Nicolas Leblanc
@ngrl.bsky.social
"Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings."
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To be Orpheus and Eurydice in a film by Alain Resnais—
December 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
To be Orpheus and Eurydice in a film by Alain Resnais—
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1080 transfer of Akerman’s Portrait d'une jeune fille… has leaked.
December 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
1080 transfer of Akerman’s Portrait d'une jeune fille… has leaked.
FAT CITY, one supposes, since no one appears to have said that.
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
FAT CITY, one supposes, since no one appears to have said that.
Marveling at the career of Luc Ferry. From calling Foucault and Derrida antihumanists to calling for the police to fire live rounds in crowds. Minister, too, for two years, so on that sweet state dole. Cuz no bad deeds goes unrewarded.
New acquisitions of December or, Do you know how hard it is to get French translations of Kant untouched by the two reactionary nincompoops who dumped La Pensée 68 on an unsuspecting public?
December 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Marveling at the career of Luc Ferry. From calling Foucault and Derrida antihumanists to calling for the police to fire live rounds in crowds. Minister, too, for two years, so on that sweet state dole. Cuz no bad deeds goes unrewarded.
New acquisitions of December or, Do you know how hard it is to get French translations of Kant untouched by the two reactionary nincompoops who dumped La Pensée 68 on an unsuspecting public?
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
New acquisitions of December or, Do you know how hard it is to get French translations of Kant untouched by the two reactionary nincompoops who dumped La Pensée 68 on an unsuspecting public?
Thomas l'obscur
Zeno's Conscience
Pierre or the Ambiguities
Zeno's Conscience
Pierre or the Ambiguities
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Thomas l'obscur
Zeno's Conscience
Pierre or the Ambiguities
Zeno's Conscience
Pierre or the Ambiguities
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"If a sense of ill ease grew in them as they chewed it was because that meat must have had for them the taste of stale shadow and oft-repeated errors. Since the external was pure appearance, they knew deep down that they were chewing on nothing."
(N.B.: Saer is writing about cannibals, here.)
(N.B.: Saer is writing about cannibals, here.)
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
"If a sense of ill ease grew in them as they chewed it was because that meat must have had for them the taste of stale shadow and oft-repeated errors. Since the external was pure appearance, they knew deep down that they were chewing on nothing."
(N.B.: Saer is writing about cannibals, here.)
(N.B.: Saer is writing about cannibals, here.)
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"The apartment was paneled entirely in heavy rich walnut. I have seen the Pasha's royal chambers in Istanbul and the Tsar's in St. Petersburg and never have I seen anything as sumptuous as the wood in Roy Scheider's apartment."
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
"The apartment was paneled entirely in heavy rich walnut. I have seen the Pasha's royal chambers in Istanbul and the Tsar's in St. Petersburg and never have I seen anything as sumptuous as the wood in Roy Scheider's apartment."
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“Our inner, familial, linguistic lives are increasingly homogenous, civilized, collective; heterogeneity is not man’s destiny.”
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“Our inner, familial, linguistic lives are increasingly homogenous, civilized, collective; heterogeneity is not man’s destiny.”
Book challenge: post a quote.
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Book challenge: post a quote.
Stumbling on this as I am finishing The Making of Americans.
Between this and her silly opinions on film, I remained unconvinced by la Sontag.
Between this and her silly opinions on film, I remained unconvinced by la Sontag.
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Stumbling on this as I am finishing The Making of Americans.
Between this and her silly opinions on film, I remained unconvinced by la Sontag.
Between this and her silly opinions on film, I remained unconvinced by la Sontag.
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"We all know about television, right? A new, exciting medium, 'still in its infancy.' With dung all over its fingers, which it makes you smell."
Gilbert Sorrentino, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
Gilbert Sorrentino, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
November 13, 2024 at 2:30 AM
"We all know about television, right? A new, exciting medium, 'still in its infancy.' With dung all over its fingers, which it makes you smell."
Gilbert Sorrentino, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
Gilbert Sorrentino, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
If you see this, and you are French, you have no idea what a positive male role model would be, so you take your best stab at it.
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If you see this, and you are French, you have no idea what a positive male role model would be, so you take your best stab at it.
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"One climbs all stairs—even clandestine ones—faster than the snail staircase of merit." My translation of The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix by Jean Paul is available now through Empyrean Editions: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"One climbs all stairs—even clandestine ones—faster than the snail staircase of merit." My translation of The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix by Jean Paul is available now through Empyrean Editions: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Anyone: Did you see the list from—
Me:
Me:
December 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Anyone: Did you see the list from—
Me:
Me:
"Wonderboy of Hollywood cinema, S.S. also shows, at the same time, superb symptoms of Freudian regression, with dollars, caca, the whole shebang."
[E.T.] Spielberg has earned the tears that some people in the audience — and not just children — shed. The tears are tokens of gratitude for the spell the picture has put on the audience. Genuinely entrancing movies are almost as rare as extraterrestrial visitors. (1982)
December 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Wonderboy of Hollywood cinema, S.S. also shows, at the same time, superb symptoms of Freudian regression, with dollars, caca, the whole shebang."
Great, poetry is dangerous again.
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Great, poetry is dangerous again.
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bastille musique presents its thirty-seventh release »Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir« featuring world premiere recordings by #AnssiKarttunen (violoncello) and @nicolashodges.bsky.social (piano). Get it from @bandcamp.com or your local record store: bastillemusique.bandcamp.com/album/betsy-...
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
bastille musique presents its thirty-seventh release »Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir« featuring world premiere recordings by #AnssiKarttunen (violoncello) and @nicolashodges.bsky.social (piano). Get it from @bandcamp.com or your local record store: bastillemusique.bandcamp.com/album/betsy-...
Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, New York Philharmonic — A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Anthony Braxton — Composition 23 B
ENO — Needles in the Camel's Eye
David Bowie — Station to Station
George Crumb, Aeolian Chamber Players — Voice of the Whale
Anthony Braxton — Composition 23 B
ENO — Needles in the Camel's Eye
David Bowie — Station to Station
George Crumb, Aeolian Chamber Players — Voice of the Whale
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, New York Philharmonic — A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Anthony Braxton — Composition 23 B
ENO — Needles in the Camel's Eye
David Bowie — Station to Station
George Crumb, Aeolian Chamber Players — Voice of the Whale
Anthony Braxton — Composition 23 B
ENO — Needles in the Camel's Eye
David Bowie — Station to Station
George Crumb, Aeolian Chamber Players — Voice of the Whale
Sometimes, a filmmaker finds the tides shifting in critical reputation and it makes me wonder what people were watching in the first place.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Sometimes, a filmmaker finds the tides shifting in critical reputation and it makes me wonder what people were watching in the first place.
Whenever I see Farage, I remember that episode of Time Trumpet: youtu.be/L3CFe3PGZV8
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Whenever I see Farage, I remember that episode of Time Trumpet: youtu.be/L3CFe3PGZV8
Brett Ratner IS Yuli Raizman.
Say what you will about the state controlled film industries of the Soviet Union, but at least they made *good* movies.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Brett Ratner IS Yuli Raizman.
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...