#albert du bois

[looney-mooney-studio]

Okay. So. Y’all remember that Phineas and Ferb Homestuck Trolls AU? SummerStuck? Yeah. Uhhh. Image ID in Alt Text, lots of words under the cut:

I realized that since Alternia still exists in this au, and that means Doc Scratch exists as well. But this is an au where there’s three planets in the Alternian Solar System that contain mother grubs and troll children - Beforus, Alternia, and Druselstein - which means three First Guardians. Who better in the Dwampyverse to embody the creepy watchful “benevolent” guardians of the cosmos than the Dubois brothers?

In a narrative sense, Beforus was the first planet, so Albert was the first first guardian. Then Alternia was established, bringing Doc Scratch, then far more recently Druselstein was colonized, bringing Irving. From a meta perspective, however (which is really all creatures like these care about), Irving was the first of the three to be conceived in the Phineas and Ferb concept book back in the 90s, with Doc Scratch not being thought up until 2009 and Albert not showing up until 2010.

I made Albert based on the design he had in “Steampunx,” but kept his shoes, hair, and glasses closer to his modern design. Irving’s just Irving. I considered making his head look like a Rubix Cube, but it was hard to make him recognizably Irving that way. I imagine he’ll get a vaguer face the older he gets. I thought it would also be fun if the other two guardians had affinities for other aspects, like how Doc Scratch has an affinity for Light players. So Albert has an affinity for Life players, and Irving has an affinity for Void players.

And yes I know this is weird and obscure and kinda cringe but you know what? Sometimes you just have to let yourself draw stuff that doesn't matter.

[enteringdullsville]

Doofenshmirtz used Curse!

There’s probably someone else I’m forgetting (I left Linda and Larry out because everyone would disappear if I brought the former and I didn’t want her to be the only one absent), but this should be at LEAST all the regulars. Also, I’m kicking myself for not giving Doof Arena Trap as an ability.

Also, I didn’t write it up there, but Irving’s line are Ghost types.

Yes, I made a Sparklet form for each main Fireside. (The one with the “ponytail” is Ginger. It’s floating up because fire)

I hate how perfectly Norm and Suzy’s designs work with each other.

[mishtergoose]

Both of them are characters I can't stand cuz their pretty awful

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

María Casares (Ladies of the Park, Orpheus, Children of Paradise)—Spanish-born French actress María Casares was a distinguished star of French stage and screen, appearing in notable films like Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise, Robert Bresson's Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, and (my favorite) Jean Cocteau's Orpheus as the unforgettable enigmatic Princess/[spoiler]. She's one of those people who just kept getting more beautiful as she aged because the depth and richness of her personality and the interesting life she lead shows in her expressions. She had a long and stormy affair with Albert Camus and they wrote each other a lot of passionate and poetic letters that you can look up if you're into that sort of thing.

Lotus Long (Tokyo Rose, Last of the Pagans, Think Fast Mr Moto)— Look at those doe-like eyes! Her abundant hair! Her perfect Cupid's bow!

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut—spoiler for Jean Cocteau's Orpheus included, if you don't want to be spoiled don't click this]

María Casares:

In Orphée she's death and he falls in love with her. She also dated Camus and they'd write things like "My thoughts are the color of your hair. Monday and a few days thereafter, they will be the color of your eyes."

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

taylor swift lyrics x colors x textiles in art – blue

Tim McGraw – Taylor Swift // Portrait of Marie-Joseph Peyre – Marie-Suzanne Giroust 💙 Tim McGraw – Taylor Swift // Lady in the Boudoir – Gustav Holweg-Glantschnigg 💙 A Place in This World – Taylor Swift // Portrait of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester – Jean-Étienne Liotard 💙 Dear John – Speak Now // Young Woman in a Blue Dress – Jacopo Negretti 💙 State of Grace – Red // Portrait of Mrs. Matthew Tilghman and her Daughter – John Hesselius 💙 Red – Red // An Unknown Man – Joseph Highmore 💙 All Too Well – Red // Portrait of a Man with a Quilted Sleeve – Titian 💙 Everything Has Changed – Red // Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul – Jean-Baptiste Greuze 💙 Starlight – Red // Mrs. Richard Brown – John Hesselius 💙 Run – Red // Judith with the Head of Holofernes – Felice Ficherelli 💙 This Love – 1989 // Fair Rosamund – John William Waterhouse 💙 Delicate – Reputation // Miss Elizabeth Ingram – Joshua Reynolds 💙 Gorgeous – Reputation // Marguerite Hessein, Lady of Rambouillet de la Sablière – workshop of Henri and Charles Beaubrun 💙 Dancing with Our Hands Tied – Reputation // George Albert, Prince of East Frisia – Johann Conrad Eichler

Cruel Summer – Lover // Peter August Friedrich von Koskull – Michael Ludwig Claus 💙 Lover – Lover // Lady Oxenden – Joseph Wright of Derby 💙 Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince – Lover // Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi – Alexander Roslin 💙 Paper Rings – Lover // Young Woman in a Blue Dress – Jacopo Negretti 💙 London Boy – Lover // Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson – Anthony van Dyck 💙 Afterglow – Lover // Portrait of Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn – Fyodor Rokotov 💙 Christmas Tree Farm – Christmas Tree Farm // Portrait of Mary Ruthven, Lady van Dyck – Anthony van Dyck 💙 invisible string – folklore // Two Altar Wings with the Visitation of Mary – unknown artist 💙 invisible string – folklore // Portrait of Madame de Pompadour – François Boucher 💙 peace – folklore // Fair Rosamund – John William Waterhouse 💙 hoax – folklore // Portrait of Charles le Normant du Coudray – Jean-Baptiste Perronneau 💙 coney island – evermore // Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul – Jean-Baptiste Greuze 💙 Carolina – Carolina // Mrs. Daniel Sargent – John Singleton Copley 💙 Bejeweled – Midnights // Elsa Elisabeth Brahe – David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl 💙 The Great War – Midnights // Portrait of Françoise Marie de Bourbon – attributed to François de Troy 💙 Hits Different – Midnights // Mrs. Benjamin Pickman – John Singleton Copley

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in February 2024

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson 🧡 The Paper Boys by D.P. Clarence 💛 Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada 💚 Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine 💙 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair 💜 Clarion Call by Cayla Fay ❤️ Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman 🧡 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton 💛 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong 💙 Outsider by Jade du Preez 💜 Cross My Candy Heart by A.C. Thomas 🌈 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

❤️ An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson 🧡 The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Ann Older 💛 Never a Bridesmaid by Spencer Greene 💚 The Rewind by Nicole Stiling 💙 Good Christian Girls by Elizabeth Bradshaw 💜 The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha ❤️ The Terrible by Tessa Crowley 🧡 Blood Rage by Ileandra Young 💛 Call of the Sea by Emily B. Rose 💙 Sign Me Up by C.H. Williams 💜 Ways and Means by Daniel Lefferts 🌈 Peaceful in the Dark by A.A. Fairview

❤️ We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards 🧡 Dead Ringer by Robyn Nyx 💛 Somacultural Liberation by Dr. Roger Kuhn 💚 Stormbringer by Erinn Harper 💙 A Saga of Shields & Shadows by A.J. Shirley 💜 Ghost Town by R.E. Ward ❤️ I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante 🧡 The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor 💛 Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr 💙 Bloom by N.R. Walker 💜 Entwined by Alex Alberto 🌈 Queer Newark edited by Whitney Strub

