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Film and other tricks of the light. Also wolves.
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Ballooon, mein Herr?
Eclectic blog about film — mainly but not exclusively the first 50 years of cinema. Classics such as Le Quai des Brumes, Mädchen in Uniform, Alice in the Cities; Alternative Christmas films; Animals ...
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Great to see the Carry On franchise has been revived again.
#WutheringHeights
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Animation from a Victorian Magic Lantern slip slide. A clown throwing a baby up and catching it.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™
7 days ago
Emil van Hauth (German, 1899–1974) "Portrait of Grit Hegesa", 1925. Oil on Canvas, 93 × 73.5 cm. Grit Hegesa (1891–1972) was a German Dancer and Silent Film Actress. The National Gallery, London.
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#painting
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Maude Adams (1872-1953) as Napoleon the Third. Original vintage postcard.
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#War
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"UNDEAD WRONG" My letter about the ending of Del Toro's Frankenstein .
#MaryShelley
#Frankenstein
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London Review of Books
12 days ago
‘Who did the first monochrome? The first black painting? Whose pictorial ground was the first to be “incident-free”? Who invented “the open space concept”? Newman claimed them all.’ Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman.
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Hal Foster · Zip it: Barnett Newman’s Anarchism
For Barnett Newman, what was required was a new kind of painting produced ‘as if painting never existed before’, a...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/hal-foster/zip-it
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"THE FOOTPRINTS OF A GIGANTIC HOUND" In the Soviet version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov, Lenfilm 1981), the discovery of the body is located in a snowy wood and not, as in Conan Doyle's novel, a formal yew alley. Yevgeny Steblov as Dr. Mortimer.
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PIPE DREAM Alla Demidova as Laura Lyons in the Soviet (Lenfilm) Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov, 1981). Probably the coolest Mrs Lyons in any filmed version of Sherlock Holmes' most well-known novel.
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Trump engages Russian design consultancy to oversee the refurbishment of the Kennedy Centre.
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
15 days ago
3. The Expression of Hands (1987). "Would film have developed its own sign language had silent film lasted longer?" Farocki asks this in a work all about the expressive labor performed by hands in film. This is a wonderful film, that finds poetry in moments made for utility and visa-versa.
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Ballooon, mein Herr?
Eclectic blog about film — mainly but not exclusively the first 50 years of cinema. Classics such as Le Quai des Brumes, Mädchen in Uniform, Alice in the Cities; Alternative Christmas films; Animals ...
https://www.ballooonmeinherr.org/
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Visual Anthropology and the City (Online) - Open City Documentary Festival
This course usually runs once or twice per year. If you have questions please consult our new FAQs page before contacting us. We have also updated policies for course costs/concessions and bursaries, ...
https://opencitylondon.com/courses/visual-anthropology-and-the-city-2/
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Máret Ánne Sara: 'Goavve-Geabbil' in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern
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Robin Baker
22 days ago
Essential reading for anyone who cares about the presentation of classic film (or, indeed, get irked when subjects better filmed in landscape format are shot in portrait). Great article by
@pamhutch.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/film/comment...
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Hitchcock’s The Lodger has been turned into a vertical microdrama. What’s next – Psycho on Snapchat?
A silent-era classic has been reframed for the vertical scroll of phone screens. Is this innovation, sacrilege, or just another way to repackage cinema history?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/commentisfree/2026/jan/28/alfred-hitchcock-the-lodger-tattle-tv-microdrama
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Facade of the Atlantic Cinema, St-Martin-de-Ré, Île de Ré, France. 2004.
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HAND SHADOW PUPPETS: Pig, Woman in bonnet, Turtle, Wolf, Man in felt hat, Small dog. If you try this at home always be sure you have a fireman standing by. Also a physiotherapist.
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Charlie Largent
27 days ago
BTD - Conrad Veidt - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - 1920 - German release poster
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Antique Superheroes
27 days ago
A scene from the 'Freak Ballet' choreographed by George Balanchine, 1930
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JVG 骨
about 1 month ago
would anyone like to appreciate my collection of 100 year old Sessue Hayakawa trading cards
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William Gibson
about 1 month ago
If you were going to be teleported there and back, and could only enter one place, I’d suggest Dennis Severs’ House, 18 Folgate Street, a Spitalfields row house refurbished to look and feel as if its 18th/19th century residents have only just stepped out for a moment. Extraordinarily experience.
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Casfetera 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱
about 1 month ago
"Here. Hare. Here".
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Dressing up and pleased with it.
#BOTD
Kathleen Byron (1921) and Valeska Gert (1892) share a birthday. Byron in Black Narcissus (Powell Pressburger, 1947) Gert in Joyless Street/Die freudlose Gasse (Pabst. 1925)
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Who nose? Christel Bodenstein as the Princess in The Singing Ringing Tree/Das singende, klingende Bäumchen.(Francesco Stefani, 1957, GDR).
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#fairytale
#prosthetics
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Lindsay Kemp as a (the?) Devil in Kate Bush's "The Line the Cross and the Curve". (1993, Kate Bush. DOP Roger Pratt) As well as Kate Bush and Kemp, the film stars Miranda Richardson and a lot of flames and studio fog. Kemp was once described by a critic as "a legend in his own programme notes".
