracy Ann Oberman
Trudie Styler
Tyler James Williams
Tyler Perry
Vanessa Bayer
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Veronica Smiley
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Will Ferrell
Will Graham
Yamanieka Saunders
Yariv Milchan
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Zoe Saldana
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The bracket is here! I had A Time fitting everything on one page, but it should embiggen so that all the names are legible. Thank you to everyone who submitted! I'll try to have the polls up soon.
Also, feel free to submit propaganda or images for any of the ships. By the nature of the bracket, it might be kinda hard to find stuff lmao.
The masterpost for the first tournament can be found here
Round 1a
Aaron Soto/Thomas Reyes vs. Mr. Mistoffelees/Rum Tum Tugger
Claude von Riegan/Flayn vs. Magic Brian/Brad Bradson
Kodiak Celius/Ambrose Cusk vs. Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill/Marco
Sam Lloyd/Evie O'Neill vs. Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs
Shang Qinghua/Noodle Guy vs. Dr. Alto Clef/Dr. Benjamin Kondraki
Jonathan Walsh/Ozzie Graham vs. Bart Curlish/Ken Adams
Blaze the Cat/Rouge the Bat vs. Grimlock/Starscream
Montrose/Ellis vs. John Doggett/Monica Reyes
Gwyneth/Huma Dragonbane/Magius vs. Luz Noceda/Hunter
Lulu/Yuna vs. Zachary Ezra Rawlins/Dorian
Vicki Appleby/Maureen Sampson vs. Todd Anderson/Charlie Dalton
Rosalina/Pauline vs. Tristan Taylor/Duke Devlin
Charlie Airstar/Tesla Magnets vs. Aone/Hinata
Haruto Keats/Theoto Rikka vs. Static Man/Nicholas Waters
Jeremy Fitzgerald/Fritz Smith (Not Michael Afton) vs. Breekon/Hope
Touko Kirigaya/Tsukushi Futaba/Mashiro Kurata vs. Death/Bunnymund
Round 1b
Rashmi Jamil/Amelie Macon vs. Liam Dunbar/Hayden Romero
Taissa Turner/Shauna Shipman vs. Milo/Piers
Kate Shadow/Emilyko vs. Jupiter/Neptune/Venus
Josh Levison/Sally Malik vs. Sasuke Uchiha/Suigetsu Hozuki
Frank Grunn/Harold Ivy vs. Kyo Sohma/Yuki Sohma
Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji vs. Aleksander/Regina
Officer Lockstock/Officer Barrel vs. Mihashi/Tajima
Chad Cola/Deuu Dino vs. Dale Cooper/Harry Truman
Dee Eliade/Audrey Myers vs. Arthur Rimbaud/Paul Verlaine
Tsukuyo/Sacchan vs. Dark Mousy/Krad
Benjamin Deeds/Nathaniel Carver vs. C-53/Pleck Decksetter
Skeleteen/Ram Man II vs. Gundam Tanaka/Hajime Hinata
Kyoko/Ayaka vs. Char Aznable/Amuro Ray
Wocky Kitaki/Vera Misham vs. Robin/Demetrius
Norita Yuuji/Shiota Nagisa vs. Andrei Bolkonsky/Pierre Bezukhov
Terry McGinnis | Batman/Shaka Okoro | Stalker vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
Round 2a
Mr. Mistoffelees/Rum Tum Tugger vs. Magic Brian/Brad Bradson
Ax/Marco vs. Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs
Shang Qinghua/Noodle Guy vs. Bart Curlish/Ken Adams
Blaze the Cat/Rouge the Bat vs. Montrose/Ellis
Gwyneth/Huma Dragonbane/Magius vs. Lulu/Yuna
Todd Anderson/Charlie Dalton vs. Rosalina/Pauline
Aone/Hinata vs. Static Man/Nicholas Waters
Breekon/Hope vs. Death/Bunnymund
Round 2b
Rashmi Jamil/Amelie Macon vs. Milo/Piers
Kate Shadow/Emilyko vs. Sasuke Uchiha/Suigetsu Hozuki
Kyo Sohma/Yuki Sohma vs. Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji
Mihashi/Tajima vs. Dale Cooper/Harry Truman
Arthur Rimbaud/Paul Verlaine vs. Dark Mousy/Krad
Benjamin Deeds/Nathaniel Carver vs. Gundam Tanaka/Hajime Hinata
Char Aznable/Amuro Ray vs. Wocky Kitaki/Vera Misham
Norita Yuuji/Shiota Nagisa vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
Round 3
Mr. Mistoffelees/Rum Tum Tugger vs Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs
Shang Qinghua/Noodle Guy vs. Blaze the Cat/Rouge the Bat
Lulu/Yuna vs. Rosalina/Pauline
Static Man/Nicholas Waters vs. Death/Bunnymund
Rashmi Jamil/Amelie Macon vs. Kate Shadow/Emilyko
Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji vs. Mihashi/Tajima
Dark Mousy/Krad vs. Gundam Tanaka/Hajime Hinata
Char Aznable/Amuro Ray vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
Round 4
Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs vs. Shang Qinghua/Noodle Guy
Rosalina/Pauline vs. Death/Bunnymund
Rashmi Jamil/Amelie Macon vs. Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji
Gundam Tanaka/Hajime Hinata vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
Semifinals
Sir Hammerlock/Wainwright Jakobs vs. Rosalina/Pauline
Haruhi Fujioka/Renge Houshakuji vs. Mina Murray Harker/Lucy Westenra
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Novel Syllabus 2024
This coming year I think I'm going to be on here more often than I am on twitter or elsewhere, and as part of that, I'm going to start documenting the process of writing my novel more actively. I want to return to/resurrect the momentum and energy I had while writing the first draft and be more intentional about setting aside time to work, even when it's difficult. Below are my writing goals for the coming year as well as my reading list of texts for inspiration, genre/background research, comps, etc. Would welcome any suggestions of texts (any genre/discipline) pertaining to Antigone, death & resurrection, Welsh and Cornish myth and folklore, ecology & environmental crisis, and the Gothic.