❤️ Tristan by Jesse Roman 🧡 How to Live Free in a Dangerous World by Shayla Lawson 💛 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos 💚 Of Socialites & Prizefights by Arden Powell 💙 Lost Harbor by Kimberly Cooper Griffin 💜 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee ❤️ Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert 🧡 How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly 💛 Blackmailer’s Delight by David Lawrence 💙 Tile M for Murder by Felicia Carparelli 💜 Impulse Buy by Jae 🌈 Live for You, Die With You by Kalob Dàniel

❤️ Fairest of All by A.D. Ellis 🧡 Goddess of the Sea by Britney Jackson 💛 A Taste of Earth by Nico Silver 💚 The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by M.Z. Emily Zack 💙 How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith 💜 V is for Valentine by Thomas Grant Bruso ❤️ Crushed Ice by Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James 🧡 When Tomorrow Comes by D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Bugsy & Other Stories by Rafael Frumkin 💙 The White and Blue Between Us by Kiyuhiko 💜 Guide Us Home by CF Frizzell & Jesse J. Thoma 🌈 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett

❤️ Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender 🧡 Heart2Heart edited by Annabeth Albert 💛 No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub 💚 Bless the Blood by Walela Nehanda 💙 Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter 💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops ❤️ Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt 🧡 Mewing by Chloe Spencer 💛 Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault 💙 Born of Scourge by S. Jean 💜 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb 🌈 To Cage a God by Elizabeth May

❤️ Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly 🧡 What Feasts At Night by T. Kingfisher 💛 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden 💚 Turning Point by Cathy Dunnell 💙 For the Stolen Fates by Gwendolyn Clare 💜 Season of Eclipse by Terry Wolverton ❤️ These Haunted Hills by Jana Denardo 🧡 Samson & Domingo by Gume Laurel III 💛 Lies that Bind by Rae Knowles & April Yates 💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller 💜 The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa 🌈 Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

❤️ Out There by Iris Eliot 🧡 At Her Service by Amy Spalding 💛 Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

[themousefromfantasyland]

A Fairy Tale Rabbit Hole

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the movie that it started it all for Disney Animation and it's the most influential fairy tale movie ever. Its tropes and its tone still inspires fairy tale media to this day, either as parodies, or homages.

But what less people know is that Walt Disney was inspired to make this movie because of a peculiar silent movie that he watched when he was a teenager.

That movie was Snow White from 1916. Its writer, Winthrop Ames, adapted it from his own Broadway play. An example of American fairy tale theater.

This kept me thinking.

The Wizard of Oz is one of the most iconic fantasy films of all time, and it was made in direct response to Snow White. What people don't know is that the scene where Glinda saves the gang from the deadly poppies with a snowstorm came straight from a fairy tale musical from 1902. It came from The Wizard of Oz, a fairy tale musical "extravaganza", with direct input from L. Frank Baum, only two years after the original novel.

Actually, stage musicals seem to take a slight part in the creation of Oz. The Marvellous Land of Oz, the sequel, seems to be inspired by this stage culture. General Jinjur and her army dresses like chorus girls, Ozma/Tip may be inspired by the crossdressing in children roles, and this was the book's dedication:

"To those excellent good fellows and comedians David C. Montgomery and Frank A. Stone whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children throughout the land, this book is gratefully dedicated by THE AUTHOR"

These were actors of the 1902 stage show.

Two years later, on 1904 Peter and Wendy premiered. This play is also one of the most famous children stories ever. Walt Disney himself acted as Peter in a local production of it and Tinkerbell quickly became a mascot for the studio.

This all led me to think more about fairy tale theater specifically.

Since the ending of the 18th century and through the 19th century, a genre of stage show developed through Europe. It was mostly comedic and light-hearted, mainly inspired by fairy tales, and it was geared towards children and families. It involved lavish fantasy spectacles told through operas, ballets, and what we today would call "musical theater".

It had many different names and variations depending on the country.

On England, it evolved through the pantomimes and it became a Christmas tradition.

In Russian, it was mainly through ballet, called the ballet-féerie, often considered a lower-class, more commercialized entertainment than traditional ballet. Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker are among some of them. Sleeping Beauty would later inspire Disney's telling of the story.

In France they were called Féerie, and it was a mix of music, dancing, pantomime, acrobatics, and stage effects. It influenced the development of burlesque, musical comedy and film.

From Wikipedia:

With his 1899 film version of Cinderella, Georges Méliès brought the féerie into the newly developing world of motion pictures. The féerie quickly became one of film's most popular and lavishly mounted genres in the early years of the twentieth century, with such pioneers as Edwin S. Porter, Cecil Hepworth, Ferdinand Zecca, and Albert Capellani contributing fairy-tale adaptations in the féerie style or filming versions of popular stage féeries like Le Pied de mouton, Les Sept Châteaux du diable, and La Biche au bois. The leader in the genre, however, remained Méliès,[37] who designed many of his major films as féeries and whose work as a whole is intensely suffused with the genre's influence.[38]

Once you realize a huge chunk of fairy tale media has roots in family friendly stage shows from 19th century, a lot of it started making sense.

The focus on romance, the focus on damsels in distress, prevalence of lighter tones, the everlasting connection to music and dance.

They may be the main reason why some fairy tales are more famous than others. Some became source material for a continuous stream of operas, operettas, musical extravaganzas, ballets, plays, and others simply not.

And besides the Victorian Era storybooks that bowdlerized fairy tales for children, I think this whole genre of the theater was responsible to firmly establish fairy tales as a child friendly media, decades before Disney ever released Snow White to cash in that nostalgia.

If you have something to add or if I just got something wrong, feel free to correct me.

@ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @adarkrainbow @the-blue-fairie @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @natache @tamisdava2 @thealmightyemprex

[thirdteeth]

♡ Books to Read ♡

girl, interrupted - susanna kaysen

the beguiled - thomas cullinan

my year of rest and relaxation - ottessa moshfegh

girl in pieces - kathleen glasgow

women who run with wolves - clarissa pinkola estés

pride and prejudice - jane austen

the bell jar - sylvia plath

the secret history - donna tartt

black swans - eve babitz

severance - ling ma

beloved trilogy - toni morrison

bad behavior - mary gaitskill

the year of magical thinking - joan didion

there there - tommy orange

valley of the dolls - jacqueline susann

american psycho - bret easton ellis

requiem for a dream - hubert selby jr.

ariel - sylvia plath

lolita - vladimir nabokov

anna karenina - leo tolstoy

rebecca - daphne du maurier

the virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides

gone with the wind - margaret mitchell

the interpretation of dreams - sigmund freud

the stranger - albert camus

madness and civilization - michel foucault

the woman destroyed - simone de beauvoir

just kids - patti smith

to the lighthouse - virginia woolf

play it as it lays - joan didion

gone girl - gillian flynn

normal people - sally rooney

prozac nation - elizabeth wurtzel

how to murder your life - cat marnell

the catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger

love is a dog from hell - charles bukowski

jane eyre - charlotte brontë

her body and other parties - carmen maria machado

eileen - ottessa moshfegh

bunny - mona awad

little women - louisa may alcott

the perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky

homesick for another world - ottessa moshfegh

frankenstein - mary shelley

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

diary of an oxygen thief - anonymous

boy parts - eliza clark

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid

a room of one's own - virginia wolf

mrs. dalloway - virginia wolf

wuthering heights - emily brontë

slouching towards bethlehem - joan didion

the white album - joan didion

trick mirror: reflections on self-delusion - jia tolentino

the idiot - elif batuman

1984 - george orwell

sense and sensibility - jane austen

the handmaid's tale - margaret atwood

the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald

city of girls - elizabeth gilbert

animal - lisa taddeo

a certain hunger - chelsea g. summers

in the dream house - carmen maria machado

the new me - halle butler

death in her hands - ottessa moshfegh

norwegian wood - haruki murakami

the feminine mystique - betty friedan

[josefavomjaaga]

Jérôme's duel

Ever since I made that post for @flowwochair about Eugène and Jérôme I have wondered about the source of the story about Jérôme’s duel with Davout’s brother. I’ve found it on several web pages and even on Jérôme’s Wikipedia page, but always without a source. So I’m not sure if I have really found the earliest mention, but it’s my best bet so far:

Mémoires et correspondance du roi Jérôme et de la reine Catherine, Vol. 1+2 by … Albert DuCasse. The single most annoying editor of the Second Empire, as far as I am concerned. (He also published Eugène’s and Joseph’s correspondence.)

