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The Witch of Endor painting detail from 1857 by Dmitri Nikiforovich Martynov

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“The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture’s patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language’s rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people’s gestures and movements.”

— Ken Liu, Translator’s Postscript to The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin.

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There have been many times when I plunge into solitude looking in abandoned bottles for messages that do not arrive.

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How am I to protect my wax built castles of love from the devouring heat of your fires?

THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969) dir. Sergei Parajanov

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Hero of Labor”

﹙ Text ID: I’ll cry about this earth in heaven too.﹚

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Jennifer Saunders, from “When the Guest Speaker Told Us“

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1. The Lovers of Valdaro are a 6,000 year old Neolithic skeleton couple who were found buried together in Mantua, Italy. 

 They were both around 20, both 5′2, and had no physical trauma evident in their bones. They were buried with flint tools. Their limbs are entwined in an endless embrace.

2. The Hasanlu Lovers are 2,800 year skeletons found locked in an eternal kiss in Solduz Valley, Iran. 

 The body on its back was around 20 years old, and the other skeleton was around 30 and showed signs of injury on the right side of their body. They were found in a plaster grain bin, most likely hiding from soldiers in a raid, and asphyxiated during this time.

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SUBLIME CINEMA #301 - ARRIVAL

Denis Villeneuve is one of the most interesting new gen filmmakers to come along for a while, along with the Safdie Brothers, Celine Sciamma, Chloe Zhao, and a select few others. There is not a windfall of new young talent with their own particular artistic signatures, but Villeneuve has specialized in epic, stark landscapes, and vast worlds of a dark unknown for over a decade. He now commands bigger budgets than his contemporaries could dream of. His earliest short ‘The Next Floor’, looked inspired by Roy Andersson, but then he pared down the elements to some kind of pure essential starkness which seems distinctly his. Mixed results ensued - Incendies, Sicario, Prisoners and Arrival approach masterpiece material, and show an artist in command of his talent. Blade Runner 2049 was haphazard, Polytechnique polarizing. But he’s an artist I will go out of my way to watch. 

Arrival is a great science fiction film, thought provoking, hauntingly beautiful. and Villeneuve’s last collaboration with sublime composer Johann Johansson before he passed away tragically, way too young. 

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it’s not ‘talking to myself’ it’s called a soliloquy you fuck

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Marie Trintignant in Série noire, 1979.

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Julie Delpy as Céline Before Sunrise (1995) dir. Richard Linklater

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“The first film [Before Sunrise] is about what could be, the second [Before Sunset] is about what should have been. Before Midnight is about what it is.”

– Ethan Hawke THE BEFORE TRILOGY, dir. Richard Linklater.

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Willy Becquaert -  Girl watching the seagulls