#Valérie Wilson

[willowylady]

Valérie Wilson, Un Flic (1972) dir. Jean-Pierre Melville

#Valérie Wilson #jean pierre melville #un flic #trans actress

[1414books]

Protocol

I = 4 D = 17.3.2024, Sunday A = Book 1, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio, page 270 S = Book 3, Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von gestern, page 181

I = 3 D = 10.3.2024, Sunday A = Book 9, Yukio Mishima, Confessioni di una maschera, page 104 S = Book 7, Robert Shae, Robert Wilson, Illuminatus, page 83

I = 2 D = 25.2.2024, Sunday A = Book 2, Yasunari Kawabata, La casa delle belle addormenante, page 72 S = Book 9, Heinrich Heine, Deutschland Ein Wintermärchen, page 56

I = 1 D = 18.2.24, Sunday A = Book 13, Briony Lavery, The Believers, page 38 S = Book 2, Paul Valéry, Cahiers 1, page 571

Python Random Module (Mersenne Twister) https://www.w3schools.com/python/trypython.asp?filename=demo_ref_random_randint

[alexlacquemanne]

Janvier MMXXIV

Films

Bridget Jones Baby (Bridget Jones's Baby) (2016) de Sharon Maguire avec Renée Zellweger, Patrick Dempsey, Shirley Henderson, Gemma Jones et Jim Broadbent

Arnaque à Hollywood (The Comeback Trail) (2020) de George Gallo avec Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Eddie Griffin, Emile Hirsch et Kate Katzman

Copie conforme (1947) de Jean Dréville avec Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Annette Poivre, Madeleine Suffel, Jane Marken, Danièle Franconville, Jean-Jacques Delbo et Léo Lapara

L'Inconnu du Nord-Express (Strangers on a Train) (1951) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne, Jonathan Hale et Laura Elliott

Une affaire d'honneur (2023) de et avec Vincent Perez et aussi Roschdy Zem, Doria Tillier, Damien Bonnard, Guillaume Gallienne, Nicolas Gaspar, Pepe Lorente

Hôtel fantôme (Das letzte Problem) (2019) de et avec Karl Markovics et aussi Stefan Pohl, Maria Fliri, Julia Koch, Max Moor, Sunnyi Melles Laura Bilgeri

Aviator (The Aviator) (2004) de Martin Scorsese avec Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Adam Scott, Kelli Garner, Alec Baldwin, Ian Holm, Jude Law et Danny Huston

Palais royal ! (2005) de et avec Valérie Lemerciere et aussi Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Aumont, Mathilde Seigner, Denis Podalydès, Michel Vuillermoz, Gisèle Casadesus, Gilbert Melki, Maurane

Du plomb pour l'inspecteur (Pushover) (1954) de Richard Quine avec Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malonne, E.G. Marshall, Allen Nourse, James Anderson et Joe Bailey

Les Douze Salopards (The Dirty Dozen) (1967) de Robert Aldrich avec Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez et Telly Savalas

Le silence des ânes (Das Schweigen der Esel) (2022) de et avec Karl Markovics et aussi Julia Koch, Caroline Frank, Gerhard Liebmann, Valentin Sottopietra, Klaus Windisch, Tobias Fend, Julian Sark, Stefan Pohl

Elmer Gantry le charlatan (Elmer Gantry) (1960) de Richard Brooks avec Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page et Edward Andrews

Tendre Poulet (1978) de Philippe de Broca avec Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost, Roger Dumas, Raymond Gérôme, Guy Marchand, Simone Renant et Georges Wilson

Judy (2019) de Rupert Goold avec Renée Zellweger, Darci Shaw, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Finn Wittrock, Richard Cordery, Jessie Buckley et Bella Ramsey

Cinquième Colonne (Saboteur) (1942) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd, Alma Kruger et Vaughan Glaser

Robin des Bois, prince des voleurs (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) (1991) de Kevin Reynolds avec Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Nick Brimble et Michael McShane

La Fine Fleur (2020) de Pierre Pinaud avec Catherine Frot, Melan Omerta, Fatsah Bouyahmed, Olivia Côte, Marie Petiot, Vincent Dedienne et Serpentine Teyssier

Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959) de Jean Delannoy avec Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier, Robert Hirsch, Paul Frankeur, Michel Vitold, Camille Guérini, Serge Rousseau et Micheline Luccioni

On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter (1980) de Philippe de Broca avec Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Catherine Alric, Marc Dudicourt, Paulette Dubost et Roger Carel

Gosford Park (2001) de Robert Altman avec Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Camilla Rutherford, Charles Dance, Geraldine Somerville, Tom Hollander, Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren et Emily Watson

Meurtre à Hollywood (Sunset) (1988) de Blake Edwards avec Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards, Victoria Alperin et Patricia Hodge

Iron Claw (The Iron Claw) (2023) de Sean Durkin avec Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Holt McCallany, Lily James, Maura Tierney et Stanley Simons