The memoirs’ part seem to have been written by DuCasse himself, and it has several anecdotes I’d read before, the story about the expensive nécessaire (though in this case I prefer a German version that is even funnier), the one about the sabre of Marengo and also the one about the duel. So, here’s what DuCasse has to say about it:

A few days after this little scene [i.e., the sabre of Marengo story], Jérôme was incorporated into the consular guard, the chasseurs à cheval, as a private soldier. He did not stay there for long. Having quarrelled with a young man of the same age, a brother of general Davout, he had the most bizarre and dangerous duel with him. They both agreed to go to the Bois de Vincennes, armed with a pair of pommel pistols and a packet of cartridges in their pockets. There, they took up positions twenty-five paces apart and, sitting on the ground, fired until one of them was wounded! Jérôme was hit in the chest by a bullet that flattened out on the sternum and embedded itself in the bone. It was removed sixty years later, after his death, when his body was embalmed! The First Consul was extremely moved on learning of the danger his brother had run, and expressed his deep dissatisfaction that such a duel between two young men barely out of childhood had not been stopped. He withdrew Jérôme from the consular guard, and perhaps eagerly seized this pretext to open up for his brother a career more in keeping with the new politics he foresaw.

Some things I was wondering:

I don’t think Jérôme really entered the guard as a simple soldier. This would have been completely out of tune with Napoleon’s usual behaviour towards his brothers, especially seeing as later during Jérôme’s career he will have his baby brother rise through the ranks in record time. I also don’t think an officer like Davout’s brother would have duelled with a simple soldier? I imagine Jérôme entered the guard as a sous-lieutenant, just like Eugène had a couple of years earlier.

If he really belonged to the chasseurs-à-cheval, he must have been under Eugène’s direct command. Ouch. (Plus, Eugène probably grounded until next year for not having found out and prevented Jérôme’s duel in time.)

Maybe I am mistaken about this as I have not read up much on Davout, but I seem to be unable to find a brother of Davout’s who was close in age to Jérôme? The two brothers mentioned on Wikipedia both would have been in their twenties in 1800. That's a far cry from "barely out of childhood". Most accounts of this incident also state that the quarrel was about a woman (Jérôme was 15 years old!) and that it was Jérôme who challenged his opponent (again - 15 years old!), though I do not know where this bit of information comes from.

In any case, if this duel had really been provoked by Jérôme I could see why Napoleon considered some disciplinary measures necessary.

By the way, these memoirs also repeat the claim that Eugène was held up as an example to Jérôme by the Bonaparte brothers:

Jérôme, spoilt by his mother and Joséphine, found affectionate correctors in his two eldest siblings, Joseph and Lucien, and as Eugène de Beauharnais's adolescence had always been marked by precocious calm and reason, it was his example that the two brothers invariably preached to their younger brother, who was full of vivacity and foolhardiness.

Yes, I could see how that might poison a friendship.

[beardedmrbean]

Hey you know that color hat with a fan on it boys wear like in cartoons? Does anyone knows where that trope came from and why? Is it from the 50’s or something?

The name “propeller-head” is used nowadays for a technophile, sometimes disparagingly, for an enthusiast of technology and (according to the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary) especially of computers. In images, the modern geek may be satirized with a cap having one or two toy propellers mounted to spin horizontally above the top of the hat.

So, was this flamboyant hat originated in the flower-powered hippie era of the 1960s? Well, no - decades earlier, in fact. It is generally accepted to have been first improvised in Cadillac, Michigan, using a beanie (a visorless cap) in 1947, made by Ray Faraday Nelson. It quickly became an icon for science fiction fans to identify themselves, and a national fad.

In a published interview1, Nelson described how “In the summer of 1947, I was holding a regional science fiction convention in my front room and it culminated with myself and some Michigan fans dressing up in some improvised costumes to take joke photographs, simulating the covers of science fiction magazines. The headgear which I designed for the space hero was the first propeller beanie. It was made out of pieces of plastic, bit of coat-hanger wire, some beads, a propeller from a model airplane, and staples to hold it together.” Shortly thereafter, it was worn by George Young of Detroit at a world convention, where it was an enormous hit.

Nelson thereafter frequently drew cartoons for fanzines portraying science fiction fans wearing propeller beanies. In 1948, Artist Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958) painted a “Boy with a propeller beanie” hovering some feet up in the air above what looks like perhaps a sandy beach.

Shortly, it was further popularized by a television program, Time For Beany (video). The show was hugely popular with children, and even adults. The title character was a propeller beanie-wearing puppet named Beany whose sock-puppet friend called Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent was voiced and controlled by an unknown Stan Freeberg!) Starting in 1949, it ran five times a week for five years. It was hugely popular with children, and even some adults (including Albert Einstein, according to a Stan Freeberg reminiscence) (video). That idea of Bruce Sedley on KTLA in Los Angeles, California, was produced by Disney animator, Bob Clampett, who soon followed up with a syndicated, animated cartoon series of Beany and Cecil, in which Beany's propeller enabled him to fly (video).

Nelson went on to become a professional writer of novels and short stories. He made no profit from the fad of sales of beanie hats that followed from his idea.

In the summer of 1947, while still in high school, science fiction fanzine artist Ray Nelson, per his claim, invented the propeller beanie as part of a "space man" costume on a lark with some friends. He later drew it in his cartoons as emblematic shorthand for science fiction fandom. The hat became a fad, seen in media such as "Time for Beanie", and was sold widely by many manufacturers over the next decade.[11]

The propeller beanie increased in popular use through comics and eventually made its way onto the character of Beany Boy of Beany and Cecil. Today, computer savvy and other technically proficient people are sometimes pejoratively called propellerheads because of the one-time popularity of the propeller beanie.

In 1996, student hackers placed a giant propeller beanie on the Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The scaled-up propeller rotated as the wind drove it like a windmill.

Propeller beanie drew laughs from Belgian workmen as they unpacked display shipments to show “How America Lives” for the U.S. exhibit at the Brussels Fair, as shown in Life magazine (31 Mar 1958). (source)

______________________________ there's a good amount of this I didn't know, the article at the top goes on further and further too if you're interested I just hit the opening point of who's claimed to have originated it and why, which the wiki article has too.

[midnightcowboy1969]

My bookshelf

Hey, @beanifred <3 So, here's a big peak at my bookshelf (way too many books as I said)

Beginning with my treasures:

The "Real" Bob Steele and a man called "Brad" by Bob Nareau

The Photostory of "Battling Bob" Bob Steele by Mario DeMarco

2. The Columbo Collection

Just One More thing by Peter Falk

The Grassy Knoll by William Harrington (my enemy)

Murder by the Book by Steven Bochco

And now there's chaos:

3.

