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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 11h

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
born on this day, 1923

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#ItaloCalvino

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 17h

Udo Kier in the Lars von Trier film "The Kingdom", "Breaking the Waves", "Melancholia" and "Nymphomaniac" - BOTD

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 22h

I often think about this quote in which he talks about Tarkovsky and says that people don't die from accidents or ilnesesses but because they can't go on living

"He's dead, like most of them. That is, most of them are dead
or have stopped making films. Or else, somewhere along the line,
they've irretrievably lost something, some individual sort of imagi-
nation, intelligence or way of narrating a story. Tarkovsky was
certainly one of those who hadn't lost this. Unfortunately, he died.
Probably because he couldn't live any more. That's usually why
people die. One can say it's cancer or a heart attack or that the
person falls under a car, but really people usually die because they
can't go on living."

Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 22h

This was known and I feel that even If he'd lived he wouldn't have directd those scripts. He seemed pretty much done with the moviemaking life and apperead discouraged by the state of the industry and the World in his last documentaris and interviews

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 1d

Juliette Binoche revealed Krzysztof Kieślowski had planned to start another film trilogy about paradise, purgatory, and hell before his untimely death in 1996. Read more from her Busan Film Festival press conference:

Juliette Binoche Reflects on Working with Krzysztof Kieślowski at Busan International Film Festival

In 2008, Juliette Binoche paired with dancer Akram Khan for in-i, an experimental dance work about a couple's dissolving relationship. They performed the piece 120 times in theaters around the world. ...

thefilmstage.com

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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 3d

“Everywhere across this surface, stories are being told. It teems with stories, like a wimmelbild [teeming picture]. […] Schattenfroh is a wimmelbuch, a book teeming with images.”

This tradition is alive, both in painting and writing.

theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/i...

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matt lynch @colonelmortimer.bsky.social · 4d

Remember how when Tarkovsk was shooting the house burning down at the end of THE SACRIFICE but the camera jammed and well, shit, they just had to rebuild the house and do it again? I don't know why I'm thinking about that right now.

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 4d

It owes a great debt to the early Bond movies and Jack Lord's got a even greater plot armor than Bond. Cold War paranoia's, 60s retrofuturist aesthetics, wacky mind control devices, a lone female character who's only there to state that hippies are cool but cops can be cool too. It rules lol

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 6d

'Mon oncle', Jacques Tati

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 6d

That's lovely. Shouts out Beckett and his famous reaction to receiving nobel "this is a catastrophe". But he's clearly elated

Of course tho,his main source of inspiration is "the bitterness. I'm very sad if I think of the state of the World now. This is my deepest inspiration, the human being now"

First reactions | László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 | Telephone interview

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 6d

It's a great day to remember how important a translator like @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social is for those of us who can only read in English.
Without her superb translations, we would have missed so much of the great work of László Krasznahorkai.

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 6d

Fuck yeah, Laszlo actually did it! Read Satantango everybody, it's a masterpiece and even better than the film!!

Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 7d

I don't read enough to have a well informed prospective on who should or shouldn't win, but - as i've been doing for the last couple of years - for the Nobel I'll be pulling for these two eastern european masters of melancholy and despair

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 7d

I don't read enough to have a well informed prospective on who should or shouldn't win, but - as i've been doing for the last couple of years - for the Nobel I'll be pulling for these two eastern european masters of melancholy and despair

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 7d

You should watch Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man)

Daily Squibs @dailysquibs.bsky.social · 7d

CEMETERY MAN (Soavi, 1994)

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 9d

I mean, really, I could just keep quoting the novel all day. Here's Slothrop, after visiting the grave of Dr. Jamf, one of the novel's great villians, looking over the Alps.

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william andrades @willandrades.bsky.social · 8d

ansiosissimo.

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 8d

Usually Pynchon's novels send me off on weird tangents about some strange obscure subjects, but so far Vineland is making me want to watch the original Hawaii Five-O more than anything else lol

Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 10d

The (anti) climax (eheh) shot and scored like a spaghetti western stand off was pretty genius too.
Great way to start my spooky season, this kicked ass. Some unexpected good feminist politics too for the time

Also, Dagmar Lassander's beauty is timeless

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 10d

The Laughing Woman (1969): owning a collection of paintings depicting diseases like leprosy of cholera seen under the microscope is a neat way to characterize your villain lol

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 10d

John Carpenter made the movies he made because he was a fan of Howard Hawks, westerns, science fiction, gothic horror, noir...while all the people who try to imitate him are just fans of John Carpenter movies.

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Kazuyoshi Kawasaki @kawasaki1972.bsky.social · 12d

Juliette Binoche | Trois Couleurs : Bleu | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1993.

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 12d

You got such a kick ass taste. One of my favorite people to follow here and what this place needs more of

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 12d

He was incredible in the best Homicide episode "Three Men and Adena"

J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 12d

Moses Gunn in "Shaft" - BOTD

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Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 13d

First look at Bob Ferguson in One Battle After Another sequel

Dulian @sortilegesmind.bsky.social · 13d

So many great quotable lines about cinema, about life really, in just 20 minutes. Lumet was above all a great craftsman but also seemed to have a deep understanding of actors and people

Sidney Lumet interview on "Making Movies" (1995)

YouTube video by Manufacturing Intellect

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danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 14d

Afternoons of Solitude (2024; Albert Serra)

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