Séries

La croisière s'amuse Saison 1

Une traversée de chien - L'Amour fou - Ami ou Ennemi - Farces et Attrapes - Une célébrité encombrante - Le Grand Air - Le docteur voit double - Le Grand Amour - Le Père du commandant - Monnaie de singe - La vie est belle au large - Tel est pris qui croyait prendre - Jeux de mains - Les Grandes Retrouvailles : première partie - Les Grandes Retrouvailles : deuxième partie - La Victoire en dansant - Le Gros Lot - Coupable, mais de quoi ? - Souvenirs Souvenirs - Il y a des jours comme ça - Qui comprend quelque chose à l'amour ? - Le commandant connaît la musique - Coup de folie - Ne comptez pas sur moi pour tomber amoureuse

Coffre à Catch

#148 : Bonne année 2024 à tout l'univers d'Agius ! - #149 : Zack Ryder : Woo Woo Woo, tu le sais ! - #150 : L'exceptionnel retour de Colby ! - #151 : Les adieux au catch de Tommy Dreamer ? - #152 : Tommy Dreamer enfin champion de la ECW !

Les Simpson Saison 1

Noël mortel - Bart le génie - L'Odyssée d'Homer - Simpsonothérapie - Terreur à la récré - Ste Lisa Blues - L'Abominable Homme des bois - Bart a perdu la tête - Marge perd la boule - L'Odyssée d'Homer - L'Espion qui venait de chez moi - Un clown à l'ombre - Une soirée d'enfer

Downton Abbey Saison 5

Tradition et Rébellion - Un vent de liberté - Le Bonheur d'être aimé - Révolution à Downton - Tout ce qui compte… - Étape par étape - Désillusions - Menaces et Préjugés - La Réconciliation

Castle Saison 4

Renaissance - Lame solitaire - Casse-tête - L'Empreinte d'une arme - L'Art de voler - Démons - Otages - Dans l'antre du jeu - Course contre la mort - Détache-moi

Kaamelott Livre IV

Tous les matins du monde première partie - Tous les matins du monde deuxième partie - Raison et Sentiments - Les Tartes aux fraises - Le Dédale - Les Pisteurs - Le Traître - La Faute première partie - La Faute deuxième partie - L’Ascension du Lion - Une vie simple - Le Privilégié - Le Bouleversé - Les Liaisons dangereuses - Les Exploités II - Dagonet et le Cadastre - Duel première partie - Duel deuxième partie - La Foi bretonne - Au service secret de Sa Majesté - La Parade - Seigneur Caius - L’Échange première partie - L’Échange deuxième partie - L’Échelle de Perceval - La Chambre de la reine - Les Émancipés - La Révoquée - La Baliste II - Les Bonnes - La Révolte III - Le Rapport - L’Art de la table - Les Novices - Les Refoulés - Les Tuteurs II - Le Tourment IV - Le Rassemblement du corbeau II - Le Grand Départ - L’Auberge rouge - Les Curieux : première partie - Les Curieux : deuxième partie - La Clandestine - Les Envahisseurs - La vie est belle - La Relève - Les Tacticiens : première partie - Les Tacticiens : deuxième partie - Drakkars ! - La Réponse - Unagi IV - La Permission - Anges et Démons - La Rémanence - Le Refuge - Le Dragon gris - La Potion de vivacité II - Vox populi III - La Sonde - La Réaffectation - La Poétique II : première partie - La Poétique II : deuxième partie

Affaires sensibles

Henri Martin, debout contre la guerre d’Indochine - 1923 : Germaine Berton : l’anarchiste qui tua pour venger Jaurès - Prince de Conty : où sont passés les lingots de l'épave? - De Paris à Dakar, le rallye du désert - Cannes 1987, Pialat et sa palme - Affaire Mis et Thiennot, la fin de l'énigme judiciaire ? - Agnès Le Roux, la disparition d’une héritière - Les mystères de Chevaline

The Crown Saison 6

Un engouement fanatique - Hors du temps

Le Voyageur Saison 2

La Forêt perchée - La tentation du mal

Alfred Hitchcock présente Saison 5, 6, 3, 7

Arthur - La Vengeance - Chantage - Pan! vous êtes mort

Spectacles

Concert du Nouvel An en direct du Musikverein, à Vienne (2024)

Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2011)

Sexe et jalousie (1993) de Marc Camoletti et Georges Folgoas avec Jean-Luc Moreau, Marie-Pierre Casey, Patrick Guillemin, Marie Lenoir et Bunny Godillot

Billy Cobham's Glass Menagerie (1981) live at Riazzino, Switzerland

Agents Are Forever : Danish National Symphony Orchestra (2020) avec Caroline Henderson

Bonté divine (2010) de Frédéric Lenoir et Louis-Michel Colla avec Jean-Loup Horwitz, Benoit Nguyen-Tat, Saïd Amadis et Roland Giraud

Livres

Kid Paddle, Tome 1 : Jeux de vilains de Midam

Détective Conan, Tome 20 de Gôshô Aoyama

Castle, Tome 1 : La dernière aube de Brian Michael Bendis, Kelly Sue DeConnick et Tom Raney

James Bond : Le guide officiel de 007 de Lee Pfeiffer et Dave Worrall

#mediatheque #janvier24

[caprano]

Streiflicht

(SZ) Als sich im November 1975 ein paar Staatschefs in dem französischen Schloss Rambouillet trafen, nannte man diese Zusammenkunft noch nicht Gipfel, sondern Kamingespräch. Was das geistliche Drumherum angeht, so weiß die Überlieferung, dass Frankreichs Präsident Valéry Giscard d'Estaing und der italienische Ministerpräsident Aldo Moro (beide katholisch) zusammen mit US-Präsident Gerald Ford (Episcopal Church of America) einen katholischen Gottesdienst besuchten. Der deutsche Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt und Großbritanniens Premier Harold Wilson sollen um diese frühe Stunde noch geschlafen haben, und der japanische Ministerpräsident Takeo Miki unternahm in der Zwischenzeit einen Spaziergang.