Writing Goals
Reach 50k words in draft 2 overall
Finish a draft of Anna's timeline
Finish a draft of Jo's timeline
Polish & submit an excerpt for the Center for Fiction Prize
Reading
* = reread
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & The Apocalyptic
The Memory Theater (Karin Tidbeck)
Who Fears Death (Nnedi Okorafor)
Urth of The New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
Slow River (Nicola Griffith)
Dream Snake (Vonda McIntyre)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)
Notes from the Burning Age (Claire North)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)*
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)*
The Last Man (Mary Shelley)
The Drowned World (J.G. Ballard)
Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge, trans. by Jeremy Tiang)
City of Saints and Madmen (Jeff VanderMeer)
Freshwater (Akweke Emezi)
The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
Pattern Master (Octavia Butler)
Sleep Donation (Karen Russell)
How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)
The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)*
The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman)*
The Green Witch (Susan Cooper)
The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse)
Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)
Lives of the Monster Dogs (Kirsten Bakis)
Brian Evenson
Sofia Samatar
Connie Willis
Samuel Delaney
Jo Walton
Tanith Lee
Retellings
A Wild Swan (Michael Cunningham)
Til We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
Gingerbread (Helen Oyeyemi)
Circe (Madeline Miller)
The Owl Service (Alan Garner)
Literary Myth-Making, Mystery, and the Gothic
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
Frenchman's Creek (Daphne Du Maurier)
Possession (A.S. Byatt)*
The Game (A.S. Byatt)*
The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
The Secret History (Donna Tartt)*
The Wild Hunt (Emma Seckel)
King Nyx (Kirsten Bakis)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
The Night Land (William Hope Hodgson)
Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice)*
Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson)*
Night Side of the River (Jeanette Winterson)
Bad Heroines (Emily Danforth)
All the Murmuring Bones (A.G. Slatter)
The Path of Thorns (A.G. Slatter)
Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)
Prose Work, Perspective, and Stream of Consciousness
The Chandelier (Clarice Lispector)
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)*
The Years (Virginia Woolf)
The Intimate Historical Epic / Court Intrigues
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)*
Menewood (Nicola Griffith)
Dark Earth (Rebecca Stott)
A Place of Greater Safety (Hilary Mantel)
Research
The Mabinogion (trans. Sioned Davies)
Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)
The Collected Brothers Grimm (Phillip Pullman)
Angela Carter's Collected Fairytales
Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
Underland (Robert Macfarlane)
The Wild Places (Robert Macfarlane)
Wildwood (Roger Deakin)
Vanishing Cornwall (Daphne Du Maurier)
Lonely Planet: Guide to Devon & Cornwall
A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World (David Gessner)
The Lost Boys of Montauk (Amanda M. Fairbanks)
A Cyborg Manifesto (Donna J. Harraway)
A Treasury of British Folklore (Dee Dee Chainey)*
The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (Eileen M. Hunt)
Antigone's Claim (Judith Butler)
Theories of Desire: Antigone Again (Judith Butler)
Ecology of Fear (Mike Davis)
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If StEx Ever Got a Broadway Revival
Here's some casting decisions
Rusty - Jeremy Jordan, Reeve Carney
Pearl - Sierra Boggess, Phillipa Soo
Momma/Poppa - Audra McDonald, James Monroe Iglehart
Greaseball - Andy Karl, Will Chase
Dinah - Kerry Butler, Sutton Foster
Elektra - Callum Francis, Gavin Creel
Caboose (CB) - Ethan Slater, Amber Gray
Caboose (BV) - Aaron Tveit, Patina Miller (don’t fight me on this one, she could do it)
Belle - Eden Espinosa, Krysta Rodriguez
Carrie - Alli Mauzey, Kerry Ellis
Rocky 1 - Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan
Rocky 2 - Anthony Ramos, George Salazar
Rocky 3 - Lilli Cooper, Renée Elise Goldsberry
Dustin - Alex Brightman, Ben Platt
Flat Top - Gavin Lee, John Gallagher Jr.
Coco - Shoshana Bean, Jessie Mueller
Ruhrgold - Rob McCLure, Bryce Pinkham
Brexit - Derek Klena, Jefferson Mays
Espresso - Ramin Karimloo, Santino Fontana
Manga - Telly Leung, Adam Jacobs
Turnov - Brian d'Arcy James, Christopher Jackson
Killerwatt - Leslie Odom Jr., Jonathan Groff
Volta (both m and f) - Lucas Steele, Idina Menzel
Wrench - Stephanie J. Block, Jessica Vosk
Joule - Ariana DeBose, Ali Stroker
Feel free to share your ideas too, if you want!
