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Youths of my generation learned about Brassaï from his eye-opening Secret Paris of the 30s. There were pictures of thugs, bums, prostitutes, brothels, drag balls, lesbian bars, interracial dances—who knew such things even existed forty years earlier? But then our fascinated naïveté was rewarded by further contemplation of the photographs, which were humane, sympathetic, endlessly inquisitive, beautifully composed, and drew every possible bit of poetry from the enveloping cloak of night.
– Luc Sante
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Flier for a reading at Columbia University featuring Luc Sante and Jim Jarmusch
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Among the intuitive stretches required of the flâneur is a lively belief in ghosts that does not particularly assume a belief in the supernatural. The past is always present, if sometimes in the way of those movie spirits who can be seen in the room but not in the mirror, or vice versa. All the tyrants and landowners and monopolists in vain set their shoulders to bulldoze the past out of existence, but it stubbornly remains, sometimes in the most indefinable and evanescent way and sometimes as a bad conscience.
Luc Sante, The Other Paris, 2015.
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Four from Luc Sante - No Smoking, Assouline, 2004
Top: Monica Vitti, in Modesty Blaise - Joseph Losey, 1966
Second from Top: Carole Lombard, 1930′s
Second from Bottom: Jane Birkin, Paris, 1975
Bottom: Sharon Stone, in Basic Instinct - Paul Verhoeven, 1992
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/no-smoking/author/sante/publisher/assouline/
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Highlights from the monthly Art Book Club at Milwaukee Public Library- Central. (next one is 2/26!)
Images 1-2: Aperture 229 Winter 2017 (feat. Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose revisited)/ Aperture 241 Winter 2020
Image 3: from The Spirited Earth: Dance, Myth, and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific by Victoria Ginn
Images 4-6: from Nan Goldin / I'll be Your Mirror
#gender performance#photography#art books#nan goldin#cindy sherman#luc sante#aperture#i'll be your mirror#milwaukee public library#art book club#masking#future gender
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#jean luc godard#novelle vague#movies#film#anna karina#sante parole#love#vintage#vintage style#quotes#phylosophy#milo manara#comics#fumetti
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Renée Jacobi, Jacques-André Boiffard, 1930
In this context it is worth looking again at the surrealist Jacques-Andre Boiffard's photograph of Renee Jacobi (1930), which suggests she is a corpse in a mortuary, and to consider Luc Sante's comments on crime photography: "In looking at a crime photo we know we are looking at an image of radical disjunction before we are consciously aware of its narrative content. But then crime retails death, or at best loss, so that even before spectations with no personal stake in the matter it is charged. It is surrealism with a knife."
Footnote 59 in Body and Soul: Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63 by Peter Stanfield, found on Google Books.
#art#photography#renée jacobi#1930s#jacques-andré boiffard#black and white#surrealism#crime photography#peter stanfield#death and dying
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Aries: Tarantino, F. F. Coppola, Andrea Arnold, Eric Rohmer, Edgar Wright, Ruben Östlund, Josh Safdie, David Lean, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Martin McDonagh
Taurus: Wes Anderson, Orson Welles, Sofia Coppola, Lars von Trier, Terry Zwigoff, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, John Waters, Frank Capra
Gemini: Fassbinder, Hideaki Anno, Makhmalbaf, Agnès Varda, Alex Garland, Clint Eastwood, Yorgos Lanthimos, Aaron Sorkin, Ken Loach, Alexander Sokurov, Giuseppe Tornatore
Cancer: Abbas Kiarostami, Wong Kar-wai, P. T. Anderson, Mike White, Ari Aster, Ingmar Bergman, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Paul Verhoeven, Robert Eggers, Béla Tarr, Mel Brooks, Ken Russell, Sidney Lumet, Kinji Fukasaku
Leo: Alfred Hitchcock, Greta Gerwig, Alain Robbe-grillet, Kubrick, Wes Craven, Taika Waititi, Luca Guadagnino, Christopher Nolan, Polanski, Sam Mendes, Richard Linklater, Nicolas Roeg, James Cameron, Pablo Larraín, M. Night Shyamalan, Iñárritu, Gus Van Sant, Peter Weir, Wim Wenders, Maurice Pialat