Von Takeo Miki wird überdies berichtet, dass er sich zwei Gemälde von François Boucher ins Zimmer hatte schaffen lassen, doch wer jetzt "Oh là là" sagt und kennerisch mit der Zunge schnalzt, sollte zuerst darüber nachdenken, ob Miki mit den Bildern nicht etwas habe überdecken wollen, vielleicht ein Kruzifix, das ihn störte und das zu entfernen das französische Protokoll leichtfertigerweise versäumt hatte. In Münster, wo sich die G-7-Außenminister jetzt um den Zustand der Welt kümmerten, kam niemand in die Versuchung, ein religiös motiviertes Utensil zu kaschieren oder bemüht lässig darüber hinwegzusehen. Das deutsche Protokoll war nämlich so umsichtig gewesen, das den Friedenssaal zierende Kreuz vorher wegzuschaffen - aus organisatorischen Gründen, wie es hieß. Organisation ist schließlich, wie überall, auch bei Gipfeltreffen die Hauptsache. Was haben wir nicht schon gestaunt, wenn Tausendschaften von Polizisten dafür ins Feld zogen, wenn besagtes Feld im Umkreis von fünfzig Kilometern zum Krisengebiet erklärt wurde, wenn Hubschrauber wie zornige Rüttelfalken am Himmel standen und wenn Gullydeckel zugeschweißt wurden, als gäb's kein Morgen mit zuverlässig verstopften Kanälen.

In Münster hat man das Kreuz gerade noch beseitigt, ehe jemand von denen, die wahrscheinlich gar nicht ans Anstoßnehmen dachten, daran Anstoß nehmen konnte. Bei dem Kreuz und der aus Bibelstellen zusammengeschusterten Inschrift auf der Kuppel des Humboldt-Forums in Berlin war man nicht so vorausschauend gewesen, mit dem Effekt, dass nun alle, die im Anstoßnehmen Übung haben, daran auch prompt Anstoß nehmen. Das Kreuz ist leider so gut befestigt, dass man es nicht einfach herunterholen und wegstellen kann. Die Inschrift ist ebenfalls fix, weswegen es Kulturstaatsministerin Claudia Roth für eine gute Idee hält, den bombastischen Text mit alternativen Texten, kommentierenden wie reflektierenden, temporär zu überblenden. Im Außenministerium sollte man sich das zu eigen machen, denn die Gefahr, dass Kreuze in Gipfelräumen stehen oder hängen, ist längst nicht gebannt.

#westfälischer friede #münster

[detournementsmineurs]

"Plancha" d'Éric Lavaine - suite du film "Barbecue" du même réalisateur (2014) - avec Lambert Wilson, Sophie Duez, Franck Dubosc, Caroline Anglade, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Lysiane Meis, Lionel Abelanski, Valérie Crouzet, Jérôme Commandeur et Alice Llenas, octobre 20222.

#films #spirit #Bretagne #LAvaine #Wilson #Duez #Dubosc #Anglade #DeTonquedec #Meis #Abelanski #Crouzet #Commandeur #Llenas

[kpwx]

E. A. Poe, de Walter Lennig

A pesar de que es considerablemente mejor que Edgar Poe y sus obras de Verne, E. A. Poe de Walter Lennig sigue estando muy lejos de ser una biografía definitiva. Es un libro más bien general en el que apenas se entra en la obra del escritor, pero cumple bastante bien si lo que se quiere es conocer más detalladamente la difícil vida que tuvo. Yo lo he leído porque este mes intentaré releer su obra completa (narrativa, ensayo y poesía) si el tiempo, el ánimo y las otras lecturas me lo permiten, y necesitaba un mayor contexto. En todo caso, el repaso que hace Cortázar de su vida en la traducción de sus cuentos es bastante buena, y con eso basta para el que quiera tener algo más de información antes de leerlo.

Como dije, no es una biografía demasiado profunda, y por eso no tengo mucho que decir sobre ella. Eso sí, hay dos cosas sobre la vida y la obra de Poe que trata y que yo en cierta medida desconocía: el reconocimiento o la popularidad que tuvo en vida y los elementos biográficos presentes en sus cuentos. En lo que respecta a lo primero, yo pensaba que había pasado más desapercibido en vida de lo que fue en realidad; en lo segundo, que al desconocer varios episodios y detalles de su vida no había tenido en cuenta cuánto de ella es posible reconocer en su obra (un ejemplo de esto es “William Wilson”). A falta de otros apéndices, el libro incluye al final una selección de opiniones de algunos escritores (Baudelaire, Conan Doyle, Valéry, Sartre, Jünger y Borges, entre otros) sobre Poe.

