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Reading is a gateway drug. Get your buzz on.
Sunday Morning Reading
#SundayMorningReading #writing #tech #politics #AI #film
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/07/12/sunday-morning-reading-163/
#QuestionOfTheDay who is a fictional character whose fan interpretation you accept over the canon?
#fiction #writing #anime #manga #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #TV #television #movies #film #videogames #ttrpg #ccgs #books
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/116903309897374298
Rewatching it on iPlayer. I also bought it on the Apple Store. But I want to encourage the BBC to put more romcoms on iPlayer.
BTW, I love the Sony Columbia Pictures ident sequence at the start of Columbia-backed films.
'The Crème de la Crème of Tarzan Films'
My essay on the one serious, literate attempt to treat Tarzan’s source material with genuine cinematic ambition
https://medium.com/counterarts/the-cr%C3%A8me-de-la-cr%C3%A8me-of-tarzan-films-95252759b630?sk=98f7d6db1b3919df864d516634dbf0c2
Other Tarzan films don't do justice to the Tarzan envisioned by creator Edgar Rice Burroughs
#Tarzan #Literature #Cinema #film #filmMastodon
MR. KLEIN 1976
(Monsieur Klein)
Directed by Joseph Losey
135 minutes
In French with English subtitles
What a haunting movie this is... a riveting thriller made by director Joseph Losey, containing a delirious performance by Alain Delon. In my eyes, it's the best role of his career. And yet it is a film that was pushed away and largely deleted in cinema history. This is pretty shocking in terms of culture, especially since there is so much junk kept in the history books, while gems like this are forgotten.
Right from the start, this flick is absolutely riveting. The story takes place during the German occupation of France in 1942, and centers on an art dealer called Robert Klein (Delon). Since Jews are being rounded up and sent to the death camps, it meant Jewish homes would be ransacked by the locals after Jews were deported (the same thing happened on a widespread scale here in Amsterdam). Since our main character Robert is an art dealer, it means he can get stolen art for bargain prices. And of course there are other Jews who haven't been dragged to the camps, but are being hunted down and need cash to escape, and desperate enough to sell everything they have. All in all, the Jewish persecution is great for Robert's business, until mysterious events begin to occur and Robert becomes aware there is another man going around Paris, using his name, but who is a Jew. The movie then unravels from this otherworldly premise...
This existential thriller has a strong Kafka vibe, and director Joseph Losey certainly knew what it was like to be hunted. He had been accused of being a Communist during the 'red scare' of the 1950s in the United States, was forced to go underground, and eventually escaped to Europe where he made some dazzling works of art like The Servant, and this film. The cinematography is overcast in a poetic way, flowing with muted colors and deep shadows. It unfolds almost like a lucid dream, as we watch our main character's life fall apart, while at the same time exploring themes like persecution, mysterious doppelgängers, the dark side of collaboration, and war-profiteering. And let's be clear; this is not just a movie about something in the past, it is about our modern lives today also. The script is by Franco Solinas (Battle of Algiers). Besides Alain Delon, the film features Jeanne Moreau and Juliet Berto.
One of the great aspects of this movie is how it fuses together delirium with historical facts... a surreal, psychological masterpiece. At the time it came out, it won the César Awards for Best Film and Best Director.
Overtoom 301 2nd floor
Doors open at 19:30, film starts at 20:00
3 euros
Time: 2026-07-19 19:30:00+02:00 / 22:00:00+02:00
Journalists, enlighten me - why do you have to report what that very rich troll said on the internet?
If it caused an effect on the market - fair.
His typical anti-whatever-ism - not even news anymore.
His like and dislike on films - why is it even worth the letter space on your paper?
It just come across as click-bait.