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hello, friends! here is a collection of some of my favorite faces. i'll update this list as i come into contact with faces that i've been introduced to and want to interact with. please keep in mind that this list is just what comes to mind, i love new faces so feel free to suggest new ones to me !#happyroleplaying
ACTORS
a-e
aaron paul, aaron taylor-johnson, aaron tveit, adam dimarco, adan canto, alan ritchson, alberto rosende, alexander calvert, alexander skarsgard, alex fitzalan, alfie allen, alfonso herrera, alfred enoch, alvaro rico, andre lamoglia, andrew garfield, andrew matarazzo, andy samberg, angus cloud, antoni porowski, antony starr, armie hammer, aron piper, austin butler, avan jogia, ben barnes, bill skarsgard, blair redford, blake jenner, bob morley, boyd holbrook, brandon flynn, brant daughtry, brenton thwaites, brian j. smith, bright vachirawit chivaaree, cameron monaghan, casey cott, carter jenkins, chace crawford, chadwick boseman, chance perdomo, charles melton, charlie coxx, charlie heaton, charlie hunnam, charlie weber, chase stokes, cheyenne jackson, chris evans, chris hemsworth, chris messina, chris pine, christian navarro, christopher abbott, chris wood, cody christian, cody fern, cole sprouse, colton haynes, curran walters, dacre montgomery, daniel sharman, darren barnet, darren criss, david castaneda, david castro, david corenswet, dean geyer, dominic cooper, dominic sherwood, drey ray tanner, drew van acker, dylan minnette, dylan o'brien, dylan sprayberry, dylan sprouse, ed westwick, eka darville, eric dane, evan peters.
f-l
felix mallard, finn jones, finn wittrock, froy gutierrez, gavin leatherwood, gong yoo, grant gustin, gregg sulkin, gus kenworthy, hart denton, hasan minhaj, henry cavill, henry zaga, herman tommeras, hero fiennes-tiffin, hugh dancy, ian bohen, ian harding, ian somerhalder, itzan escamilla, iwan rheon, jack falahee, jack quaid, jack mulhern, jack o'connell, jacob artist, jacob elordi, jai courtney, jan luis castellanos, jared padelecki, jason momoa, jedidiah goodacre, jensen ackles, jeremy allen white, jeremy jordan, joe dempsie, joe keery, joel kinnaman, joel mchale, joe manganiello, jonathan groff, jon bernthal, jon krazinski, jordan fisher, jorge lopez, joseph gilgun, josh hartnett, joshua bassett, justin hartley, justin theroux, karamo brown, karl urban, kit harrington, kj apa, kyle allen, liam hemsworth, logan shroyer, louis partridge, lucien laviscount, luke evans, luke pasqualino.
m-s
manny jacinto, manu rios, matt bomer, matthew daddario, mark pellegrino, mason gooding, maxence danet-fauvel, max irons, max riemelt, mena massoud, michael cimino, michael trevino, michael vlamis, michele morrone, michiel huisman, miguel bernardeau, miguel herran, mike colter, miguel angel silvestre, miles heizer, milo ventimiglia, nathan parsons, nicholas galitzine, nick robinson, nico mirallegro, nico tortorella, nikolaj coster-waldua, noah centineo, nolan gerard funk, oliver jackson-cohen, oliver stark, omar ayuso, omar rudberg, oscar isaac, paul wesley, penn badgley, pol granch, rafael silva, rahul kohli, rami malik, richard madden, ricky whittle, riz ahmed, robert sheehan, rome flynn, ronen rubenstein, ross lynch, rudy pankow, rupert grint, ryan guzman, ryan kelley, ryan potter, sam claflin, sam heughan, samuel larson, scott eastwood, sean teale, sebastian de souza, sebastian stan, shiloh fernandez, skeet ulrich, steven strait.
t-z
taron egerton, taylor zakhar perez, theo james, thomas doherty, timothy granaderos, timothy olyphant, toby kebbell, toby wallace, tom ellis, tom hiddleston, tom holland, tom hopper, tom pelphrey, tyler blackburn, tyler hoechlin, tyler lawrence gray, tyler posey, wentworth miller, zac efron.
MUSICIANS
austin porter, benito ocasio (bad bunny), brandon arreaga, charlie puth, dominic fike, edwin honoret, harry styles, jack gilinsky, jack harlow, jaden smith, joe jonas, lil nas z, machine gun kelly, nick jonas, nick mara, omar apollo, shawn mendes, troye sivan, zayn malik, zion kuwonu.
EASTERN
bang chan, choi chanhee, choi minho, christian yu, han seungwoo, jackson wang, jay park, jung ki-suck, kim jennie, kim jisoo, kim jongdae, kwon hyuk lai, kuan-lin, lalisa manoban, lee dae-hwi, lee tae-min, mark yien tuan, ong seong-wu, roseanne park, taehyung, wong kunhang, wu yi fan, xiao dejun, and yan an.
MODELS
adam senn, adil haddaoui, adrien sahores, agustin bruno, arthur gosse, billy vandendooren, bo develius, brad skelly, brooklyn beckham, cameron dallas, casey jackson, christian hogue, daniel abohzira, daniel bederov, david gandy, derek chadwick, desire mia, diego barrueco, francisco lachowski, gage gomez, gui fedrezzi, harvey newton-haydon, isha blaaker, ivan kozak, jacob bixenman, janis danner, jamie dornan, joe collier, jordan torres, juan betancourt, julian schratter, kit butler, lenny izaguire, manu rios, marlon teixeira, marvin cortes, matthew noszka, matty carrington, maverick mcconnell, michael yerger, neels visser, nick bateman, nicolas simoes, nyle dimarco, ollie loudon, owen lindberg, rafael lazzini, rafael miller, reese king, richard diess, robbie satchwell, sean opry, simon loof, simon nessman, tanner reese, tom webb, vinnie hacker, will higginson, xavier serrano, zander fitzpatrick
UNCLASSIFIED
gus kenworthy, noah beck, ryan garcia, vlad hoshin.