[nevoproc]

La Femme Publique / Vessel, Court of Lions (Hyetal Night Mix)

#on the run #бег #публичная женщина #анджей жулавски #ламбер вильсон #lambert wilson #франсис юстер #francis huster #валери каприски #valérie kaprisky #sonotown #kowton podcast #hyetal night mix #court of lions #vessel #andrzej zulawski #the public woman #la femme publique

[ashtrayfloors]

Vaudeville De Luxe

My baby’s got a black cat bone. —Hop Wilson

A fetish, so the dictionaries tell us, is a spirit attached to a material object. “Hide your God, He’s your strength,” advised the poet Paul Valéry, and the same goes for the fetish. It’s usually kept out of sight. 

Cornell’s boxes are like witch doctors’ concoctions. They contain objects that have sacred and magical properties. The box is a little voodoo temple with an altar. Love medicine or medicine of immortality is being prepared. In the meantime, you’ve got to whisper to the black cat bone if you want to make it do its thing.

—Charles Simic, from Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell

#charles simic #joseph cornell #dime store alchemy #currently reading

[chroniclesofamber]

THE CHRONICLES OF AMBER & History Lessons II

The first two books of Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber — Nine Princes in Amber and The Guns of Avalon — were written between 1967 and the early 1970s.  The Vietnam War cast a long shadow from the 1960s into the first years of the next decade.  In Nine Princes in Amber, for example, one of the most memorable episodes of action and conflict occurs in the seventh chapter:

“The sheets of light and heat flapped a steady, welling thunder as we ran, and the waves of warmth beat upon us, washed over us. Soon they were right there alongside us, and the trees blackened and the leaves flaked down, and some of the smaller trees began to sway.  For as far ahead as we could see, our way was an alley of fires…  We made it to the fork, though, beating out flames on our smoldering clothing, wiping ashes from our eyes…  We ran through burning grasses…  The interlocked branches of the trees overhead had become as the beams in a cathedral of fire…”

The Vietnam War was part of the nightly news back then.  Stories and images of napalm and agent orange falling upon the jungles of Southeast Asia were current at the time and the quote above would have resonated in the American consciousness.  But it was not just the horrors of war haunting America.  There was also civil unrest and a rebellious younger generation ready to take up arms against the old guard who had nourished the conflicts and tensions leading to the strife stretching from the ’60s into the ’70s.

After the baptism of fire experienced by narrator and main character Corwin — which concludes with the provident arrival of riflemen trained and led by him to defend Amber and position him as the kingdom’s effective ruler — he finds himself at the top of a society struggling with an uneasy and temporary peace.  Powerful foes have been unleashed upon the immortal city, and it looks like it may have been an inside job.  In fact, it may even be that Corwin himself has provided unintended assistance to the enemy.  This self-reflective attitude of examining one’s own role in the evils plaguing the world belonged very much to the troubling era which began with the assassination of President Kennedy and ended with the resignation of President Nixon.

SIGN OF THE UNICORN (1975)

History:  The longest gap between the publication of any of the books of The Chronicles of Amber:  three years.  An air of defeat hangs over America, as well as over places beyond.  The Club of Rome puts out its report “The Limits to Growth” and in 1974 the world population reaches four billion.  The Apollo 13 failure of 1970 has left its mark, followed by a decline in support for the program dooming the final three missions to cancellation.  Apollo 17 therefore sees the last men on the Moon in December of 1972, when one of the most popular photographs ever is taken — the iconic “Blue Marble” image of a nearly full Earth — and soon becomes an emblem of the environmental movement.  In contrast to the “Blue Marble,” in the summer of ’72 the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Napalm girl” photograph makes headlines, and less than a year later the last U.S. soldier leaves Vietnam subsequent to the Paris Peace Accords.  The war is over and the U.S. did not win it.

The war may be over, but deep problems remain — a description of the years during which Zelazny wrote Sign of the Unicorn, but also a description of the contents of the book itself.  “The Troubles” — as the conflict in Northern Ireland comes to be called — of the United Kingdom undergo a rapid escalation:  the British Army shoots dead 14 unarmed marchers on terrible Bloody Sunday; the British embassy in Dublin is burned down during rioting all over Ireland; bombs detonate in Whitehall and the Old Bailey; car bombs set by the Ulster Volunteer Force in Dublin and Monaghan kill 33 civilians and injure 300 others.

Meanwhile, a story just as big unfolds on the other side of the Atlantic:  Five White House operatives are arrested for the burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel.  Nixon orders special prosecutor Archibald Cox to be fired over his subpoena of recordings of incriminating White House conversations, but is eventually compelled by the Supreme Court to release the tapes.  Impeachment proceedings underway, the public and even members of the Republican Party against him, Nixon resigns in August of 1974 and the unelected Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes President.  Likewise, Eric falls and Corwin steps in as the interim regent of an Amber reeling from war and internal strife, a state of affairs closely matching the condition of America as offered in Nixon’s resignation speech.