Psycho 1 & 2 and Night-World by Robert Bolch (Norwegian edition)

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

The Body Snatcher by Jack Finney

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Trash by Dorothy Allison (lesbian but at what cost)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Buddah of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (I also have American Gods but I cannot find it)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

The Complete Short Stories: Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie

Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

The Hunter by Richard Stark

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The System by John Burke (novelization)

Alien Nation by Alan Dean Foster (novelization)

Edge of the City by Fredrick Pohl (novelization)

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Collector by John Fowels

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (Norwegian edition)

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (novelization)

Ninteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Wanderer by Sterling Hayden (the actor)

The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy & Anthony Shaffer (Novelization (?))

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

4.

Terror by Dan Simmons

Papillon 1 & 2 by Henri Charrière (Norwegian editions)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (book of all time)

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Midnight Cowboy by John L. Herlihy

Shooting Midnight Cowboy by Glenn Frankel

Cape Fear by John D. McDonald (watch the movies)

The Bretheren by John Grisham (Norwegian edition)

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorgood

Glitz by Elmore Leonard (Norwegian edition)

The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler (the other novels are Farwell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Client by John Grisham (Norwegian edition)

Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Legion (Exorcist 2) by William Peter Blatty

La Peste by Albert Camu (Norwegian edition)

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink & Jeffery Cranor (not read)

The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg

The Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle

Local Hero by David Benedictus (novelization)

The Glass Cage by Colin Wilson

American Psycho by Brett E. Ellis

Fools Die by Mario Puzo (Norwegian edition)

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Sicilian by Mario Puzo (Norwegian edition)

5.

Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (Norwegian edition) + Four different Game of Thrones books in Norwegian

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

The Betsy by Harold Robbins (Norwegian edition)

Aliens by Alan Dean Foster (novelization)

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

The Auctioneer by Joan Samson

Timeline by Michael Crichton

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Dune, The Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galxy by Douglas Adams

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

6.

Trumpet by Jackie Kay

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman (short story collection that made me dislike short stories)

Mr. Monk in Trouble by Lee Goldberg (my enemy)

Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop by Lee Goldberg (I hate him)

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolf

Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Maurice by E. M. Forster

The Case of the Gilded Lily by Erle Stanley Gardner (Norwegian edition)

The Case of the Glamorous Ghost by Erle Stanley Gardner (Norwegian edition)

Something Happened by Joseph Heller

Marathon Man by William Goldman

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Norwegian edition)

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurt

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Norwegian edition)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by John Godey (bad)

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Killing Time by Della Van Hise (Star Trek Spinoff Spirk book)

Star Trek: Department of Temportal Investigations: Forgotten History by Christopher L. Bennet

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Missing by Una McCormack

Star Trek Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic by Christopher L. Bennett

7. Stephen King Collection

Outsider

If it Bleeds

On Writing

Blaze

Carrie

The Stand

Hearts in Atlantis (Norwegian edition)

The Tommyknockers

Cujo

Thinner (Norwegian edition)

The Shining

Night Shift

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Norwegian edition)

Dreamcatcher

Doctor Sleep

Rose Madder

Pet Sematary

Christine

Salem's Lot

Dolores Claiborne (Norwegian edition)

The Bachman Books

The Institute

Insomnia

Misery

Finders Keepers

End of Watch

Firestarter

The Body

Needful Things (Norwegian edition)

Bag of Bones

8. Not pictured

A collection of Sherlock Holmes books

Many Hardy Boys books

Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie

Some comic books

I believe this is approximately everything lol.

My dream is to have a small cozy rooms dedicated to the books I own. It won't happen any time soon.

[countdowntotwinpeaks]

WONDERFULXSTRANGE NOMINATIONS SUMMARY

Nominations make up the pool of all the characters and character combos that will be offerable and requestable for the 2024 edition of the exchange. Cast list too big for TP gotdamn feet so we need this step for wieldy signups.

To nominate, fill this form with your selection of up to 8 characters or character combos. Up to 2 of your nominations can be crossovers that include Twin Peaks characters. Tulpas and assorted fragments are nominated separately. Rules, formatting and examples in link.

This page is updated with the results throughout the nominations days.

Entries are grouped by solo characters / groups / non-romantic relationships / romantic relationships / crossovers

2024 LIST:

Dale Cooper

Laura Palmer

Chester Desmond

Diane Evans

Denise Bryson

Hawk

Norma Jennings

Annie Blackburn

Harold Smith

Josie Packard

Albert Rosenfield

Sarah Palmer

Ronette Pulaski

Shelly Johnson

The Log

The thrush

Constance Talbot

Tammy Preston

The Blue Rose task force

Laura Palmer & Dale Cooper

Tammy Preston & Denise Bryson

Audrey Horne & Laura Palmer

Dale Cooper & Audrey Horne

Gordon Cole & Albert Rosenfield

Laura Palmer & Maddie Ferguson

Major Briggs&Bobby Briggs

ShellyJohnson&Becky McCauley Briggs

Diane Shapiro & Diane Evans

Sarah Palmer & Becky Burnett

Dale Cooper & Harry Truman

Audrey Horne & Denise Bryson

Annie Blackburn & Laura Palmer

Albert Rosenfield & Diane Evans

Garland Briggs & Douglas Milford

Donna Hayward & Harold Smith

Laura Palmer & Sarah Palmer

Tommy 'Hawk' Hill & Margaret Lanterman

Audrey Horne & Bobby Briggs

Audrey Horne & Pete Martell

Laura Palmer & Teresa Banks

Laura Palmer & Norma Jennings

Norma Jennings & Annie Blackburn

Audrey Horne & Laura Palmer

Margaret Lanterman & The Log

Laura Palmer & Bobby Briggs

Albert Rosenfield & Dale Cooper

Dale Cooper & Diane Evans

Lucy Moran & Phillip Jeffries

Diane Evans & Laura Palmer

Lil the Dancer & Audrey Horne

American Girl & Señorita Dido

Wally Brando & Harry Truman

Harry Truman & Frank Truman

Señorita Dido & Dale Cooper & Laura Palmer

Laura Palmer & Donna Hayward & James Hurley & Audrey Horne & Bobby Briggs

Harry Truman & Wally Brando & Lucy Moran & Andy Brennan

Laura Palmer & Donna Hayward & Shelly Johnson & Ronette Pulaski

Becky Burnett & Shelly Johnson & Bobby Briggs

Laura Palmer & Teresa Banks & Ronette Pulaski

Donna Hayward & Gersten Hayward & Harriet Hayward

Albert Rosenfield & Dale Cooper & Harry Truman

Bobby Briggs & the Bookhouse Boys

Blue Rose Team & Constance Talbot

the Roadhouse MC & Black Lodge spirits

Laura Palmer/Donna Hayward

Denise Bryson/Dale Cooper

Albert Rosenfield/Dale Cooper

Bobby Briggs/Audrey Horne

Bobby Briggs/Shelly Johnson

Bobby Briggs/Laura Palmer

Janey-E Jones/Dougie Jones

Diane Shapiro/Tommy "Hawk" Hill

Dale Cooper/Harry Truman

Harry Truman/Albert Rosenfield

Maddie Ferguson/Donna Hayward

Chantal Hutchens/Gary "Hutch" Hutchens

Laura Palmer/Donna Hayward

Laura Palmer/Ronette Pulaski

Shelly Johnson/Laura Palmer

Annie Blackburn/Laura Palmer

Margaret Lanterman/Samson Lanterman

Tammy Preston/Cynthia Knox

Dale Cooper/Albert Rosenfield/Harry Truman

Albert Rosenfield/Dale Cooper/Diane Evans

Harry Truman/Dale Cooper/Josie Packard

Josie Packard & Harry Truman/Dale Cooper

Laura Palmer/Ronette Pulaski & Teresa Banks

Albert Rosenfield & Herbert West (Re-Animator)

Laura Palmer & Jeffrey Beaumont (Blue Velvet)

Dale Cooper & Fox Mulder (The X-Files)/Dana Scully (The X-Files)

Diane Evans & Klaasje Amandou (Disco Elysium)

Dale Cooper & Harry Du Bois (Disco Elysium)

Wally Brando & Noid (Disco Elysium)

If you see any duplicates please let me know!