Virgo: Tom Ford, Joe Wright, Paul Feig, Dario Argento, David Fincher, Brian De Palma, Baz Luhrmann, Tim Burton, Friedkin, Takashe Miike, Noah Baumbach, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, E. Coen
Libra: Julie Dash, Almodóvar, Jacques Tati, Ang Lee, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ti West, Walerian Borowczyk, Nicolas Winding Refn, Satoshi Kon, Kenneth Lonergan, Michael Powell, Jacques Tati, Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve
Scorpio: Mike Nichols, Barry Jenkins, Charlie Kaufman, Céline Sciamma, Tsai Ming-liang, Jean Rollin, Scorsese, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, François Ozon, Julia Ducournau
Sagittarius: Sion Sono, Cassavetes, Raj Kapoor, Steven Spielberg, Eliza Hittman, Terrence Malick, Ozu, Alfonso Cuarón, Gregg Araki, Larry Charles, Judd Apatow, Kathryn Bigelow, Lenny Abrahamson, J. Coen, Jean Luc Godard, Diane Kurys, Ridley Scott, Lynne Ramsay, Woody Allen, Fritz Lang
Capricorn: Larry Clark, David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Damien Chazelle, David Lowery, Mary Harron, Sergio Leone, Todd Haynes, Pedro Costa, Gaspar, Noe, Fellini, Joseph Losey, Miyazaki, John Carpenter, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Curtiz, John Singleton, Vertov
Aquarius: Jim Jarmusch, John Hughes, Darren Aronofsky, Jodorowski, Michael Mann, Derek Cianfrance, Alex Payne, Truffau, Eisenstein, Tone Hooper
Pisces: Pasolini, Sean Baker, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, Benny Safdie, Jacques Rivette, Bunuel, Luc Besson, David Cronenberg, Spike Lee, Rob Reiner, Mike Mills, Sebastián Lelio, Jordan Peele, Ron Howard, Robert Altman
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Fake Christian health insurance and other big cons
The 1973 con-man movie “The Sting,” with Paul Newman and Robert Redford is justifiably beloved (seriously, it’s a great movie) but few people know that it was based on an academic nonfiction book: The Big Con, published in 1940 by the linguist David Maurer:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/109418/the-big-con-by-david-maurer-introduction-by-luc-sante/
Maurer was fascinated by the argot of the con men who had plied the American railroads and streets for decades, pulling off breathtaking hauls with elaborate schemes. He set out to write a glossary of con jargon, and found that in order to explain the meaning of con artists’ jargon, he had to write full-blown ethnographies of the con.
Much of the book describes “big store” cons, where a sucker is presented with a seemingly legitimate business — a bank, an off-track betting parlor, a telegraph agency — that is, in fact, a set, filled with dozens of bustling actors, each playing a role in an elaborate play.
The big store never went away. Indeed, it became a staple of cults. When I was a kid, I used to walk down Yonge Street in Toronto and pass the Church of Scientology, with its sidewalk sandwich boards promoting its “free personality tests.” One day when I was about 13, a friend and I decided we’d get “tested.”
The test was bullshit, of course. For all the soaring promises the Scientologists who roped us and sat us down made about the scientific basis for the test, it was obvious — even to me at 13 — that it was nonsense. After I filled in the multiple-choice form, the Scientologists took the test away and “analyzed” it and came back with a sceincy-seeming graph showing my results.
The horizontal axis was labeled with things like “happiness” and “self-confidence,” while the vertical axis was marked with a percentile scale going from -100% to +100% (I may be misremembering this part, it’s been a while). A jagged line traversed the long axis, crossing the “happiness” and other markers.
“You see,” my Scientology recruiter said, “you are only 40% happy. If you take this very expensive course, we can get you to 100%!” My friend was seriously creeped out by this point, but I argued with the guy for a while, demanding that he explain what a “100% happiness” metric meant, and so on.
It was a big store con. The cult pretended to be in the business of scientifically analyzing your happiness and other traits and then sold you “courses” that would improve the random numbers they’d inscribed on their strip of science-adjacent graph paper.