Lesson:  Corwin finds himself the target of an attempt to frame him for the murder of Caine, his brother Gérard pummels him in a fight and dangles him over a cliff, he is nearly stabbed to death in his suite only hours after Brand is knifed in similar fashion, in the misty city of ghosts known as Tir-na Nog’th he is attacked and comes perilously close to plummeting to his death.  In this context, the cautions of his sister Fiona regarding the dangers of wearing for too long the ultimate artifact of power, the Jewel of Judgment, take on new meaning.  She warns it can kill him.  The information possibly saves his life, as it persuades him to remove the Jewel when at the brink of death.  The lesson is bigger than that, however.  Corwin learns that power without knowledge or wisdom is dangerous and can be fatal, something which his brother Eric, as king, did not discover in time.

Journey:  It all begins with Corwin’s discovery of a crime and a corpse, which leads straight to his learning of Random’s attempt to rescue Brand from his tower.  And it ends with Corwin and Random, along with Ganelon, looking down upon the damaged Pattern (also the result of a crime, though they do not know that yet), just a day after Corwin’s meeting with a freshly rescued and recovered Brand.  Crimes call out for investigation and from the first pages of the first book Corwin has played the detective.  In the opening scene, Corwin has questions for Random and in the final scene he finally has some answers.  Now he knows from his interview with Brand that there was a conspiracy by the red-haired faction to seize Amber’s throne, that Dara is descended from Chaos and intended for that throne, that a game has been in progress where he has been but a useful knight and where the broken Pattern before him is the board upon which it has been played.

Watergate, Painful Endings...

...and Perhaps Resurrections — the Mid-’70s

“The sun was that great orb of molten gold we had seen earlier.  The sky was a deeper blue than that of Amber, and there were no clouds in it.  That sea was a matching blue, unspecked by sail or island.  I saw no birds, and I heard no sounds other than our own.  An enormous silence lay upon this place, this day.  In the bowl of my suddenly clear vision, the Pattern at last achieved its disposition upon the surface below.  I thought at first that it was inscribed in the rock, but as we drew nearer I saw that it was contained within it—gold-pink swirls, like veining in an exotic marble, natural-seeming despite the obvious purpose to the design… A dark, rough-edged smudge had obliterated an area of the section immediately beneath us, running from its outer rim to the center.”

Dark times are depicted in Sign of the Unicorn amidst the darkest days of the Seventies.  OPEC launches its oil embargo, soon doubling the price of crude, all just after the dollar has been devalued 10%.  A recession affecting most of the world ensues, and the oil crisis does not wind down until 1974.  Cults, destructive to themselves and often to others, appear in newspapers and on television.  The Manson Family is sentenced, the Symbionese Liberation Army abducts and brainwashes heiress Patty Hearst, the Heaven’s Gate UFO cult is founded near San Diego.

Violent groups on the radical left, however, are increasingly foiled and contained:  the Baader-Meinhof Red Army Faction is arrested; the Japanese Red Army, in decline after the Lod Airport attack, is defunct as an independent organization within a year of the attack; the Angry Brigade ends its run in a British courtroom. 

At the same time, the political left makes gains:  Labour’s Harold Wilson returns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party becomes Chancellor of West Germany after a spy scandal brings down his predecessor; centrist Valéry Giscard d’Estaing succeeds Pompidou as President of France; the Carnation Revolution overthrows Portugal’s dictatorship and restores democracy; the Democratic Party logs historic victories in the House, Senate and state Governorships.  The Old Bailey sees the first woman serve as a judge, the U.S. Congress sends the ERA to the states for ratification, women are finally admitted to Dartmouth College, the FBI hires women as agents for the first time, equal pay for women is mandated in Australia — liberal politics enjoys a resurgence during this period.

Whether intentional or not, the revolutionary red-haired cabal of Amber mirrors the restless idealists of the times, violent and otherwise, hoping to institute change.  The overreach by forces on the right, responsible for the deaths of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr., at last seems to come full circle with the resignation of Nixon and a national rejection of the authoritarian wielding of autocratic power.  As already suggested, the hubris Eric demonstrates (like Nixon) in crowning himself king and regularly resorting to the most dramatic powers of the Jewel of Judgment brings him to his death on the slopes of Kolvir.

Eric has died, yet while Corwin and Brand both tread recklessly close to death they instead return bearing valuable new information — and, in one case, an enchanted mechanical arm — introducing the theme of resurrection and restoration.  The Vietnam War at last is over, the crisis of the Nixon presidency has ended; the world is nowhere near out of the woods, but these events provide scope for respite and relief, and perhaps…hope?  Vietnam and Watergate have together represented a perpetual storm cloud over America, a weight upon the world.  The oil crisis has been harrowing, but soon leads directly to alternative energy R&D and long-needed improvements in automobiles.  The world is still beset with sweeping, deep-seated problems, and the clouds have not truly cleared, but rays of hope are breaking through to shine on both beautiful inspirations and stark realities, much as the brilliant sun of the real Amber illuminates the broken Pattern in the final scene of Sign of the Unicorn.