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The 23rd Annual Bryan Awards - Acting Categories
Acting and Performance
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series:
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY - Quinta Brunson as Janine Teagues (ABC)
DEAD TO ME - Christina Applegate as Jen Harding (Netflix)
MAISEL - Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam Maisel (Prime Video)
ONLY MURDERS - Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora (Hulu)
POKER FACE - Natasha Lyonne as Charlie (Peacock)
Lead Actress in a Drama Series:
BAD SISTERS - Sharon Horgan as Eva Garvey (Apple Plus)
THE CROWN - Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II (Netflix)
THE DIPLOMAT - Keri Russell as Kate Wyler (Netflix)
THE HANDMAID’S TALE - Elisabeth Moss as June Osborne (Hulu)
SUCCESSION - Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy (HBO)
YELLOWJACKETS - Melanie Lynskey as Shauna Sadecki (Showtime)
Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series/TV Movie:
BEEF - Ali Wong as Amy Lau (Netflix)
DAISY JONES & THE SIX - Riley Keough as Daisy Jones (Prime Video)
FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE - Lizzy Caplan as Libby Epstein (Hulu)
GEORGE & TAMMY - Jessica Chastain as Tammy Wynette (Showtime)
LOVE & DEATH - Elizabeth Olsen as Candy Montgomery (HBO)
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS - Kathryn Hahn as a Clare Pierce (Hulu)
Lead Actress in Daytime:
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL - Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan (CBS)
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL - Jacqueline MacInnes-Wood as Steffy Forrester (CBS)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Laura Wright as Carly Spencer (ABC)
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS - Melissa Claire Egan as Chelsea Newman (CBS)
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS - Michelle Stafford as Phyllis Summers (CBS)
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series:
BARRY - Bill Hader as Barry (HBO)
THE BEAR - Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto (Hulu)
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING - Steve Martin as Charles-Haden Savage (Hulu)
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING - Martin Short as Oliver Putnam (Hulu)
TED LASSO - Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso (Apple Plus)
Lead Actor in a Drama Series:
BETTER CALL SAUL - Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill (AMC)
THE LAST OF US - Pedro Pascal as Joel (HBO)
THE OLD MAN - Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase (F/X)
SUCCESSION - Brian Cox as Logan Roy (HBO)
SUCCESSION - Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy (HBO)
SUCCESSION - Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy (HBO)
Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series/TV Movie:
BEEF - Steven Yeun as Danny Cho (Netflix)
BLACK BIRD - Taron Egerton as James Keene (Apple Plus)
GEORGE & TAMMY - Michael Shannon as George Jones (Showtime)
MONSTER - Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer (Netflix)
WEIRD - Daniel Radcliffe as “Weird Al” Yankovic (Roku)
WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES - Kumail Nanjiani as Somen “Steve” Banerjee (Hulu)
Lead Actor in Daytime:
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL - Thorsten Kaye as Ridge Forrester (CBS)
DAYS OF OUR LIVES - Dan Feuerriegel as E.J. DiMera (NBC & Peacock)
DAYS OF OUR LIVES - Billy Flynn as Chad DiMera (NBC & Peacock)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Maurice Benard as Sonny Corinthos (ABC)
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS - Jason Thompson as Billy Abbott (CBS)
Lead Performer in a New Series:
THE BEAR - Jeremy Allen White as Carmen Berzatto (Hulu)
THE DIPLOMAT - Keri Russell as Kate Wyler (Netflix)
THE LAST OF US - Pedro Pascal as Joel (HBO)
THE OLD MAN - Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase (F/X)
SHRINKING - Jason Segel as Jimmy Laird (Apple Plus)
SO HELP ME TODD - Marcia Gay Harden as Margaret (CBS)
WEDNESDAY - Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams (Netflix)
Younger Performer in Daytime:
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL - Henry Samiri as Douglas Forrester (CBS)
DAYS OF OUR LIVES - Christopher Cary as Thomas DiMera (NBC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - William Lipton as Cameron Webber (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Eden McCoy as Josslyn Jacks (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Avery Kristen Pohl as Esme Prince (ABC)
Younger Performer in Primetime:
FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE - Meara Mahoney Gross as Hannah Fleishman (Hulu)
THE LAST OF US - Belle Ramsay as Ellie (HBO)
THE LAST OF US - Keivonn Montreal Woodard as Sam Burrell (HBO)
THAT ‘90s SHOW - Callie Haverda as Leia Forman (Netflix)
WEDNESDAY - Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams (Netflix)
YOUNG SHELDON - Iain Armitage as Sheldon Cooper (CBS)
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series:
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY - Janelle Jones as Ava Coleman (ABC)
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY - Sheryl Lee Ralph as Barbara Howard (ABC)
THE BEAR - Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu (Hulu)
MAISEL - Alex Borstein as Susie Myerson (Prime Video)
THE OTHER TWO - Molly Shannon as Pat (HBO Max)
SHRINKING - Jessica Williams as Gaby (Apple Plus)
TED LASSO - Juno Temple as Keeley Jones (Apple Plus)