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Béla Tarr
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Magic lantern slip slide. Sliding glass plates in a hardwood frame provide a simple animation when projected. A crossing sweeper holds out his hat for a tip.
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The great Ethel Barrymore. Edwardian fan postcard and as Mrs Warren in Robert Siodmak's gothic thriller The Spiral Staircase (1945)
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Jonathan Jones here, polishing his credentials as the Liz Truss of art criticism. The point of the scale of Máret Ánne Sara's installation is that it doesn't "impose itself" on its environment, in contrast to the former oil-fired power station it sits in and the industry that fed it.
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Harpya (1978) Raoul Servais
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about 2 months ago
The first full moon of 2026 is known as the
#WolfMoon
when the wolves howl with hunger. Kiki Smith, Cathedral, 2012, jacquard tapestry
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Natalie Bennett
about 2 months ago
My latest Substack is out, some "picks" to listen to, read and otherwise enjoy, ranging from classical column forms to Mexico City waste water, but majoring on wolves as agents in their own, and our, future
nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
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Facade of the Atlantic Cinema, St-Martin-de-Ré, Île de Ré, France. 2004.
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From 2018: alternative Christmas films including Clouzot’s 'Quai des Orfèvres'. Would definitely add 'The Ice Tower' now. Glad to see BFI Southbank now include 'Carol' in their Christmas programme.
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It's a wonderful wife — Christmas films and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Quai des Orfèvres
Christmas viewing for people who have seen enough of "It's a Wonderful Life"
https://www.ballooonmeinherr.org/home/snowflake
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From 2018: alternative Christmas films including Clouzot’s 'Quai des Orfèvres'. Would definitely add 'The Ice Tower' now. Glad to see BFI Southbank now include 'Carol' in their Christmas programme.
www.ballooonmeinherr.org/home/snowflake
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It's a wonderful wife — Christmas films and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Quai des Orfèvres
Christmas viewing for people who have seen enough of "It's a Wonderful Life"
https://www.ballooonmeinherr.org/home/snowflake
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2 months ago
Lantern Parade (late 19thc) by Danish painter Anne Sophie Petersen (1845-1910)
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Rachel Dale
3 months ago
While I wouldn't go as far as calling this tool use, it's certainly a clever way of acquiring food (check out the video in the article) 🐺
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Have wild wolves learned to use tools?
Video captures a lone female pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use?
https://www.science.org/content/article/have-wild-wolves-learned-use-tools
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Helen Czerski
2 months ago
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Observer readers' poll to respond to their list of the best 25 films of the century so far. Just suggested Victor Erice's "Close Your Eyes" as my one that should've made it onto the list but didn't.
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The Observer's best films of the 21st century
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
https://www.smartsurvey.com/t/the-observers-best-films-of-the-21st-century/
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The Guardian
2 months ago
‘My God, what a story it would make’: film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley
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‘My God, what a story it would make’: film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley
Brownlow is best known for restoring silent movies, but in conjunction with Andrew Mollo, he made two features, in 1964 and 1975, that look astonishingly prescient today
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/my-god-what-a-story-it-would-make-film-maker-kevin-brownlow-on-it-happened-here-and-winstanley?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764980102
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#War
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Weimar Film Network
3 months ago
Join us at the University of Warwick next week for a free screening of Die freudlose Gasse as part of Dr. Ian Roberts' Weimar 100 project! Registration here:
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/EShTmXnxZF
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You should all have kept your CDs and cassette tapes, shouldn't you.
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Thoml
3 months ago
CLOUZOT Henri-Georges Top5 films 1- Le salaire de la peur 2- Le corbeau 3- Les diaboliques 4- Quai des orfèvres 5- L'assassin habite au 21
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Sybille Schmitz, botd 1909. Unforgettable in Dryer's 'Vampyr' and Pabst's 'Diary of a Lost Girl.' Sad inspiration for Fassbinder's 'Veronika Voss'.
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London Review of Books
3 months ago
Our next LRB Screen film is the Artangel film 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in east and south London, including Brixton market and Billingsgate fish market. Mon 08 December, 8 p.m. The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden Find out more:
www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
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#TomStoppard
RIP
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Happy Birthday, William Blake!
#BunhillFields
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Bed of Crimson Joy
For William Blake. From photographs taken at Bunhill Fields, London on William Blake's birthday, 2014. Music by Kassi Wolf. 3mins19secs.
https://vimeo.com/128375983?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
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Máret Ánne Sara: 'Goavve-Geabbil' in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern
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Eye For Film
3 months ago
A rural community in the Pyrenees comes into conflict with ecological plans in The Shepherd And The Bear
www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-s...
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The Shepherd And The Bear - Film Review - Eye For Film
Documentary exploring a conflict after the re-introduction of brown bears into the traditional shepherding community of the Pyrenees.
https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-shepherd-and-the-bear-2025-film-review-by-jennie-kermode
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