“‘Then—looking for congruence—that would be about where our own Pattern lies,’ [Random said as we regarded the oval area of smooth, level rock].

‘Yes,’ I said again.

‘And that blotted area is to the south, from whence comes the black road.’

I nodded slowly as the understanding arrived and forged itself into a certainty.

‘What does it mean?’ he asked.  ‘It seems to correspond to the true state of affairs, but beyond that I do not understand its significance.  Why have we been brought here and shown this thing?’

‘It does not correspond to the true state of affairs,’ I said.  ‘It is the true state of affairs.’”

[...to be continued in a future post...]

#chronicles of amber #roger zelazny #sign of the unicorn #the chronicles of amber #the seventies

[thewidowstanton]

The Widow’s Best of 2019

Welcome readers to our Best of 2019 round-up. Some of you might remember that when one half of The Widow, Liz Arratoon, started writing about the circus 25 years ago – with Widow other half Adrian Arratoon by her side – she was almost a lone advocate for the art form. Don’t you get jaded, people ask us. Absolutely not! But we do long for something a bit different, and this year we have been disappointed that so many circus shows and acts have started to look a bit similar and yawny.

One notable exception gets our Best Show, and we did love Company Soralino’s clowning with cardboard boxes, and Mizuki Shinagawa on silks at the 40th Cirque de Demain festival, but we have cast our gaze beyond circus to take in whatever else has taken our fancy. Just to remind people, and before any more sensitive hearts are broken, anything we have seen this year, no matter when it was created, is eligible for selection, but if we haven’t seen it, it isn’t. Our list, our rules, and, in no particular order, here it is. All shows are in London unless otherwise stated.

BEST SHOW: We really enjoyed Aurelia Thierrée’s Bells and Spells at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, but our Best Show is La Nuit du Cerf (A Deer in the Headlights) by Cirque Le Roux, seen on French TV. This is the company’s follow-up to The Elephant in the Room, and new cast members Valerie Benoit and Mason Ames join the original troupe of Lolita Costet, Yannick Thomas, Philip Rosenberg and Gregory Arsenal. Together they showcase a sophisticated and exquisitely choreographed blend of top-flight acrobatics, handstands, hand-to-hand, roller-skating, tight wire, you name it, in a totally fresh and exciting presentation, all backed by a wonderfully eclectic soundtrack. If only more companies could come up with something so innovative.

FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Extraordinary acrobat Esmeralda Nikolajeff, part of the line-up for Barely Methodical Troupe’s third show, SHIFT, which opened the London International Mime Festival at the Platform Theatre.

MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Wes Peden, juggler, who had a scintillating guest spot in Gandini Juggling and Alexander Whitley’s show Spring at Sadler’s Wells. Don’t miss his solo show Zebra at the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room during the London International Mime Festival in January 2020.

BEST GIG: Le SuperHomard in the library at the Institut Français as part of the Music Rendezvous season, and Durand Jones and the Indications, seen at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall during Meltdown.

MOST ENTERTAINING: Lucy Worsley’s talk about Queen Victoria at Southwark Cathedral.

BEST VENUE: The Poodle Club in Sydenham. 

BEST ACT: Foot-jugglers Marina and Svetlana Tsodikova, who are the Crystal Ladies in Cirque du Soleil’s Totem. They also get MOST GLAMOROUS.

BEST COSTUMES: Alejandro Gómez Palomo for The Male Dancer, choreographed by Iván Pérez, seen on the Arte app; Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show (pictured below) seen at the Folies Bergère in Paris, and Queen Victoria’s crown, designed by Sheila Hay for A Night with Thick and Tight at the Lilian Baylis Studio, during the London International Mime Festival.

BEST INTERVIEW: Alec Baldwin’s chat with Elaine Stritch on his podcast Here’s the Thing.

BEST MAGIC TRICK: Shin Lim, winner of America’s Got Talent: The Champions 2019, doing card tricks.

LOUDEST GASP!: This photo of Joan Crawford, seen on @cjubarrington’s glorious Twitter account, where he posts vintage photos of Hollywood stars.

BEST MOVE: Anything by world champion football freestyler Liv Cooke.

BEST CASTAWAY: Living legend John Cooper Clarke on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.

BEST GOWN: Kathleen Nellis’ fabulous recreation of Marlene Dietrich’s ‘naked’ dress for Peter Groom’s show Natural Duty, originally designed by Jean Louis. Peter also wore it in Dietrich: Live in London, seen at the Crazy Coqs, Live at Zédel, for which he gets BEST CABARET.

MOMENT OF WONDER: Andy Goldsworthy throwing handfuls of snow into the wind in the documentary Rivers and Tides.

BEST LOOK AT THE MET GALA: Harry Styles wearing a sheer Gucci blouse!

HOTTEST TICKET: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s solo triumph, Fleabag, at Wyndham’s Theatre, and, yes, we did speak to Andrew Scott this year!

FUNNIEST PERSON: David Mills, who stormed New York with Bitter Endings, but we saw him at the Poodle Club. Someone! Book this show for London!