TED LASSO - Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton (Apple Plus)
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series:
BETTER CALL SAUL - Carol Burnett at Marion (AMC)
BETTER CALL SAUL - Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler (AMC)
THE CROWN - Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales (Netflix)
SUCCESSION - J. Smith-Cameron as Gerri Kellman (HBO)
THE WHITE LOTUS - Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya McQuoid-Hunt (HBO)
THE WHITE LOTUS - Meghann Fahy as Daphne Sullivan (HBO)
THE WHITE LOTUS - Aubrey Plaza as Harper Spiller (HBO)
THE WHITE LOTUS - Simona Tabasco as Lucia (HBO)
Supporting Actress in a Limited/Anthology Series or TV Movie:
BEEF - Maria Bello as Jordana Forster (Netflix)
FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE - Claire Danes as Rachel Fleishman (Hulu)
LOVE & DEATH - Lily Rabe as Betty Gore (HBO)
MONSTER - Niecy Nash-Betts as Glenda Cleveland (Netflix)
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS - Merritt Wever as Frankie Pierce (Hulu)
WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES - Annaleigh Ashford as Irene Banerjee (Hulu)
WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES - Juliette Lewis as Denise (Hulu)
Supporting Actress in Daytime:
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL - Krista Allen as Taylor Hayes (CBS)
DAYS OF OUR LIVES - Stacy Haiduk as Kristen DiMera (NBC & Peacock)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Sonya Eddy as Epiphany Johnson (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Brook Kerr as Dr. Portia Robinson (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Kelly Thiebaud as Dr. Britt Westbourne (ABC)
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS - Susan Walters as Diane Jenkins (CBS)
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY - Tyler James Williams as Gregory Eddie (ABC)
BARRY - Anthony Carrigan as NoHo Hank (HBO)
BARRY - Henry Winkler as Gene Cousineau (HBO)
THE BEAR - Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richie Jerimovich (Hulu)
JURY DUTY - James Marsden as Himself (FreeVee)
SHRINKING - Harrison Ford as Dr. Paul Rhoades (Apple Plus)
TED LASSO - Phil Dunster as Jamie Tartt (Apple Plus)
TED LASSO - Brett Goldstein as Roy Kent (Apple Plus)
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series:
BETTER CALL SAUL - Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo Fring (AMC)
SUCCESSION - Nicholas Braun as Greg Hirsch (HBO)
SUCCESSION - Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans (HBO)
SUCCESSION - Alan Ruck as Connor Roy (HBO)
SUCCESSION - Alexander Skarsgard as Matsson (HBO)
THE WHITE LOTUS - F. Murray Abraham as Bert Di Grasso (HBO)
THE WHITE LOTUS - Michael Imperioli as Dominic Di Grasso (HBO)
THE WHITE LOTUS - Theo James as Cameron Sullivan (HBO)
Supporting Actor in a Limited/Anthology Series or TV Movie:
BEEF - Young Mazino as Paul Cho (Netflix)
BLACK BIRD - Paul Walter Hauser as Larry Hall (Apple Plus)
BLACK BIRD - Ray Liotta as Big Jim Keene (Apple Plus)
FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE - Adam Brody as Seth Morris (Hulu)
LOVE & DEATH - Jesse Plemons as Allan Gore (HBO Max)
MONSTER - Richard Jenkins as Lionel Dahmer (Netflix)
WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES - Murray Bartlett as Nick DeNoia (Hulu)
Supporting Actor in Daytime:
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL - Matthew Atkinson as Thomas Forrester (CBS)
BEYOND SALEM/DAYS OF OUR LIVES - Steve Burton as Harris Michaels (Peacock)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Nicholas Chavez as Spencer Cassidine (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Chad Duell as Michael Corinthos (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Robert Gossett as Marshall Ashford (ABC)
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS - Bryton James as Devon Hamilton (CBS)
Supporting Performer in a New Series:
BAD SISTERS - Eva Birthistle as Ursula Flynn (Apple Plus)
THE BEAR - Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu (Hulu)
THE BEAR - Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Hulu)
JURY DUTY - James Marsden as Himself (FreeVee)
THE OLD MAN - John Lithgow as Harold Harper (F/X)
SHRINKING - Harrison Ford as Dr. Paul Rhoades (Apple Plus)
WEDNESDAY - Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems (Netflix)
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series:
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY - Taraji P. Henson as Vanetta (ABC)
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING - Jane Lynch as Sazz Pataki (Hulu)
POKER FACE - Judith Light as Irene Smothers (Peacock)
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Quinta Brunson as Host/Various Characters (NBC)
TED LASSO - Becky Ann Baker as Dottie Lasso (Apple Plus)
TED LASSO - Harriet Walter as Deborah (Apple Plus)
Guest Actor in a Comedy Series:
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY - Leslie Odom Jr. as Draemond (ABC)
THE BEAR - Jon Bernthal as Mikey Berzatto (Hulu)
THE BEAR - Oliver Platt as Pops (Hulu)
MAISEL - Luke Kirby as Lenny Bruce (Prime Video)
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Steve Martin & Martin Short as Co-Hosts/Various Characters (NBC)
TED LASSO - Sam Richardson as Edwin Akufo (Apple Plus)
Guest Actress in a Drama Series:
THE LAST OF US - Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen (HBO)
THE LAST OF US - Storm Reid as Riley Abel (HBO)
THE LAST OF US - Anna Torv as Theresa “Tess” Servopoulos (HBO)
SUCCESSION - Hope Davis as Sandi Furness (HBO)
SUCCESSION - Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce (HBO)