The Guardian view on Homer: The Odyssey is more modern than we might like to think | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/10/the-guardian-view-on-homer-the-odyssey-is-more-modern-than-we-might-like-to-think- #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Homer #Film #Books #LupitaNyongo #MattDamon #AnneHathaway #TomHolland #ElonMusk #EmeraldFennell #WutheringHeights #EmilyBront #Culture
"I'm disturbed by the fact that so many people in the world are not able to say what they want to say and are oppressed in such a brutal way" - Eran Riklis discusses Reading Lolita In Tehran https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026-07-10-interview-with-eran-riklis-about-azar-nafisi-and-reading-lolita-in-tehran-feature-story-by-paul-risker #film #books #Iran #movies
#watch the official #trailer 📲 American Doctor follows three American physicians - Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian - united by a single oath to save lives
After volunteering in besieged hospitals in #gaza, they return home determined to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind, taking their battle from the front lines of war to the halls of #US Congress -
#film #movies #palestine
#documentary
Video: Watermelon Pictures
While looking into this story, I discovered that Karl Oskar (and Kristina) Days is underway in Lindström.
Fans of the The Emigrants series of novels by Vilhelm Moberg might enjoy fighting traffic to get up there for the festivities.
U.S. Highway 8 in that area is known as "The Moberg Trail."
https://www.cityoflindstrom.us/1348/KOD-Schedule-Event-Submission
Cooperation isn't a natural instinct for cats, nor is the desire to please silly humans.
The post Cats are notoriously tricky to train. Here’s how animal handlers get cats to ‘act’ in TV and film. appeared first on Upworthy.
Tap dancer Marije Nie met tabla player Tarang Poddar in 2023 in a unique project called 'Book of Premonitions', where more than 200 students from the IVKO school in Amsterdam were invited to collectively create a 'libretto' based on their visions on the future. They made texts, but also scultures and drawings. Working from their materials, the artists of the collective then created a unique, one-off 'opera' that was performed at De Doelen, Korzo and Muziektheater. In this collaboration, Marije and Tarang found a resonance between taps and tablas, which led to this evening in which they will explore the connections between tabla and tap in an improvised dialogue, after which Tarang will present his concert Jelle x Tarang.
Jelle X Tarang have been developing rhythmically intricate instrumental music built around grooves, odd metres, and shifting rhythmic perspectives — technically demanding yet completely accessible to the untrained ear. Drawing from jazz, African musical influences, Indian classical music, and electronic aesthetics, the duo constructs acoustic music that constantly mutates, where repetition, silence, and sudden breaks shape the flow like an evolving machine. Using electric guitar, live processing, tabla, and percussion, they blur the line between acoustic and electronic sound while creating a highly distinctive and contemporary musical language.
Jelle Roozenburg layers melodic fragments, rich contemporary harmonies, and looping textures into compositions that blur the line between acoustic and electronic sound. Within these shifting
structures, Tarang Poddar — a seasoned artist whose stage presence holds the room with the same focused economy as his playing — navigates polyrhythms, metric modulations, and hybrid
percussion textures through a combined tabla and percussion setup; deeply rooted in Indian classical music, his varied influences bleed into one another in unexpected ways, while the tabla
itself is pushed toward unfamiliar sonic territory, creating a highly distinctive and contemporary aesthetic to the instrument.
Marije Nie is a Marije Nie is a tap dancer and theatre maker. She began her career as a musician with her feet—a tap-dancing percussionist—before expanding her practice as a theatrical performer, dramaturg, educator, researcher and facilitator. Through her various collectives and projects, she has created a wide range of concerts, interdisciplinary performances, community art projects, interventions in organisations and artist sessions, creation labs and workshops. Beyond performing, she is committed to facilitate the exchange of experiences and knowledge, and to developing collaborative methods for collective art-making.
Jelle Roozenburg - el. guitar, live processing
Tarang Poddar - tabla, voice
Marije Nie - tap dance
Two movies of tarangpoddarmusic on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWb3J9jiBjs/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtSf1KiOwL/
Member concert
Splendor can only be the independent and free hub that it is, thanks to the members who support us. We pay them back with our specialty: music. Every year, all Splendor musicians play one concert that's free for this crucial group to whom Splendor owes its everyday existence. Combined with many other events, this means that our members have free entrance to over 50 concerts a year for €9,99 p/m (and €4,99 p/m for minima and students!) – and receive a discount for all other concerts. Pretty good deal, right?