BEST DANCE: The Seasons’ Canon choreographed by Crystal Pite at the Opera Garnier, seen on the Arte app.

BEST SET: Anna Reid’s simple, stylish and effective design for The Sweet Science of Bruising at Wilton’s Music Hall.

BEST SHOWBIZ STORY: The Man Behind the Microphone, first heard on Outlook on BBC World Service. The story of how filmmaker Claire Belhassine discovered that her unassuming Tunisian grandfather, Hedi Jouini, had been a singing megastar. Then we found the film of the same name.

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Liz Garbus’ 2016 Leave Nothing Unsaid, in which Anderson Cooper interviews his remarkable mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, about her life. Devastating and moving.

MOST FLAMBOYANT: Zack MacLeod Pinsent, who dresses like this all the time!

BEST SHOWBIZ BOOK – MALE ARTIST: Me by Elton John with Alexis Petrides.

BEST SHOWBIZ BOOK – FEMALE ARTIST: Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme by Mary Wilson… of the Supremes, with Patricia Romanowski and Ahrgus Juilliard.

BEST AUDIENCE: Ah, woof!

MOST NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES: Ten years of The Double R Club, which was founded by Benjamin Louche and Rose Thorne, and runs at Bethnal Green’s Working Men’s Club, and three years of Cabaret vs Cancer, the registered charity started by Rose.

BEST VINTAGE CIRCUS PICTURE: Coo!

BEST FILM: Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman – which should have won the Oscar – and Olivia Wilde’s delightful teen comedy Booksmart.

BEST FILM SCORE: Out of Blue by Clint Mansell.

MOST IMPRESSIVE MEMORY FEAT: An hour and 40 minutes’ worth of words spoken by the one and only Maggie Smith, who returned to the stage in A German Life at the Bridge Theatre.

MOST ALLURING: Dina Martina, seen at Soho Theate Downstairs in Forgotten but Not Gone.

MOST MISSED: Agnès Varda, Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James!), and the French TV variety show Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde, hosted by Patrick Sébastien, which started in 1998 and ended this year.

GONE FAR TOO SOON: The creative genius Nell Gifford, co-founder of Giffords Circus, who died at 46.

MOST ANTICIPATED: Obviously Wes Peden’s previously mentioned Zebra, and Daniele Finzi Pasca’s latest creation, NUDA, premiering on 11 September 2020 at LAC, Lake Lugano in Switzerland.

Look out for our first interview of 2020, with Scottish aerialist and acobat Lauren Jamieson, who has a PhD in chemistry but gave up her science career to focus on circus full time. She will appear in The Feathers of Daedalus show Tarot during the Vault Festival 2020.

Picture credits: Company Soralino, Valérie Thénard Béal; Wes Peden, Pierre Feniello; Peter Groom, V’s Anchor Studio. Any we’ve missed, please let us know.

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Публичная женщина La femme publique (1984)

Добро пожаловать в экспрессионистский мир новаторской достоевщины. Такое в середине восьмидесятых предлагал лишь один режиссер - Анджей Жулавски. Он предлагал весьма неожиданные вещи. Внимание зрителя фиксировалось на совсем обычной, современной и лишенной скромности девушке. Потом все взоры обращались к значимости “Бесов” Достоевского, в постановке которых принимает участие главная героиня. Ну, а после нужно было лишь довести все до абсурда, сводя сюжетный ряд культового произведения с аллюзорными орнаментами из современной европейской жизни. Как не наслаждаться любителям русской литературы тем, с какой тщательностью Жулавски вкрапливает цитаты из Достоевского в мозаику современной жизни. Будут тут и рассказы про убийство священника, и могущественные тайные общества, и террористы, и целая галерея странных человеческих портретов. Вполне себе - “Бесы”. 

Привычные для Жулавски сбивчивость и бессвязность выглядели тут весьма корректно. Ведь при всех злодеяниях героев, фильм не был злым. Подчеркнутая абсурдность оставляла пищу для самых различных толкований, а присутствие жестокости никак не позволяло делать выводы о пропаганде насилия. И это давало совсем другую, качественно более мощную, проработку. В тот год, картина Жулавски выглядела одной из самых сильных. Он будто прочувствовал и зафиксировал дыхание времени. Тем удивительнее было награждение “Сезаром” пошлой в своей утилитарности ленте Зиди “Откройте, полиция”.

Валери Каприски предлагалось выжать бенефис. Множество обнаженных сцен, истерик, секса и напряжения. Такой уровень игры был по силам далеко не всем. Но, Анджей обладал удивительным даром работы с артистами. К слову, более никогда Валери не делала и половины всего того напалма, который она выдала в том далеком 1984 году.

