Nicolas Leblanc
@ngrl.bsky.social
"Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings."
Another shade of depressive comedy...
December 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Another shade of depressive comedy...
So you're going into THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY real sad because of Robert Burks' tragic demise?
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
So you're going into THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY real sad because of Robert Burks' tragic demise?
We could all use one.
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
We could all use one.
Yes! And in SAME OLD SONG, where l'enfer c'est les autres.
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Yes! And in SAME OLD SONG, where l'enfer c'est les autres.
Next up: "She was a winner/and became the doggie's dinner."
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Next up: "She was a winner/and became the doggie's dinner."
No, I think you're onto something, especially with respects to the USA. Looking at Charles Ives who had formal training and yet broke free from the mold, with some naïveté, but maybe that was that very naïveté that was needed.
December 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
No, I think you're onto something, especially with respects to the USA. Looking at Charles Ives who had formal training and yet broke free from the mold, with some naïveté, but maybe that was that very naïveté that was needed.
Besides the James connection, yes.
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Besides the James connection, yes.
I took my sweet time. Months. By the end the book is almost only stasis, too. But 100 years after publication it still has that weirdness around the eyes, in the stare, no-one has touched it. I admired it deeply, with a quite a few staggering epiphanies along the way.
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I took my sweet time. Months. By the end the book is almost only stasis, too. But 100 years after publication it still has that weirdness around the eyes, in the stare, no-one has touched it. I admired it deeply, with a quite a few staggering epiphanies along the way.
What can you do against a guy who would fashion a sonnet from lines of Shakespeare's sonnets mostly (with one major tweak).
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
What can you do against a guy who would fashion a sonnet from lines of Shakespeare's sonnets mostly (with one major tweak).
The Ring is a collection of great texts and should be held as a landmark book for English-language poetry, but that's not to dismiss any of this impressive body of work. All in all, what captivates is the match made in heaven of form and content, to the point it all seems inextricable.
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
During my one class with a Nobel prize winner to be (Physics not Literature) I was hardly paying attention. Young as we were, we couldn't not have known.
December 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
During my one class with a Nobel prize winner to be (Physics not Literature) I was hardly paying attention. Young as we were, we couldn't not have known.
I am sure they waited for the people with the juiciest takes to be dead and buried, but truth will out...
December 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I am sure they waited for the people with the juiciest takes to be dead and buried, but truth will out...
I am struggling to find anything through Google but one lonely blog entry that I read back in the day, in an entry by critics Bob Westal. Can't find more information.
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I am struggling to find anything through Google but one lonely blog entry that I read back in the day, in an entry by critics Bob Westal. Can't find more information.
On Chayefsky's text.
December 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
On Chayefsky's text.
C. 2012, the Cinematheque had a 16mm print that was in too rough shape to show. They got a loan of a 35mm from Germany, that looked good. On arrival, the sound was I think unplayable on modern equipment. What was left was a VHS, which is what they played.
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
C. 2012, the Cinematheque had a 16mm print that was in too rough shape to show. They got a loan of a 35mm from Germany, that looked good. On arrival, the sound was I think unplayable on modern equipment. What was left was a VHS, which is what they played.