Cults and cons have a lot in common, of course. Take “health care sharing ministries.” These are fake health insurance programs run by evangelical cults, like Jericho Share (formerly “House of Prayer and Life Inc”), which is advertised heavily to people searching for health insurance, even though it is definitely not health insurance.
Writing for Kaiser Health News, Bram Sable-Smith describes how these “faith-based” fake health insurance programs nominally function as mutual-aid agreements in which all the members agree to cover one another’s bills, but who routinely turn down members’ health care claims, leaving them on the hook for bills they can’t afford:
https://khn.org/news/article/health-care-sharing-ministry-insurance-complaints-jericho-share/
Jericho Share labels its program as “not health insurance,” and claims that it will fire brokers who sell it as such, but if that’s true, the company does a very poor job of policing its brokers, as any search for health insurance can quickly lead you to Jericho Share and other “ministries” that don’t sell insurance.
These aren’t one-offs. They’re systemic. As a 2021 report from Georgetown found, “‘misleading marketing practices’ were directing consumers to alternative health plans, like ministries, that can cost more than marketplace plans and offer fewer protections.”
https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2021/11/08/misleading-marketing-of-non-aca-health-plans-continued-during-covid-19-special-enrollment-period/
When we got up to leave the Church of Scientology that day, the ropers and con-artists who’d analyzed our “test” got very aggressive, laying on guilt trips, warning us that we had serious personality defects, and so on. Likewise, when people try to quit Jericho Share, they’re met with “a pretty manipulating and very belligerent gantlet of customer service reps and hold times.”
Hemani Hughes, who was tricked into buying a Jericho plan, was berated by a customer service rep who warned her that “it was irresponsible to go without insurance” (recall that Jericho is, by its own account, not insurance).
The evangelical movement loves a big store con. Take “Crisis Pregnancy Centers�� — fake abortion clinics that use search engine optimization and deceptive tactics to lure people seeking abortions into cult facilities where they are lied to about the risks of abortion and hard-sold on seeing their pregnancies through to term.
Not only do these big store cons get a fortune in donations from enthusiastic supporters of the con, but GOP lawmakers in states like Missouri confer special charitable tax status to Crisis Centers, making it possible for well-off donors to recoup nearly all the money they give to the centers:
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2022-06-07/how-missouri-helps-abortion-opponents-divert-state-taxes-to-crisis-pregnancy-centers
The GOP — also a cult — loves a big store con, even when it’s not overtly religious. GOP enablers spent years backing for-profit “universities” like Cornithian College (and, of course, Trump University) where students were tricked into taking vast federal loans and funneling them to fake post-secondary universities that took their money and left them uneducated and indebted:
https://prospect.org/day-one-agenda/how-to-dismantle-for-profit-colleges-without-congress/
If you need to lie to people to get them through the door, you’re in a cult. Famously, Scientology’s path to enlightenment starts with a bunch of anodyne self-help talk and aggressive money-siphoning. It’s only once a mark has been isolated and bled that they learn that Scientology’s core project is ridding you of the spiritual residue of a war against a galactic space tyrant 70 million years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology#Space_opera_and_the_Wall_of_Fire
The big store con lives on, through fake health insurance, fake abortion clinics or fake universities. Big stores are fun to read about and it’s a hoot to watch Robert Redford and Paul Newman pull one off — but in real life, in the here and now, they are incredibly dangerous, predatory schemes that ruin lives.
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Mary S. Farrell (modified)
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[Image ID: A theatrical stage with a red-curtained proscenium. On the stage is a set of theatrical flats painted to resemble a row of shops. The shops bear three neon signs: 'Health Insurance,' 'University,' 'Abortion Clinic.' Hanging from the ceiling on ropes of gold is a glittering cross.]