SUCCESSION - Harriet Walter as Lady Caroline Collingwood (HBO)
Guest Actor in a Drama Series:
BETTER CALL SAUL - Mark Margolis as Hector “Tio” Salamanca (AMC)
THE LAST OF US - Murray Bartlett as Frank (HBO)
THE LAST OF US - Lamar Johnson as Henry Burrell (HBO)
THE LAST OF US - Nick Offerman as Bill (HBO)
THE MANDALORIAN - Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon (HBO)
SUCCESSION - James Cromwell as Ewan Roy (HBO)
Guest Performer in Daytime:
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Denise Crosby as Dr. Carolyn Webber (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Alley Mills as Heather Webber (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Linda Purl as Peyton Honeycutt (ABC)
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS - Barbara Crampton as Leanna Love (CBS)
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS - James Hyde as Jeremy Stark (CBS)
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS - Robert Newman as Ashland Locke (CBS)
Guest Performer in a New Series:
THE BEAR - Jon Bernthal as Mikey Berzatto (Hulu)
THE BEAR - Oliver Platt as Pops (Hulu)
THE LAST OF US - Murray Bartlett as Frank (HBO)
THE LAST OF US - Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen (HBO)
THE LAST OF US - Nick Offerman as Bill (HBO)
WEDNESDAY - Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams (Netflix)
Performance by a Cast in a Comedy Series:
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Barry (HBO)
The Bear (F/X)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video)
Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Ted Lasso (Apple Plus)
Performance by a Cast in a Drama Series:
Bad Sisters (Apple Plus)
Better Call Saul (AMC)
The Crown (Netflix)
The House of the Dragon (HBO)
Succession (HBO)
The White Lotus (HBO)
Performance by a Cast in a Limited/Anthology Series or TV Movie:
Beef (Netflix)
Daisy Jones and the Six (HBO)
Five Days At Memorial (Apple Plus)
Fleishman in Trouble (Hulu)
Welcome to Chippendales (Hulu)
The White House Plumbers (HBO)
Performance by a Cast in Daytime:
The Bay (Pop TV)
Beyond Salem & Days of Our Lives (Peacock)
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
General Hospital (ABC)
The Young and the Restless (CBS)
Performance by a Cast in a New Series:
Bad Sisters (Apple Plus)
The Bear (F/X)
The House of the Dragon (HBO)
Jury Duty (FreeVee)
So Help Me Todd (CBS)
Wednesday (Netflix)
Screen Couples
Screen Duo or Trio in a Comedy or Variety Series:
THE GREAT - Nicholas Hoult and Elle Fanning (Hulu)
ONLY MURDER IN THE BUILDING - Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez (Hulu)
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Steve Martin and Martin Short (NBC)
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Michael Che and Colin Jost (NBC)
SCHMIGADOON - Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key (Apple Plus)
Screen Duo or Trio in a Drama Series:
BETTER CALL SAUL - Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn (AMC)
THE CROWN - Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki (Netflix)
THE GOOD DOCTOR - Freddie Highmore and Paige Spara (ABC)
THE LAST OF US - Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman (HBO)
SUCCESSION - Any two (or more) Roy Siblings (HBO)
Screen Duo or Trio in a Limited/Anthology Series or TV Movie:
BEEF - Steven Yeun and Ali Wong (Netflix)
DAISY JONES AND THE SIX - Sam Claflin and Riley Keough (HBO)
FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE - Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Claire Danes (Hulu)
GEORGE & TAMMY - Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain (Showtime)
HOCUS POCUS 2 - Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy (Disney Plus)
Screen Duo or Trio in Daytime:
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Maurice Benard and Cynthia Watros (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - Chad Duell and Katelyn MacMullen (ABC)
GENERAL HOSPITAL - James Patrick Stuart and Finola Hughes (ABC)
LIVE WITH KELLY AND MARK - Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos (ABC/Syndicated)
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS - Peter Bergman and Susan Walters (CBS)
Host Categories
Late Night Host:
THE DAILY SHOW - Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE - Jimmy Kimmel (ABC)
LAST WEEK TONIGHT - John Oliver (HBO)
THE LATE SHOW - Stephen Colbert (CBS)
THE PROBLEM WITH - Jon Stewart (Apple Plus)
Daytime Talk Host:
THE DREW BARRYMORE SHOW - Drew Barrymore (Syndicated)
THE JENNIFER HUDSON SHOW - Jennifer Hudson (Syndicated)
THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW - Kelly Clarkson (NBC/Syndicated)
LIVE WITH KELLY and MARK - Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos (ABC/Syndicated)
THE TALK - The Hosts of The Talk (CBS)
Reality Host:
BAKING IT - Amy Poehler & Maya Rudolph (Peacock)
NAILED IT - Nicole Byer (Netflix)
QUEER EYE - The Hosts of Queer Eye (Netflix)
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE - RuPaul Charles (VH1)
SURVIVOR - Jeff Probst (CBS)
TOP CHEF - Padma Lakshmi (Bravo)
Game Show Host:
FAMILY FEUD - Steve Harvey (ABC/Syndicated)
JEOPARDY - Mayim Bialik (ABC/Syndicated)
JEOPARDY - Ken Jennings (ABC/Syndicated)
LET’S MAKE A DEAL - Wayne Brady (CBS)
PASSWORD - Keke Palmer (NBC)
WHEEL OF FORTUNE - Pat Sajak (Syndicated)
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Whumpees (actors)
All the actors on this blog (so far):
Search for the name or use this link and add the name you're looking for https://whump-collector.tumblr.com/tagged/
I use the tag compilation for posts with several whumpees.