[musicshooterspt]

Agenda de Setembro 2023

Até dia 2 – MEO Kalorama

Parque da Bela Vista, Lisboa

Info/Bilhetes

1 – Du Nothin

Casa da Música, Porto

22:00h . Entrada Livre

Info

1 - HUH! + Úz + DJ Doraemon

DAMAS Bar, Lisboa

23:00h . 5€

Info

1 e 2 – Inferno das Febras

Parque Laser de Casais, Lousada

Entrada e Campismo Gratuito

Cartaz

1 a 3 – Do Quarto para a Rua

Jardim Municipal do Marco de Canaveses, Marco de Canaveses

Info

Entrada Livre

1 a 3 – Festa do Avante

Quinta da Atalaia, Amora

Info/Cartaz

2 – Noite Branca de Gondomar

Vários Artistas: Richie Campbell, Ivandro, entre outros

Vários Locais, Gondomar

Entrada Livre

Info/Cartaz

2 – Colos Rock Fest

Sociedade Recreativa Colense, Colos, Odemira

Info

2 – Música na Paisagem

Vários Locais, Bragança

Programa

Entrada Livre

2 – Hip Hop Fest

Teatro Municipal de Vila Real, Vila Real

Cartaz

Entrada Livre

2 - The Mandelbrot Shakes

Barracuda Clube de Roque, Porto

23:00h . 8€ com uma cerveja

3 – Infected Rain

RCA Club, Lisboa

Bilhetes

7 - Acoustic Tribal Dance

Spacy Bar & Disco, Caldas da Rainha

7 a 10 – Jazz no Largo

Theatro Gil Vicente, Barcelos

Cartaz Completo

Entrada Livre

7 a 10 - Festival da Juventude – Salfest

Parque Urbano, Alcácer do Sal

Info/Cartaz

8 – Daguida

Casa da Música, Porto

22:00h . Entrada Livre

Info

8 e 9 – Rock N’ Route Fest

Vários Artistas: Baleia Baleia Baleia, Given to Flow, entre outros

Route 66, Freamunde

Info

8 e 9 – Afro Music – Another Banger

B.Leza Associação, Lisboa

8 e 9 – Rock dos Romanos

Largo da Igreja, Condeixa-a-Velha

Info

9 - !! MÖRDÖR FESTA !!

Barracuda Clube de Roque, Porto

Info/Cartaz

9 – Organika

Casa das Virtudes, Faro

22:00h

13 – Woody Allen & The New Orleans Jazz Band

Super Bock Arena, Porto

Info/Bilhetes

E em Lisboa, no Campo Pequeno dia 14

14 - Claustrofonia - Marlene Ribeiro & Inês Malheiro

Promotor: Dedos Biónicos

Domus Municipalis, Bragança

21:30h

15 – Messer Chups + O Bom, O Mau e o Azevedo

Barracuda Clube de Roque, Porto

23:00h

Info/Bilhetes

15 e 16 – Suave Fest

Largo da Misericórdia, Guimarães

Cartaz

Entrada Livre

15 a 17 – Baldaya Vintage Fest

Vários Artistas: Wild Cat Shaker, Messer Chups, The Dixie Boys

Palácio Baldaya, Lisboa

Entrada Livre

16 – Black Panda + Death After Disease

Vortex, Lisboa

20:00h . Apenas para sócios

Formulário de sócio

16 - Cartaxo Sessions

Casa do Campino, Santarém

21:30h . Entrada Livre

Info

16 - All Kingdoms Fall + Oceans of Apathy + Ashes in the Ocean

Paranoid Beer and Records, Freamunde

22:00h . 7€

Info

17 – Ruttenscale + Derrame + Primal Warfare

RCA Club, Lisboa

16:00h . 16€ com 1 bebida

Info

20 – Rage

Convidados: Dark Embrace, Tri State Corner

RCA Club, Lisboa

Info

21 – Dead Pollys + Albert Fish

Village Underground, Lisboa

PORTAS: 22.00h . Entre 10 a 12€

21 a 24 – MUMI

Vários Locais, Valença (Viana do Castelo)

Cartaz

22 – Sétima Legião

Teatro Municipal de Bragança, Bragança

21:00h

Info/Bilhetes

22 – Tsunamiz

Tokyo, Lisboa

22h30 . 10€

22 – Dead Pollys

Sociedade Harmonia Eborense, Évora

Info

22 - Capela Mortuária

Convidados: Holocausto Canibal e Warout

Café-Concerto RUM by Mavy, Braga

22:00h . 2€

Cartaz

22 a 24 – Amplifest

Hard Club, Porto

Esgotado

Cartaz

23 – VII River Stone Fest

Rio de Moinhos, Penafiel

Info/Cartaz

23 – Barbosas + Eskilograma

Casa do Salgueiros, Porto

Info

23 - Vai-te Foder e de Systemik Viølence

Vortex, Lisboa

20:00h . Apenas para sócios

Formulário de sócio

23 - Barlos

Barcelos

Mais info brevemente

Website

26 - Pešpäkøvå + Gonçalo Alves & João Clemente

Salão Brazil, Coimbra

21h30 . 7€

27 – The Slow Show

Promotor: Os Suspeitos, Mr November                                               

Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Porto

21:30h

Info/Bilhetes

30 até 1 outubro  - Viseu Rock Fest

Largo do Orfeão, Viseu

Cartaz

*OBS: Recomendamos verificar estas informações junto dos promotores ou sites oficiais

[djservo]

gigglesnervously... this is so unlike me completely forgot about sending this ask to you. but now i have, so i simply must know how was your march reading? also any other media you've picked up i love your words

IMO BABE u could send our monthly round-up message 1 day before the month's over or 1 week After it's over and I would likely still be horribly unprepared LOL 💟 3 reads in march!