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★ Tag nine people you'd like to get to know better!
favorite color(s): greens and reds and especially black — orange is also lovely
favorite flavor(s): i think lime is just great
favorite genre(s): i like art house crap, body horror, horror, generally, the french new wave, sci-fi (specifically cyberpunk), classic old Hollywood cinema, '80s thrillers (like The Hitcher), dadaism, surrealism, gothic, the glamour of the new romantics, etc.
favorite music: i love everything from the (russian) five to industrial noise! there's this album i love by a french percussionist who plays the Eiffel tower. too hard to narrow it down.
favorite series(s): x-files, mad men, and atlanta
last song: saddlebags - lukid
last series: station eleven
last movie: spiderhead (NOT good oml, netflix pls)
currently reading: luc sante's low life
currently watching: an episode of cabinet of curiosities starring rupert grint apparently
currently working on: befriending the cat we're going to be looking after for the next few weeks
tagged by: @hopegained and @desireandduty <3
tagging: newish people! @ofcatnaps, @affcgato, @riiese, @nightmarefuele, @etoilebleu, @godresembled, @micaela-arg, @corinnebaileyrp, @normallyxstranger but also whoever wants to share.
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Top 100 Films
I made this list a few days ago after feeling irritated at the predictability and staleness of the Sight & Sound list, but really I think this a good moment for me to make this list for myself. As you will see from my end of year list in a month, the emergence of a continuous type of filmmaking - Tiktok and Douyin filmmakers posting every day, Youtubers posting every few days - presents a new kind of problem for me who actually wants to make lists that do justice to beautiful filmmaking movements. So this may be the last time to even really want to make an all time list that focuses on the indvidual works rather than the directors filmographies as continuous entities. Although I couldn’t make a normal top 10 poll, and it was better in the end to have a 100 poll as an alternative to the full list, I have put in bold 7 films which I would definitely put in a top 10.
Hypocrites (dir. Lois Weber, 1915)
7th Heaven (dir. Frank Borzage, 1927)
Themes and Variations (dir. Germaine Dulac, 1928)
The Seashell and the Clergyman (dir. Germaine Dulac, 1928)
City Lights (dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
Le métro (dir. Georges Franju & Henri Langlois, 1934)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
Bambi (dir. David Hand, 1942)
Now, Voyager (dir. Irving Rapper, 1942)
Meet Me in St. Louis (dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
Spring in a Small Town (dir. Fei Mu, 1948)
Song of Love (dir. Jean Genet, 1950)
Awaara (dir. Raj Kapoor, 1951)
Gate of Hell (dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953)
Sansho the Bailiff (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
The Night of the Hunter (dir. Charles Laughton, 1955)
Pyaasa (dir. Guru Dutt, 1957)
The Cranes are Flying (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Gertrud (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (dir. Jacques Demy, 1967)
For My Crushed Right Eye (dir. Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
Everything Visible is Empty (dir. Toshio Matsumoto, 1975)
Atman (dir. Toshio Matsumoto, 1975)
In the Realm of the Senses (dir. Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
House (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
¡Que viva México! (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1979)
Spacy (dir. Takashi Ito, 1981)
Drill (dir. Takashi Ito, 1983)
Ghost (dir. Takashi Ito, 1984)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
Sabishinbou (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1985)
Alice (dir. Jan Svankmajer, 1988)
Gang of Four (dir. Jacques Rivette, 1989)
The Stranger (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1991)
A Scene at the Sea (dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1991)
Cardiogram (dir. Darezhan Omirbaev, 1995)
The Neon Bible (dir. Terence Davies, 1995)
Kids Return (dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1996)
The River (dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 1997)
Monochrome Head (dir. Takashi Ito, 1997)
April Story (dir. Shunji Iwai, 1998)
The Silence (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1998)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (dir. George Lucas, 1999)