a: aaron ashmore - aaron tveit - adam palsson - adarsh gourav - aidan turner - alex o'loughlin - alexander dreymon - ali tarik findik - allison scagliotti - andreas pietschmann - andrew j. west
b: ben levin - benedict cumberbatch - brian austin green - burc kümbetlioglu
c: callum turner - channing tatum - charlie cox - charlie hunnam - charlie vickers - chris pine - christian bale - christipher egan - colin farrell - colin morgan - colin o'donoghue
d: dan lewis - daniel craig - daniel sharman - david boreanaz - david dastmalchian - david tennant - david wenham - diego klattenhoff - diego luna - dirk benedict - dominic cooper - drake rodger
e: engin akyürek - eric christian olsen - ewan mcgregor
f: freddie stroma - freddy carter
g: gael garcia bernal - gavin drea - giacomo gianniotti - guy pearce
h: halil ibrahim ceyhan - harold perrineau - henry cavill - henry golding - hisham tawfiq - hugh dancy - hunter doohan
i: iain de caestecker - ian somerhalder - iko uwais
j: jack bannon - jack davenport - jack martin - jack quaid - jake mclaughlin - james mcavoy - james spader - james wolk - jared padalecki - jason isaacs - jay hernandez - jd pardo - jenna ortega - jensen ackles - jeremy allen white - jim sturgess - joe flanigan - joe gilgun - joe keery - joel kinnaman - john cho - john cusack - john reardon - jon bernthal - jonas nay - jonny harris - jordan bridges - joshua jackson - jude law - julian morris
k: karl urban - keegan allen - kevin alejandro - kiefer sutherland - kit harington
l: lee pace - liam hemsworth - lucas till - luke evans - luke mitchell
m: mark hamill - mark waschke - markus brandl - martin henderson - martin shaw - martin wallström - matt barr - matt bomer - matt czuchry - matt lanter - matt smith - max thieriot - megan boone - mel gibson - michael fassbender - michael hurst - michael shanks - michael sheen - michael weatherly - mike farrell - milos bikovic
n: nathan fillion - nathan parsons - nicholas galitzine - nikolaj coster waldau - noah centineo
o: oliver rayon - oscar isaac
p: pablo schreiber - paul bettany - paul hassall - pedro pascal - pio marmai
r: raj yadav - rami malek - richard armitage - richard harmon - richard madden - rish shah - robert downey jr - robert james-collier - robert kazinsky - robin lord taylor - rodger corser - rupert evans - rupert penry jones - russell crowe - ryan guzman - ryan kelley - ryan reynolds
s: sabin tambrea - sam riley - santiago cabrera - scott caan - sean bean - sebastian stan - shawn ashmore - simon baker - stanley tucci - stephen amell - steve burton
t: thomas elms - thomas gibson - tim dekay - tim roth - timothy granaderos - tobey maguire - tolga saritas - tom austen - tom ellis - tom holland - tom payne - tom riley - tom sturridge - torrance coombs
y: yon gonzalez
z: zach mcgowan - zeeko za
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"There was an aesthetic safety gap, Brian normally found, between film and reality."
"Brian", Jeremy Cooper, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023, p. 84
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My Favorite 2023 Met Gala Outfits
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*this is out of random order!!!!*
Jenna Ortega
Rihanna
Gigi Hadid
Anne Hathaway
Aubrey Plaza
Elle Fanning
Keely Shaye Smith-Brosnan
Sean “Diddy” Combs
Olivia Rodrigo, much to my surprise
Teyana Taylor
Rita Ora
Ben Platt
Stormyz
Whitney Peak
Penelope Cruz
Russell Westbrook
Stephanie Hsu
Quannah Chasinghorse
Serena Williams
Barry Keoghan
Halle Bailey
Angèle
Nicola Peltz Beckham
Maya Penn (simple yet elegant, and gorgeous!)
Karen Elson
Stella McCartney
Baz Luhrmann
Maya Hawke
Catherine Martin
Alexa Chung
Joan Smalls
Ava Max
Imaan Hammam
Amber Valletta
Vittoria Ceretti
Labrinth
Jennie Kim
Pusha T
Ke Huy Quan
Usher
Chi Ossé
Daisy Edgar-Jones
Bella Ramsay
Glenn Close
Ashley Graham
Phoebe Bridgers
Alton Mason
Maude Apatow
Miranda Kerr (simple yet elegant, and gorgeous!)
Devon Aoki
Lily James
Jeremy Scott
Nicole Kidman
Amy Fine Collins
Emma Ratajkowski
Gisele Bündchen
Kaitlyn Dever
Kim Petras
Grace Elizabeth
Jodi Comer
Suki Waterhouse
Jared Leto (he came as Choupette (literal cat costume), Karl’s cat!!!!)
Kendall Jenner
Kim Kardashian and Cardi B (they’re both pieces of shit, and I hate myself for liking their outfits)
I love that the stylists for the people I went all out and, for some, were camp-esque.
Kind of...
Paris Hilton
Yung Miami
Tems
Burna Boy
Alex Newell
Jennifer Lopez
Amanda Harlech
Dua Lipa
Irina Shayk
Quinton Brunson
Margaret Qualley (I like the dress and shoes, but I’m not, like in love)
Bad Bunny (I like the head-to-toe white, but I’m not crazy about the outfit????)
Lily Collins
Lily Aldridge
Ashley Park
Eh... / I Don’t Know... / Indifferent
Olivier Rousteing
Karla Bruni
Zac Posen (lookin’ dapper there, though, sir!)
Cara Delevingne
Lala Anthony
Chloe Fineman
Karlie Kloss
Brian Tyree Henry
Ice Spice
Robert Pattinson
Donatella Versace
Kate Moss
Lila Moss
Camila Morrone
Yes and No
Mary J. Blige
Madelyn Cline
Alexandra Daddario
Jeremy Pope (yes for the cape and no to everything else)
Viola Davis
Allison Williams (I love the shade of orange and the dress itself, but the whole look is still a no from me)
Ariana DeBose
Sydney Sweeney
Um...