God's Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible by Stephen D. Moore

this was so funny to read in public, flipping through various pictures of Jesus and biblical scenes on the plane and subtly angling the cover to assure my fellow passengers that It's In A Queer Theory Way, Not Evangelical Way... LOL substance-wise, this was a bit all over the place. of course I'm not a biblical studies aficionado, but I've read similarly dense ethnographies/nonfiction to expect a sort of cohesion necessary when sharing extensive research with an audience you must assume doesn't know even half of what you know. it's the basics of essay-writing, even. and while I understand that when the referential material is something as grand as the literal bible (and its numerous interpretations) there are bound to be footnotes and context necessary for #background, the sheer amount of references took me out of it too many times. so tedious to have to flip to the back of the book every paragraph to read another supplementary 5 paragraphs simply to understand the context for 2 lines; it felt like a chore to pick this one up, or like a heavy commitment that made it impossible to read outside of a dedicated afternoon saved for reading alone. still, somehow, I never loathed it enough to give up reading entirely because the topic itself was so—and I hate to use this word, but—niche that I knew it was either sticking with this or endlessly scouring the internet for random sources regarding biblical queer theory that would likely lack the cohesion even more compared to a dedicated research book. I definitely wouldn't recommend this to anyone that doesn't have vested interest in both of those things, but I'll admit I'm already seeking out Moore's other writing (with a long, premature sigh of fatigue)

Le Livre Blanc by Jean Cocteau

years ago I listened to an Eve Babitz audiobook (Eve's Hollywood, I think) where she mentions a Jean Cocteau quote she has pinned on her fridge: "the privileges of beauty are enormous." I'd made a note of it and kept going back to it without ever actually checking Cocteau out (when I looked it up, it never linked it to a specific work of his so I assumed it was just a one-off quote). back in january when I read Against Interpretation and watched some Robert Bresson films in preparation for Sontag's Bresson analysis, I watched Les Dames du bois de Boulogne ('45) which was written by Cocteau. then, when perusing a bookshop the next month, I found this bite-sized read buried on the staff picks' shelf. I knew nothing about it but picked it up thinking it'd be an inconsequential dip into his writing, and LO AND BEHOLD, this is the book with The quote (though worded differently): "beauty holds vast privileges." it felt so special and serendipitous to come across this quote again, from its origin no less! I don't think I can attempt a review of the story itself without bias knowing its historical/societal context, so I'll just emphasize how special it feels to have come across this the way that I did

The Stranger by Albert Camus

I'd think it'd be more infuriating, or at the very least Tedious, to read about someone so unmoved/uninvolved with his own life, but I think the grip it held on me came from the baited-breath expectancy of a dramatic epiphany (which, spoiler, never came). not to bring up Bresson again, but this really did remind me a lot of his films with its cold and almost methodological feel—no purple prose or indulgence, just hollow shells of men going through the motions of life and dealing with the facts of the matter. cyclical, unfeeling, unaffected—you want him to "get better", but you end up questioning Why or what that would even look like. I just know the beanie-wearing menthol-smoking IPA-drinking philosophy bros go crazy with this one

with my head hung in shame, I must also report to you my first DNF of the year: Directed By Desire by June Jordan </3 here's where I think I went wrong:

1. I'm admittedly not big on poetry. I enjoy it when I read it and try to read a casual amount throughout the year, but not enough to delve into a 600+ page collection

2. the fact that this was a 600+ page collection (her collected works)!! I liked what I did read (I logged the books I did get through on goodreads for reference if/when I'm ready to pick back up on her poetry where I left off), but it's the type of commitment that would be more suited for an author I've been a longtime fan of vs. simply dipping my toes into the works of for the first time

3. my own incorrect approach to poetry. I used to think it was as simple as picking up and putting down here and there when I have a free moment, but that does such a disservice of stripping away the context, especially from a figure so revolutionary on various fronts like Jordan. like it's one thing to just read through a poem, then the next, then the next, but a different thing to read a poem and sit with it and absorb and analyze it. or IDK maybe I'm just too nonfiction-minded and unnecessarily making things harder for myself, but I feel almost as if a True reading of a poetry (for me) from now on would require so much more than just reading the poetry itself ykwim.. ok my brain is broken bye LMAO

I've already talked so much but since you asked about other media I'll quickly list off my top watches:

tv: Survivor (s7 baby!!) + La Casa De Las Flores (a lush and campy telenovela that feels like it's set at pee wee's playhouse—I can't get enough)

films: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie ('72) dir. Luis Buñuel; The Lickerish Quartet ('70) dir. Radley Metzger; Pulse (2001) dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa; early Juzo Itami films, particularly Tampopo ('85) which instantly cemented itself into my letterboxd top 4 (a change I usually reserve for the end of the year)

[satinea]

Larmes aux fleurs suspendues,

Larmes de sources perdues

Aux mousses des rochers creux ;

Larmes d’automne épandues,

Larmes de cors entendues

Dans les grands bois douloureux ;

Larmes des cloches latines,

Carmélites, Feuillantines…

Voix des beffrois en ferveur ;

Larmes, chansons argentines

Dans les vasques florentines

Au fond du jardin rêveur ;

Larmes des nuits étoilées,

Larmes de flûtes voilées

Au bleu du pare endormi ;

Larmes aux longs cils perlées,

Larmes d’amante coulées

Jusqu’à l’âme de l’ami ;

Gouttes d’extase, éplorement délicieux,

Tombez des nuits ! Tombez des fleurs ! Tombez des yeux !

Et toi, mon coeur, sois le doux fleuve harmonieux,

Qui, riche du trésor tari des urnes vides,

Roule un grand rêve triste aux mers des soirs languides.

Albert SAMAIN

[miguelmarias]

TOP 2022

(31/12/2022)

Great recent movies (made since 2018) seen for the first time in 2022:

 Les Passagers de la nuit(Mikhaël Hers, 2021/2)

 Rachel Hendrix(Victor Nunez, 2022)

 Memoria(Memory;Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)

 O Trio em Mi Bemol(The Kegelstatt Trio;Rita Azevedo Gomes;a.Éric Rohmer)

 Ouistreham(Emmanuel Carrère, 2021)

 The Ride(Ride;Alex Ranarivelo, 2018/9)

 Pan de limón con semillas de amapola(Benito Zambrano, 2021)

 Twist à Bamako(Mali Twist;Robert Guédiguian, 2021/2)

 Mulher Oceano(Djin Sganzerla, 2020)

 Greta(Neil Jordan, 2018)

 Albatros(Xavier Beauvois, 2021)

 À vendredi, Robinson(Mitra Farahani, 2022)

 El Rey de todo el Mundo(Carlos Saura, 2021)

Great older movies (made before 2018) seen for the first time in 2022:

Saikai(Kimura Keigo, 1953)

Yuwaku(Temptation;Yoshimura Kōzaburō, 1948)

The Very Thought of You(Delmer Daves, 1944)

Dunia(Jocelyn Saab, 2005)

Strangers in Good Company/The Company of Strangers(Cynthia Scott, 1990)

Lawn Dogs(John Duigan, 1997)

What happened was...(Tom Noonan, 1993/4)

Tigerstreifenbaby wartet auf Tarzan(Rudolf Thome, 1997/8)

Rot und Blau(Rudolf Thome, 2002/3)

Yawaraka na hou(A Tender Place;Nagasaki Shunichi, 2001)

Tin ngai hoy gok(Lost and Found;Lee Chi-ngai, 1996)

The Journey of August King(John Duigan, 1995)

Off the Map(Campbell Scott, 2003)

Bed of Roses(Michael Goldenberg, 1995/6)

The Cake Eaters(Mary Stuart Masterson, 2007)

Trigger(Bruce McDonald, 2010)

Lian’ai yu yiwu(Love and Duty;Bu Wancang=Richard Poh, 1931)

Sparrows Dance (Noah Buschel, 2013)

Aoi sanmyaku+Zoku aoi sanmyaku(The Green Mountains 1+2/Blue Mountains 1+2;Imai Tadashi, 1949)

Du hast gesagt, dass du mich liebst(You Told Me You Loved Me;Rudolf Thome, 2005/6)

Yūwakusha(The Enchantment;Nagasaki Shunichi, 1989)

Nishi no majo ga shinda(The Witch of the West is Dead;Nagasaki Shunichi, 2008)

Hachi-kō Monogatari(Kōyama Seijirō, 1987)

Spoken Word(Victor Nunez, 2009)

The Missing Person (Noah Buschel, 2008/9)

The Devil Makes Three(Andrew Marton, 1952)