OH! Super Milk Chan (dir. Kiyohiro Omori, 2000)
Brother (dir. Takeshi Kitano, 2000)
Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Mulholland Drive (dir. David Lynch, 2001)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (dir. Zacharias Kunuk, 2001)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (dir. Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Avalon (dir. Mamoru Oshii, 2001)
Dolls (dir. Takeshi Kitano, 2002)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (dir. George Lucas, 2002)
Father and Son (dir. Aleksandr Sokurov, 2003)
Waiting for Happiness (dir. Abderrahmane Sissako, 2003)
3-iron (dir. Kim Ki-duk, 2004)
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (dir. Wang Bing, 2004)
Tropical Malady (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (dir. Ken Jacobs, 2005)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (dir. George Lucas, 2005)
Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part III (dir. Yang Fudong, 2006)
Fantascope 'Tylostoma' (dir. Yoshitaka Amano, 2006)
Lady in the Water (dir. M. Night Shyamalan, 2006)
Inland Empire (dir. David Lynch, 2006)
United Red Army (dir. Koji Wakamatsu, 2007)
Paranoid Park (dir. Gus Van Sant, 2007)
City of Ember (dir. Gil Kenan, 2008)
Assault Girls (dir. Mamoru Oshii, 2009)
AKB48 - Heavy Rotation (dir. Mika Ninagawa, 2010)
Jewelpet Twinkle (dir. Takashi Yamamoto, 2011)
Spring Breakers (dir. Harmony Korine, 2013)
'Til Madness Do Us Part (dir. Wang Bing, 2013)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (dir. Isao Takahata, 2013)
EXID - UP&DOWN (dir. Digipedi, 2014)
Tokyo Tribe (dir. Sion Sono, 2014)
Garm Wars: The Last Druid (dir. Mamoru Oshii, 2014)
88:88 (dir. Isiah Medina, 2015)
Creepy (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016)
Daguerreotype (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016)
Before We Vanish (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2017)
Idizwadidiz (dir. Isiah Medina, 2017)
Ending (dir. Isiah Medina & Philip Hoffman, 2017)
TWICE - LIKEY (dir. NAIVE, 2017)
Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2017)
Ready Player One (dir. Steven Spielberg, 2018)
The Grand Bizarre (dir. Jodie Mack, 2018)
Eden is a Cave (dir. Alexandre Galmard, 2019)
OH MY GIRL - The Fifth Season (dir. Yoo Sung-kyun, 2019)
TWICE - FANCY (dir. NAIVE, 2019)
Alita: Battle Angel (dir. Robert Rodriguez, 2019)
OH MY GIRL - Nonstop (dir. Yoo Sung-kyun, 2020)
IZ*ONE - Secret Story of the Swan (dir. Ziyong Kim, 2020)
s01e03 (dir. Kurt Walker, 2020)
The Last of Us Part II (dir. Neil Druckmann, Anthony Newman & Kurt Margenau, 2020)
Eternal Love of Dream (dir. Yang Xuan, 2020)
おはようございます～ (dir. 小柔SeeU, 2020)
bande fucking annonce (dir. Rafael Cavallini, 2021)
高能来袭～准备好了吗？ (dir. 小柔SeeU, 2021)
NewJeans - Hurt (dir. Shin Hee-won, 2022)
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criterion collection
#2 Seven Samurai dir. Akira Kurosawa
#6 Beauty and the Beast dir. Jean Cocteau
#10 Walkabout dir. Nicholas Roeg
#17 Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
#29 Picnic at Hanging Rock dir. Peter Weir
#31 Great Expectations dir. David Lean
#34 Andrei Rublev dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
#51 Brazil dir. Terry Gilliam
#62 The Passion of Joan of Arc dir. Carl Th. Dreyer
#78 The Bank Dick dir. W.C. Fields
#90 Kwaidan dir. Masaki Kobayashi
#102 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie dir. Luis Bunuel
#105 Spartacus dir. Stanley Kubrick
#134 Haxan dir. Benjamin Christensen
#157 The Royal Tenenbaums dir. Wes Anderson
#164 Solaris dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
#165 Man Bites Dog dir. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, & Benoit Poelvoorde
#175 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas dir. Terry Gilliam
#182 Straw Dogs dir. Sam Peckinpah
#200 The Honeymoon Killers dir. Leonard Kastle
#226 Onibaba dir. Kaneto Shindo
#259 Fat Girl dir. Catherine Breillat
#260 Eyes Without a Face dir. Georges Franju
#277 My Own Private Idaho dir. Gus Van Sant
#300 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou dir. Wes Anderson
#332 Viridiana dir. Luis Bunuel
#335 Elevator to the Gallows dir. Louis Malle
#389 WR: Mysteries of the Organism dir. Dusan Makavajev
#390 Sweet Movie dir. Dusan Makavajev
#476 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button dir. David Fincher
#483 Repulsion dir. Roman Polanski
#539 House dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
#540 The Darjeeling Limited dir. Wes Anderson
#542 Antichrist dir. Lars Von Trier