Erykah Badu
Conan Gray
Doja Cat (edit; 11 PM - she’s supposed to be Choupette too?!)
Lil Nas X
What the ACTUAL Fuck?
Pedro Pascal
Erykah Badu
Lil Nas X
No
Bradley Cooper
Nick Jonas
I Don’t Give a F*ck
Priyanka Chopra
Emma Chamberlain
Kylie Jenner
Vanessa Hudgens
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I’m sure there are tons of more attendees, but I didn’t care to do more research because I am tired. I’ll probably research more tomorrow and reblog this.
(I purposely left off some people out of pure, genuine laziness)
▪️ May 1, 2023 ▪️
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"...relaxing in the knowledge that everything was arranged..." #jeremycooper #brian @FitzcarraldoEds
If you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed me getting quite excited about a lovely package which arrived from Fitzcarraldo Editions; the items were to promote a new title which publishes today, and much as I was delighted with the promo material, the main event for me was of course the book! This is the latest work by Jeremy Cooper, entitled “Brian” and I was intrigued by it from the…
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Books of the Year 2023
Strange, but as usual, I didn’t think I’d read so many books this year. Then I count them up and get to thirty-eight. Not bad. Jon Fosse novels were a stand-out at the beginning of the year.. At the end of 2022 I’d read the first two volumes of Septology and was then was gifted the one volume version. Trilogy and Aliss at the Fire followed. Interesting how trends in my reading continued from the previous year: a couple of Denis Johnson books, one a reread, the other one I’d missed when it came out. Reread Mary Gaitskill. Spent less time with the Beat Reading Group but I joined in with Interzone and Kerouac’s Doctor Sax; in addition I reread Burroughs’ Last Words. Dipped into Tanizaki again with Seven Japanese Tales that had some great stories – notably The Bridge of Dreams. Pushkin Press put out a short story collection - The Siren’s Song – that showcases three of Tanizaki’s early works. A little poetry in troubled times was welcome in Philip Gross’s Deep Field. On the noir front, The Cage by Kenzo Kitakata gave me a lot of insight into ordinary Japanese supermarket business and a parallel insight into the Yakuza world. I followed up with Ashes, his Yakuza story of a ‘dog’ rising through the ranks of a crime family. Andrew Nette’s Orphan Road was trip into the past with reverberations in the present: an unsolved heist story with a gothic twist. Gary Chance, the main character from his previous novel Gunshine Coast goes on a dangerous peregrination through the Melbourne underworld and beyond.
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker was a delight recommended by Val in Seattle. I was deeply impressed by the ambition and prose style of When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut. I was a bit disappointed by his follow-up The Maniac. The final section on AI was excellent, so no complaints. Whenever a Pascal Quignard volume comes out, I’m excited: The Fount of Time was no exception. I was completely absorbed by Jeremy Cooper’s Brian that delved into the mind of a lonely bookkeeper who becomes a film-buff. Cooper has an unsentimental compassion for Brian’s social awkwardness, his ordinariness and a deep respect for his knowledge of Cinema. A masterpiece even? Maybe so.
Septology – Jon Fosse (trans. Damion Searls)
Trilogy – Jon Fosse (trans. May-Brit Akerholt)
Aliss at the Fire – Jon Fosse (trans. Damion Searls)
Interzone – William Burroughs (reread)
Doctor Sax – Jack Kerouac (reread)
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
Deep Field – Philip Gross reread
Bad Behaviour – Mary Gaitskill reread
The Name of the World – Denis Johnson reread
Angels – Denis Johnson
The Kingdom of this World – Alejo Carpentier (trans. Harriet De Onis)
The Year of Living Dangerously – Christopher Koch – more depth after seeing the movie.
Brian – Jeremy Cooper
When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamin Labatut (trans. Adrian Nathan West)
The Maniac – Benjamin Labatut
O Caledonia – Elspeth Barker
Selected Poems – George Barker
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept – Elizabeth Smart
Seven Japanese Tales – Junichiro Tanizaki (trans. Howard Hibbert)
The Siren’s Lament – Junichiro Tanizaki (trans. Bryan Karetnyk)
Noir
The Cage – Kenzo Kitakata (trans. Paul Warham) – chance find on the library shelves
Ashes – Kenzo Kitakata (trans. Emi Shimokawa)
The Dark Room – Junnosuke Yoshiyuki (trans. John Bester) – following on from Japanese Film Festival showings of the films of Ko Nakahira.
The Strangers in the House – Georges Simenon (trans. Robert Baldick)
Black Wings has my Angel – Elliot Chaze – chance find on the library shelves
He Died With His Eyes Open – Derek Raymond – recommended by John L Williams
How the Dead Live – Derek Raymond– recommended by my mate John L Williams
Orphan Road – Andrew Nette – a great heist story set in Melbourne
Nonfiction
Kazuo Ohno’s World from Within and Without – Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno (trans. John Barret with Toshio Mizohata)
Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Grey Grits – Bruce Baird
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings – Susan Sontag ed. – (trans. Helen Weaver)
Maya Deren: Choreography for Cinema – Mark Alice Durant – an excellent biography
Getting Carter – Nick Triplow – a great biography of Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir
Time Within Time – Andrey Tarkovsky (trans. Kitty Hunter-Blair)
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors – Ian Penman – personal essays time and cinema
Unclassifiable
The Fount of Time – Pascal Quignard (trans. Chris Turner) – Inimitable and Brilliant.
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