Be Pretty and Shut Up! 1981 Delphine Seyrig (Director)

Anytime Z 2005 My Morning Jacket #poetrysunday +1

Batter up! T Hardy w glowing rec from V Woolf

New competition for best character name in a Thomas Hardy novel: Festus Derriman Vs Bathsheba Everdene Gabriel Oak Diggory Venn Eustacia Vye Clym Yeobright Jude Fawley Arabella Donn Tess D’Urberville

Peter Sinfield (one of the renowned lyricists of the late 20th century) was born today in 1943. Sinfield helped write “Epitaph” “The Court of the Crimson King” “I Talk to the Wind” & “21st Century Schizoid Man” for King Crimson – & Greg Lake’s “I Believe in Father Christmas” Sinfield died in 2024.

Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig 1977 Katja Raganelli. Powerful feminist documentation. DS — a French woman born in Beirut speaking English to a Croatian speaking German — is 100% simplicity & clarity belying a complex brilliance. W 2 cats: blanc & noir

Carole Lombard as Maria Tura looking at a copy of Anna Karenina in To Be or Not to Be. It was her last film as she died in a plane crash at 33

Deleuze in Cinema 2 on truth, time, eternal, Leibniz naval battles, compossible, & incompossible. Great quote: “It is easy to regard this paradox as a sophism.”

A star is someone who makes a lot of money for the producers. I don’t make any money for the producers. Delphine Seyrig

New competition for best character name in a Thomas Hardy novel: Festus Derriman Vs Bathsheba Everdene Gabriel Oak Diggory Venn Eustacia Vye Clym Yeobright Jude Fawley Arabella Donn Tess D’Urberville

Batter up! T Hardy w glowing rec from V Woolf

To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch w Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack. How f’n hard is it to realize Nazis are the bad guys?

All the good superheroes working for Disney a cultural disaster

“Oh dear… if only I could be his sister” Big for Bluesky bit of Oblomov. At times Goncharov like Dostoyevsky meets Austen

Madame Stretter strutting a Momma Roma

Carole Lombard as Maria Tura looking at a copy of Anna Karenina in To Be or Not to Be. It was her last film as she died in a plane crash at 33

To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch w Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack. How f’n hard is it to realize Nazis are the bad guys?

The Damned Women: Delphine & Hippolyta. Les Fleurs du Mal, Baudelaire tr Poochigan #poetrysunday

You’ll need a lot initiative to lift that great weight, Sisyphus. However much one works for success, Art takes time and Life is brief. Bad Luck, Baudelaire tr Poochigan. Ms. Seyrig to read to thwart NFL. #poetrysunday

Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig 1977 Katja Raganelli. Powerful feminist documentation. DS — a French woman born in Beirut speaking English to a Croatian speaking German — is 100% simplicity & clarity belying a complex brilliance. W 2 cats: blanc & noir

A star is someone who makes a lot of money for the producers. I don’t make any money for the producers. Delphine Seyrig

Cinema fans… our work is cut out for us. # of acting credits: Kinuyo Tanaka 222 Hideko Takemine 181 Jeanne Moreau 150 Catherine Deneuve 149 Setsuko Hara 112 Monica Vitti 62 Delphine Seyrig 60 Ingrid Bergman 54 Anna Magnani 52

I am 3 hours and 45 minutes into reading Moby Dick alongside 2,000 strangers at the annual Moby Dick marathon in New Bedford, MA. 🐳 Just 21 hours left to go! Can I make it?

You’ll need a lot initiative to lift that great weight, Sisyphus. However much one works for success, Art takes time and Life is brief. Bad Luck, Baudelaire tr Poochigan. Ms. Seyrig to read to thwart NFL. #poetrysunday

For next many Tuesdays (7PM) will be teaching from the Shantideva 8th century classic. @ Menlha Center in Lambertville NJ

Madame Stretter strutting a Momma Roma

“You’ve raised savages in this savage America.” Reminiscer in Chantal Akerman’s 1989 Histoires d’Amerique

4 Delphine Seyrigs in India Song. Riffing off Sirk (and well beyond) the mirror displays major (meta)physics

Cinema fans… our work is cut out for us. # of acting credits: Kinuyo Tanaka 222 Hideko Takemine 181 Jeanne Moreau 150 Catherine Deneuve 149 Setsuko Hara 112 Monica Vitti 62 Delphine Seyrig 60 Ingrid Bergman 54 Anna Magnani 52

Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig 1977. (Criterion has a bit of Katja Raganelli’s doc). Here seen w her usual monk cool — with & shedding some light on Marguerite Duras.

Madam Stretter appears (& thus Delphine Seyrig appears)

Great to have these. Deleuze with the density of a planet, brilliance of a star… not always where you want to land

“Oh dear… if only I could be his sister” Big for Bluesky bit of Oblomov. At times Goncharov like Dostoyevsky meets Austen

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? William Blake, 18th century #Photography #Wisdom #Mystical #Poetry #SpeirGorm #India #Birds #Caturday #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Iconic Osaka Castle in Japan

4 Delphine Seyrigs in India Song. Riffing off Sirk (and well beyond) the mirror displays major (meta)physics

time, space & color in India Song 1975 Marguerite Duras. (I shall introduce Delphine Seyrig as the day goes along ;))

Madam Stretter appears (& thus Delphine Seyrig appears)

time, space & color in India Song 1975 Marguerite Duras. (I shall introduce Delphine Seyrig as the day goes along ;))

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Love Chantal Akerman’s color palette in Histoires d’Amerique

Zurbarán (1634)

#DCC2025 - Michel Piccoli 💯 * 2 "Une chambre en ville", Jacques Demy , 1982 Chef-d'œuvre 😮 @docorlof.bsky.social @zombylamouche.bsky.social @ruizvidal7.bsky.social @tbarnaud.bsky.social @foucperotin.bsky.social

Histoires d’Amerique 1989 Chantal Akerman. Extraordinary film. Jewish immigrants in NY post-holocaust. Pseudo doc ~sort of. Uniquely wonderful, uplifting, crushing. I keep being drawn to connect CA & Simone Weil

Biopics always awful, e.g.: Downey is nothing like real Tony Stark. Here Tony in a Faulknerish setting

Love Chantal Akerman’s color palette in Histoires d’Amerique

Histoires d’Amerique 1989 Chantal Akerman. Extraordinary film. Jewish immigrants in NY post-holocaust. Pseudo doc ~sort of. Uniquely wonderful, uplifting, crushing. I keep being drawn to connect CA & Simone Weil