#631 Trilogy of Life dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- #632 The Decameron
- #633 The Canterbury Tales
- #634 Arabian Nights
#635 Weekend dir. Jean-Luc Godard
#711 A Hard Day's Night dir. Richard Lester
#725 Eraserhead dir. David Lynch
#779 Mullholland Dr. dir. David Lynch
#790 Lady Snowblood dir. Toshiya Fujita
#791 Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance dir. Toshiya Fujita
#812 The Player dir. Robert Altman
#888 Stalker dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
#894 The Piano Teacher dir. Michael Haneke
#898 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me dir. David Lynch
#975 Funny Games dir. Michael Haneke
#1000 Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975
#1013 Teorema dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
#1051 The Elephant Man dir. David Lynch
#1084 Mirror dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
#1131 Pink Flamingos dir. John Waters
miscellaneous:
Ingmar Bergman's Cinema
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
#dvd collection#criterion collection#cult films#david lynch#pier paolo pasolini#andrei tarkovsky#godzilla#ingmar bergman#michael haneke#wes anderson
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I remember Luc Sante writing once that one of the surprises in your work is that there you were, in the same scene with all this, and yet, you could take these pictures.
Goldin: I had to take these pictures. They gave me a reason to be there. I think the whole reason that I write about in The Ballad, about my sister’s death and the need to record everything, was predominant. It wasn’t an act of will or very much about pursuing art. It was out of need. All my work, I think, is out of need.
— Darryl Pinckney in conversation with Nan Goldin for Aperture, December 2022
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Pete Schulte is reading:
Alice Notley: In the Pines
Anne Truitt: Yield, Daybook, Prospect, Turn
Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red
Ben Estes: ABC Moonlight
Ben Lerner: 10;04; Leaving the Atocha Station; The Topeka School; Angle of Yaw, The Hatred of Poetry
Cole Swensen: The Glass Age
David Markson: The Last Novel; Vanishing Point; This is Not a Novel; Reader’s Block, Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Jack Whitten: Notes from The Woodshed
James Galvin: As Is; The Meadow
John O’Donahue: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Kiki Petrosino: Fort Red Border; The Dark is Here
Félix Fénéon: Novels in Three Lines, trans. Luc(y) Sante
Maggie Nelson: The Bluets
Nasreen Mohamedi: Waiting is Part of Intense Living
Matisse: The Red Studio: Anne Temkin, Dorthe Aegesen
Meister Eckhart: Selected Writings
Ocean Vuong: Time Is a Mother; Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Organic Music Societies (Don and Moki Cherry) ed. Lawrence Kumpf with Naima Karlsson and Magnus Nygren
Rachel Kushner: The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba; The Mars Room; The Mayor of Leipzig
Rene Daumal: Mount Analogue
Robert Bresson: Notes on The Cinematographer
Robert Hass: Time and Materials
Rudolf Wurlitzer: The Drop Edge of Yonder
Steven Parrino: The No Texts. (1979-2003)
Tantra Song: Franck André Jamme, Michael Tweed, et al.
The Autobiography of Hans-Joachim Roedelius
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa Ed. Robert Hass
The Bhagavad Gita
The Dhammapada
The Upanishads
Tich Nhat Hahn: The Miracle of Mindfulness
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Issue #148: Lee Quiñones by Luc Sante
BOMB Magazine's Luc Sante shows us how prolific artist Lee Quiñones comes up with some of his famous creations.
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He was also frightened of invertebrates, marine life in general, temperatures below freezing, fat people, people of other races, race-mixing, slums, percussion instruments, caves, cellars, old age, great expanses of time, monumental architecture, non-Euclidean geometry, deserts, oceans, rats, dogs, the New England countryside, New York City, fungi and molds, viscous substances, medical experiments, dreams, brittle textures, gelatinous textures, the color gray, plant life of diverse sorts, memory lapses, old books, heredity, mists, gases, whistling, whispering—the things that did not frighten him would probably make a shorter list. He evidently took pleasure in his fears
The Heroic Nerd by Luc Sante in The New York Review of Books, 2006 October 19
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