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Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social · 14h

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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 17

Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits "Superman" and "Superman II", has died aged 87, his family said on Sunday.

Actor Terence Stamp, star of Superman films, dies aged 87

Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits "Superman" and "Superman II", has died aged 87, his family said on Sunday.

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Chess24 @chess24com.bsky.social · Jun 26

The fifth event in the #FreestyleChess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors.
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Freestyle Chess Calls Off India Event, Buettner Steps Down As CEO

The fifth event in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · Jun 9

Melvyn Bragg & guests discuss philosopher Merleau-Ponty who was working within phenomenology. He rejected Descartes’ division between body & mind, arguing that the way we perceive the world around us cannot be separated from our experience of inhabiting a physical body www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought

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Sabzian @sabzian.bsky.social · Jun 5

Is Cinema Mortal?

“The fact that one can reasonably ask oneself such a question today, and that it requires some thinking through to come to an optimistic answer, should be enough to justify astonishment and musing.” – André Bazin

Is Cinema Mortal?, André Bazin, 1953

The fact that one can reasonably ask oneself such a question today, and that it requires some thinking through to come to an optimistic answer, should be enough to justify astonishment and musing.

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En Attendant Godard @eagodard.bsky.social · Jun 4

Making of du dernier film achevé de JLG, "Scénario".

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L'histoire de "Scénario" - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE

Dernier rendez-vous avec Jean-Luc Godard. Ce documentaire montre le cinéaste dans la préparation de "Scénario", son film testamentaire inachevé, avant de se clore sur une scène bouleversante : l’ultim...

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Steffen Siegel @steffensiegel.bsky.social · Jun 2

What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate

We are interested in ideas about photography’s future roles in social, artistic, scientific, and everyday realms.

Applications are due on July 31st, 2025.

For the full call, please have a look here:
cloud.folkwang-uni.de/s/2zMFsW2WoZ...

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Chess24 @chess24com.bsky.social · May 21

"I'll take it, of course!" said Magnus Carlsen after Hikaru Nakamura resigned in a winning position, handing over the match!
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2025 Chess.com Classic: Carlsen Advances After Nakamura Resigns In Winning Position

GM Magnus Carlsen earned his spot in the 2025 Chess.com Classic Grand Final after knocking GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Hikaru Nakamura out of the Winners Bracket.

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Chess.com @chess.com · May 21

HIKARU RESIGNS IN A WINNING POSITION!? 🫨

Both players crack up checking the game review after the match! #ChessChamps

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Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social · May 21

And then everything crashed. Tech difficulties are killing the broadcast today!

Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social · May 17

Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague looks… accurate? Hopefully it’s not just a game of recognition. m.youtube.com/watch?v=795B...

NOUVELLE VAGUE, a film by Richard Linklater

YouTube video by ARP Sélection

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Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social · May 10

@sheilakathleen.bsky.social Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1m0...

Mirror Scene from "Stolen Kisses" (1968)

Francois Truffaut

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Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social · May 9

I remember be assigned The Imperative in grad school. A fascinating, frustrating, inspirational writer. He will be missed.

Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · May 9

Alphonso Lingis, professor emeritus of philosophy at Penn State, has died.

Alphonso Lingis (1933-2025) - Daily Nous

Alphonso Lingis, professor emeritus of philosophy at Penn State University, has died. Professor Lingis specialized in phenomenology, existentialism, modern philosophy, and continental philosophy. He w...

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Eva Truffaut @evatruffaut.bsky.social · May 3

ayééé!
François Truffaut
Correspondance avec des cinéastes. 1954-1984
chez Gallimard
paraitra le 8 mai
shout out @lauratruffaut.bsky.social pour sa vigilance aiguisée .
Et merci Bernard Bastide & Patricia Guedot

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Sabzian @sabzian.bsky.social · Apr 24

“What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two decades of his life.” - @feuilladist.bsky.social on Godard's posthumous films

The Last Things Before the Last, Jonathan Mackris, 2025

What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two deca...

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Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social · Apr 23

On Godard’s final works sabzian.be/text/the-las...

The Last Things Before the Last, Jonathan Mackris, 2025

What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two deca...

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · Apr 22

Books! Godard, Satyajit Ray, Anita Loos, James Gandolfini, Sigrid Nunez, Zheng Zhi, Jonathan Rosenbaum … www.criterion.com/current/post...

A scrappy cover for Michael Witt’s JEAN-LUC GODARD’S UNMADE AND ABANDONED PROJECTS.

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Chess24 @chess24com.bsky.social · Apr 6

Jan Henric Buettner: "We are obviously incredibly disappointed to hear about Hans Niemann's withdrawal from this event"

Niemann Withdraws Last Minute From Freestyle Chess In Paris

Less than 48 hours before The Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam kicks off in the French capital, GM Hans Niemann has withdrawn from the tournament for "personal reasons".

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Sabzian @sabzian.bsky.social · Mar 31

📚 Just published: the Spring edition of our seasonal roundup of recently released and upcoming film publications.

New Book Releases / Spring 2025

Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.

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Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social · Mar 20

Quite a find www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Only known script of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless to be auctioned online

About 70 pages of director’s handwritten notes for the New Wave classic were found after more than 60 years

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Glen W Norton @glenwnorton.bsky.social · Feb 17

Hmm… which one is cake? It’s a head-scratcher.

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · Jan 27

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · Jan 27

Lived Moments by Glen Norton is a new philosophical understanding of modernist cinema’s ability to express indeterminate and contingent moments of daily life.

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Feb 1

Jean-Luc Godard Shoots Marianne Faithfull (RIP) Singing “As Tears Go By” in 1966

Note: Yesterday, Marianne Faithfull passed away at age 78. In her memory, we're bringing back a favorite from deep in our archive. It originally appeared on our site in June 2012.

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · Jan 13

Lived Moments by Glen Norton is a new philosophical understanding of modernist cinema’s ability to express indeterminate and contingent moments of daily life.

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