Christmas in Connecticut(Peter Godfrey, 1945)

Berlin Chamissoplatz(Rudolf Thome, 1980)

Rauchzeichen(Rudolf Thome,2005/6)

Among the Living(Stuart Heisler, 1941)

Voice in the Mirror(Harry Keller, 1958)

Glass Chin(Noah Buschel, 2013/4)

The Mule/Border Run/La frontera del crimen(Gabriela Tagliavini, 2012)

BigEden(Thomas Bezucha, 2000)

Endoretsu warutsu(Endless Waltz;Wakamatsu Kōji, 1995)

Keith Richards:Under the Influence(Morgan Neville, 2015)

Kōfuku no genkai(The Limit of Happiness;Kimura Keigo, 1948)

Friends(Elaine Proctor, 1993)

The Stone Boy(Christopher Cain, 1983/4)

Frau fährt, Mann schläft(Rudolf Thome, 2003/4)

Pêcheur d’Islande(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1959)

Awdat mowatin(Return of a Citizen;Mohamed Khan, 1986)

Les Portes tournantes(The Revolving Doors;Francis Mankiewicz, 1988)

Remarkable recent movies:

Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt?(What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?;Aleksandr Koberidze, 2021)

Degas et moi(of 3e Scène)(Arnaud Des Pallières, 2019)

Ergej irekhgüi namar/Harvest Moon (Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam, 2021/2)

Viagem ao Sol(Journey to the Sun;Ansgar Schaefer & Susana de Souza Dias, 2021)

Illusions Perdues(Xavier Giannoli, 2021)

Petite Solange(Axelle Ropert, 2021)

Pacifiction/Tourment sur les îles(Albert Serra, 2022)

Where The Crawdads Sing(Olivia Newman, 2022)

The Batman(Matt Reeves, 2022)

Jaula(Ignacio Tatay, 2018)

Prapti(Receipt;Anuraag Pati, 2021)

Limbo(Soi Cheang, 2021)

Avec amour et acharnement(Both Sides of the Blade/Fire;Claire Denis, 2021/2)

Armageddon Time(James Gray, 2022)

Beurokeo(Broker;Kore-Eda Hirokazu, 2021/2)

America(Ofir Raul Graizer, 2021/2)

Faridaning ikki ming qo’shig’i(2000 Songs of Farida;Yalkin Tuychiev, 2020)

El sustituto(The Replacement;Óscar Aira, 2020/1)

Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar(On Either Side of the Pond;Parth Saurabh, 2022)

The Gigantes(Beatriz Sanchis, 2021)

Farha(Darin J. Sallam, 2021)

In My Own Time:A Portrait of Karen Dalton(Rich Peete & Robert Yapkowitz, 2020)

Barbarian(Zach Cregger, 2022)

Between Earth and Sky(The Lie;Veena Sud, 2018//20)

Watcher(Chloe Okuno, 2021/2)

A Christmas Mystery(Alex Ranarivelo, 2022)

A Hollywood Christmas(Alex Ranarivelo, 2022)

Les Intranquilles(Joachim Lafosse, 2021)

Unrueh(Unrest;Cyril Schäublin, 2022)

Malintzin 17(Eugenio & Mara Polgovsky, 2016//21/2)

Coda(Siân Heder, 2020/1)

Work in progress, Agosto 2022(José Luis Guerin, 2022)

A pesar de todo(Despite Everything;Gabriela Tagliavini, 2019)

They’ll Love Me When I ‘m Dead(Morgan Neville, 2018)

Pretend It’s A City(Martin Scorsese, 2020)

The Glorias(Julie Taymor, 2020)

Land(Robin Wright, 2021)

Chavalas(Carol Rodríguez Colás, 2020/1)

Alam(Firas Khoury, 2022)

Remarkable older movies:

Watashi no Niisan(My Older Brother;Shimazu Yasujirô, 1934)

Liu mang yi sheng(Doctor Mack;Lee Chi-ngai, 1995)

Hunt the Man Down(George Archainbaud, 1950)

Happy Here and Now(Michael Almereyda, 2002)

Hold That Co-Ed(Hold That Girl;George Marshall, 1938)

Transcendence(Wally Pfister, 2014)

Mr. Fix-It(Allan Dwan, 1918)

Down Home (Irvin V. Willat, 1920)

The Tall Stranger(Thomas Carr, 1957)

Pagdating Sa Dulo(At the Top;Ishmael Bernal, 1971)

Maowid ala ashaa(A Dinner Date;Mohamed Khan, 1981)

Zawgat Ragoul Mohem(The Wife of an Important Person;Mohamed Khan, 1987)

The Eclipse(Conor McPherson, 2009)

El Rebozo de Soledad(Roberto Gavaldón, 1952)

Desert Hearts(Donna Deitch, 1985)

Manhandled(Lewis R. Foster, 1949)

Accused of Murder(Joseph Kane, 1956)

The Marauders(Gerald Mayer, 1955)

Ramuru/Aibu(L’Amour/Caress/Love;Goshō Heinosukē, 1933)

Amerasia(Wolf-Eckart Bühler, 1985)

Careless Love(John Duigan, 2012)

Sieben Frauen(Formen der Liebe III)(Rudolf Thome, 1989)

Flirting(John Duigan, 1990/1)

One Night Stand(John Duigan, 1984)

Mouth to Mouth(John Duigan, 1978)

Kissed(Lynne Stopkewich, 1996)

Strike!/All I Wanna Do!(Sarah Kernochan, 1998)

In Old Kentucky(George Marshall, 1935)

Hei jun ma(A Mongolian Tale;Xie Fei, 1995)

Kojima no haru(Spring on Lepers’ Island;Toyoda Shirō, 1940)

Jack Higgins’ ‘A Prayer for the Dying’/A Prayer for the Dying(Mike Hodges, 1987)

Whispering City(Fedor Ozep, 1947)

Maytime in Mayfair(Herbert Wilcox, 1949)

Derby Day(Herbert Wilcox, 1952)

Hell’s Half Acre(John H. Auer, 1954)

Without Honor(Irving Pichel, 1949)

Big Night(Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott, 1996)

In Old Arizona(Raoul Walsh & Irving Cummings, 1929)

Storm Over Lisbon(George Sherman, 1944)

Chant d’hiver(Otar Iosseliani, 2015)

Die rote Zimmer (Rudolf Thome, 2010)

Das Geheimnis(Rudolf Thome, 1994/5)

Der Philosoph(Rudolf Thome, 1988/9)

Winter of our Dreams(John Duigan, 1981)

Just Married(Rudolf Thome, 1997/8)

Ins Blaue(Into the Blue;Rudolf Thome, 2011/2)

The Sky Pilot(King Vidor, 1921)

Wine of Youth(King Vidor, 1924)

The Family Stone(Thomas Bezucha, 2005)

Les Deaux Souvenirs(Happy Memories;Francis Mankiewicz, 1981)

Istoriia Grazhdanskoí Voíny(Dziga Vertov & Nikolai Izvolov, 1922)

Jes’ Call Me Jim(Clarence G. Badger, 1920)

Jubilo(Clarence G. Badger, 1919)

Marguerite Duras:Worn Out with Desire to Write(David Wiles & Alan Benson, 1985)

Bestsennaia golova(V boevom kinsbarnike 10)(A Priceless Head;Boris Barnet, 1942)

Taifuken no onna(Ōba Hideo, 1948)

The Hasty Heart(Vincent Sherman, 1949)

A Kiss in the Dark(Delmer Daves, 1948/9)

Anesthesia(Tim Blake Nelson, 2014/5)