The members enable Splendor to remain independent, which is the only way to secure real freedom in programming, experimentation, risk-taking and the promotion of young, upcoming artists. If you can think of another place without a central programming, where last-minute concerts can be planned any moment, where there is no backstage and artists and audience are constantly mingling and hanging out at the bar, where mysterious creative outbursts can be presented that are often labeled 'too risky' elsewhere, and that still guarantees high quality by unleashing the best of The Netherlands' music scene in this creative playground – you get a free membership!
Would you rather just visit this concert without becoming a member? You're more than welcome! Buy your ticket(s) below.
Time: 2026-08-07 20:15:00+02:00
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Dieser Film, in dem eigentlich nur gesprochen wird, funktioniert nur über den Klang, Rhythmus, Akzent und das soziale Wissen, das über die Sprache in seine Figuren eingeschrieben ist. Sie ist kein Transportmittel für die Geschichte, sondern ihr eigentliches Material. Da ist die synchronisierte Fassung in der ARD-Mediathek nicht nur unbefriedigend, sondern konzeptuell eigentlich völlig verfehlt. Sie gibt zwar den Plot wieder, entzieht dem Werk aber all seine künstlerische Substanz. Nirgendwo ist die Abwesenheit der (englischsprachigen) Originalversion mehr zu beklagen als hier. (ARD, Wh.)
Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/rian-johnson-knives-out-2019/In 1964, Buster Keaton came to Canada to make his final silent film. It was The Railrodder, a 25 min comedic travelogue produced by the National Film Board.
NFB filmmaker Gerald Potterton had the idea of making a film about a man going across Canada in a motorized rail cart.
Keaton agreed to be in the film because he loved trains and wanted to experience riding the rails in Canada.
Production began in the late-summer of 1964, and the movie was filmed in chronological order from east to west. Keaton turned 69 during filming and did all of his own stunts.
Various towns across the country held celebrations and screenings of Keaton's films, and he was treated to dinners nearly every single day.
The film was released in October 1965. Audiences loved the film, which became a beloved classic. The NFB sold the TV and film rights to 43 international markets.
Keaton died on Feb. 1, 1966.
'I asked readers: What do you consider the definitive #movie about #America and why?
…
More than 3,000 comments poured in, name-checking hundreds of #movies
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The single #film readers chose most often was “ #Idiocracy” (2006), #MikeJudge’s scathing critique of the #UnitedStates cloaked in a futuristic tale. Some commenters seemed almost sad to list it, linking it to their feelings about the country today, while more than one described it as a documentary'
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
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#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first/given/personal name begins with the letter "S"?
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#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first/given/personal name begins with the letter "T"?
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#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
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"There are approximately 24 million children out of school in Pakistan. There's millions of girls who are child brides. There are millions of children working, meaning child labour. All of these things are intertwined" - Seemab Gul discusses Ghost School https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026-07-02-interview-with-seemab-gul-about-ghost-school-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #film #education #cinema #movies
praia da barreirinha, funchal, madeira
#meermittwoch #mockfotos #photography #analogphotography #film #monochrome #madeira #funchal #geometry
Supergirl: doggy distress, frontier justice and a new direction for superhero movies – discuss with spoilers https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/30/supergirl-doggy-distress-frontier-justice-and-a-new-direction-for-superhero-movies-discuss-with-spoilers #Film #SuperheroMovies #DcComics #Culture #ComicsAndGraphicNovels #Books
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New blog post on the importance of owning physical (and digital) media, when possible: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/the-importance-of-owning-physical-and-digital-media-when-possible
#PhysicalMedia #books #music #movies #film #DVDs #Bluray #vinyl #DigitalMedia #cassettes #CassetteTapes #VHS #CollectingPhysicalMedia
Still a bit low energy from this week's chemo session, but feeling bit better today, so I am going to take myself out for a couple of hours to one of my favourite places, the Filmhouse, to catch up on a film I really wanted to see but missed in cinemas the other year (Perfect Days, by Wim Wenders, whose work I have loved for many decades).