The Half-Breed(Stuart Gilmore;uc.Edward Ludwig, 1952)

The Two Fister(William Wyler, 1927)

Croupier(Mike Hodges, 1997/8)

Paranoid(John Duigan, 1999/2000)

The Leading Man(John Duigan, 1996)

Aucun regret(Emmanuel Mouret, 2015)

Tout le monde a raison(Emmanuel Mouret, 2017)

Invisible Agent(Edwin L. Marin, 1942)

Full Body Massage(Nicolas Roeg, 1995)

Saya no iru tousizu(Saya:Perspective in Love;Kimata Akiyoshi=Izumi Seiji, 1986)

Race Street(Edwin L. Marin, 1948)

The Wife(Tom Noonan, 1994/5)

Molly(John Duigan, 1998/9)

The Phenom (Noah Buschel, 2015/6)

Live A Little, Love A Little(Norman Taurog, 1968)

Café Com Canela(Coffee with Cinnamon;Ary Rosa & Glenda Nicácio, 2017)

And Now Tomorrow(Irving Pichel, 1944)

On An Island With You(Richard Thorpe, 1948)

One More Tomorrow(Peter Godfrey, 1946)

Il tradimento(Passato che uccide)(Riccardo Freda, 1951)

The Magnificent Dope(Walter Lang, 1942)

Hands Up!(Clarence G. Badger, 1926)

Venus im Netz/Venus.de-Die bewegte Frau(Venus Talking;Rudolf Thome, 2000/1)

Les Bons Débarras(Good Riddance;Francis Mankiewicz, 1980)

Beverly of Graustark(Sidney Franklin, 1926)

Millennium(Michael Anderson, 1989)

Gibraltar(Fedor Ozep, 1938/9)

Great movies watched again:

JLG/JLG(Autoportrait de décembre)(Jean-Luc Godard, 1994)

Yuki fujin ezu(Mizoguchi Kenji, 1950)

The Ten Commandments(Cecil B. DeMille, 1956)

They Were Expendable(John Ford;coll.Robert Montgomery, 1945)

The Civil War(from How The West Was Won;John Ford, 1962)

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes(Billy Wilder, 1970)

The Bitter Tea of General Yen(Frank Capra, 1932)

Return of the Texan(Delmer Daves, 1952)

You Can’t Take It With You(Frank Capra, 1938)

Kiss Me Deadly(Robert Aldrich, 1955)

Desert Fury(Lewis Allen, 1947)

Japanese War Bride(King Vidor, 1951/2)

Storm Warning(Stuart Heisler, 1950/1)

The Circle(Frank Borzage, 1925)

There’s Always Tomorrow(Douglas Sirk, 1955/6)

A Romance of the Redwoods(Cecil B. DeMille, 1917)

Shockproof(Douglas Sirk, 1949)

Sergeant Rutledge(John Ford, 1960)

Bad Girl(Frank Borzage, 1931)

Interlude(Douglas Sirk, 1957)

The First Legion(Douglas Sirk, 1950/1)

Captain China(Lewis R. Foster, 1950)

Passage West(Lewis R. Foster, 1951)

The Invisible Man(James Whale, 1933)

Slávnyí malyí/Novgorodtsy(Boris Barnet, 1943)

Alyonka(Boris Barnet, 1961)

Hurry Sundown(Otto Preminger, 1966)

Gideon’s Day(Gideon of Scotland Yard;John Ford, 1958)

Anjô-ke no butôkai (Yoshimura Kôzaburô, 1947)

The World Moves On(John Ford, 1934)

Black Tuesday(Hugo Fregonese, 1954)

The Raid(Hugo Fregonese, 1954)

One Way Street(Hugo Fregonese, 1950)

Seven Thunders(Hugo Fregonese, 1957)

La Femme d’à côté(François Truffaut, 1981)

Double Messieurs(Jean-François Stévenin, 1986)

Fighter Squadron(Raoul Walsh, 1948)

State of the Union(Frank Capra, 1947/8)

The Lady Eve(Preston Sturges, 1940/1)L

Shchiedroe leto(Boris Barnet, 1950)

The Year My Voice Broke(John Duigan, 1987)

Liedolom(Boris Barnet, 1931)

All I Desire(Douglas Sirk, 1953)

Illegal(Lewis Allen, 1955)

L’Homme qui aimait les femmes(François Truffaut, 1977)

Very good movies watched again:

Crack-Up(Irving Reis, 1946)

Twilight For The Gods(Joseph Pevney, 1958)

Wide Sargasso Sea(John Duigan, 1992/3)

Ivanhoe(Richard Thorpe, 1951/2)

Polustanok(Boris Barnet, 1963)

Odnazhdy nochyu(Dark is the Night;Boris Barnet, 1944/5)

Mystery Submarine(Douglas Sirk, 1950)

Battle Hymn(Douglas Sirk, 1956/7)

Tomorrow Is Forever(Irving Pichel, 1945/6)

The Gypsy Moths(John Frankenheimer, 1969)

Amok(Fedor Ozep, 1934)

I’ll Be Seeing You(William Dieterle, 1944)

The Lady(Frank Borzage, 1925)

Torrents of Spring(Jerzy Skolimowski, 1989)

Starií naezdnik(The Old Jockey;Boris Barnet, 1940)

The Honeymoon Machine(Richard Thorpe, 1961)

The Flame(John H. Auer, 1947)

The Jack Knife Man(King Vidor, 1920)

Cheyenne (Raoul Walsh, 1947)

Dakota(Joseph Kane, 1945)

Singapore(John Brahm, 1947)

The Brasher Doubloon(John Brahm, 1947)

Junior Bonner(Sam Peckinpah, 1972)

Family Plot(Alfred Hitchcock, 1976)

La Femme et le Pantin(Jacques de Baroncelli, 1928/9)

My Reputation(Curtis Bernhardt, 1946)

The Reluctant Debutante(Vincente Minnelli, 1958)

Annushka(Boris Barnet, 1959)

Stranítsy zhizni(Boris Barnet & Aleksandr Macheret, 1946//8)

The Lady Pays Off(Douglas Sirk, 1951)

Schluss-akkord(Detlef Sierck=Douglas Sirk, 1936)

Whirlpool(Lewis Allen, 1959)

City That Never Sleeps(John H. Auer, 1953)

April! April!(Detlef Sierck, 1935)

Byzantium(Neil Jordan, 2012)

Too Many Husbands(Wesley Ruggles, 1940)

All The Brothers Were Valiant(Richard Thorpe, 1953)

Crosswinds(Lewis R. Foster, 1951)

Casbah(John Berry, 1948)

The Eagle and the Hawk(Lewis R. Foster, 1950)

Body of Lies(Ridley Scott, 2008)

La larga noche de los bastones blancos(Javier Elorrieta, 1979)

Wives Under Suspicion(James Whale, 1938)

Home Before Dark(Mervyn LeRoy, 1958)

Podvig razvedchika(Boris Barnet, 1947)

The Two Mrs. Carrolls(Peter Godfrey, 1947)

Barricade(Peter Godfrey, 1949/50)

Escape Me Never(Peter Godfrey, 1947)

The House of the Seven Hawks(Richard Thorpe, 1959)

Sugarfoot(Edwin L. Marin, 1950)

Room For One More(Norman Taurog, 1951/2)

El Paso(Lewis R. Foster, 1949)

Jamaica Run(Lewis R. Foster, 1953)

Vértigo(Antonio Momplet, 1946)

The Manchurian Candidate(John Frankenheimer, 1962)