Через год Жулавски выпустит очень похожую картину. Тоже на основе Достоевского, но только с Софи Марсо в главной роли. И тот фильм то��е не особо примут. Но, выигрышный расклад был очевиден

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Janvier MMXXI

Films

Alexandre le Bienheureux (1968) de Yves Robert avec Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène Jobert, Paul Le Person et Pierre Richard

Les Mariés de l'an II (1971) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Sami Frey, Laura Antonelli et Michel Auclair

Tendre Poulet (1978) de Philippe de Broca avec Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric et Hubert Deschamps

Le cave se rebiffe (1961) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Maurice Biraud, Bernard Blier, Martine Carol et Françoise Rosay

Jackie (2016) de Pablo Larraín avec Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig, Peter Sarsgaard et John Hurt

Ivanhoé (1952) de Richard Thorpe avec Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine et George Sanders

Nevada Smith (1966) de Henry Hathaway avec Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette et Martin Landau

Les Enchaînés (Notorious) (1946) d’Alfred Hitchcock avec Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman et Claude Rains

Mission impossible (Mission: Impossible) (1996) de Brian De Palma avec Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jon Voight et Jean Reno

Working Girl (1988) de Mike Nichols avec Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver et Alec Baldwin

Man Trouble (1992) de Bob Rafelson avec Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D'Angelo et Veronica Cartwright

The Island (2005) de Michael Bay avec Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou et Sean Bean

Vivement dimanche ! (1983) de François Truffaut avec Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon et Philippe Laudenbach

The Artist (2011) de Michel Hazanavicius avec Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, James Cromwell et John Goodman

Les Vikings (The Vikings) (1958) de Richard Fleischer avec Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh et Ernest Borgnine

C'était un rendez-vous (1976) de Claude Lelouch avec Claude Lelouch et Gunilla Friden

Alceste à bicyclette (2013) de Philippe Le Guay avec Fabrice Luchini, Lambert Wilson et Maya Sansa

Mission : Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) de Christopher McQuarrie avec Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg et Jeremy Renner

Spectacle

L’Hôtel du libre échange (2015) de Georges Feydeau avec Thierry Beccaro, Virginie Guilhaume, Bruno Guillon, Valérie Maurice, Patrice Laffont et Carinne Teyssandier

La Dame de chez Maxim (2020) de Georges Feydeau avec Micha Lescot, Léa Drucker, André Marcon, Anne Rotger, Eric Prat, Christophe Paou, Reinhardt Wagner, Valerian Behar Bonnet

Le crédit (2019) de Jordi Galceran avec Didier Bénureau et Daniel Russo

Séries

Kaamelott Livre I, II

Un Roi à la taverne - Raison d’argent - L’Enlèvement de Guenièvre - L’Escorte II - Sous les Verrous - Vox Populi II - Unagi II - Les Exploités - Séli et les Rongeurs - Feue la vache de Roparzh - Les Alchimistes - Les Chiens de Guerre - La Botte Secrète II - Spiritueux - La Corde - Un Roi à la Taverne II - La Fête du Printemps - La Joute Ancillaire - La Garde Royale - L’Ambition - Le Reclassement - Silbury Hill - La Vigilance d’Arthur - La Chambre - Le Rassemblement du Corbeau - Le Terroriste - Le Portrait - La Révolte

Nestor Burma Saison 2, 3

Retour au bercail - L'Homme au sang bleu

Top Gear Saison 18,19, 7, 11, 8, 12, 13, 22, 21, 16

Feux croisés en Italie - 1500 km a fond de 5eme - Le Road Trip Ideal 2 : partie 1 - Le Road trip Ideal 2 : partie 2 - La vitesse en toute liberté - La traversée du Japon - Dans la vallée du feu - Les Top Gear Awards - Les pires voitures de l'histoire - Gordon Ramsay aux commandes ! - La première voiture amphibie - En tournée avec les Who ! - Trois camions d'enfer - Apprentis policiers - Passion vintage - Small is beautiful - S.O.S Urgences - Trophée Andros - Porsche Cayenne Turbo S contre parachutiste - La fièvre du vintage - USA : On Road Again - Nostalgie des années 80 - Road Trip à Tchernobyl - Mercedes, folle du désert - L'Albanie en Rolls-Royce - La Fiesta dans tous ses états - Surfin’ USA - Made in China - Caravane Tour

The Grand Tour Saison 2, 3, 1

 Pas de script - Spécial Colombie : partie 1 - Spécial Colombie : partie 2 - Courses de Noël - Échappée marocaine - La Loi du plus fort - Oh oui, de l'essence

Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir Saison 5

Meurtres distingués - Interférences - Caméra meurtre

Friends Saison 2, 3

Celui qui affronte les voyous - Celui qui faisait le lien - Celui qui attrape la varicelle - Celui qui embrassait mal - Celui qui avait la technique du câlin - Celui qui ne supportait pas les poupées - Celui qui bricolait - Celui qui se souvient

Doctor Who

Revolution of the Daleks

Alexandra Ehle Saison 2

La Peste

Les petits meurtres d’Agatha Christie Saison 3

La Nuit qui ne finit pas

Livres

Sherlock Holmes et le Mystère du Haut-Koenigsbourg de Jacques Fortier

Batman : Dark Knight 1 : Résurrection de Frank Miller

OSS 117 : Tortures de Jean Bruce

Casse-pipe à la Nation de Léo Malet et Jacques Tardi

#mediatheque #janvier21

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Dès aujourd'hui, imaginons ensemble les histoires de demain !

Pour sa première session, le Tomorrow's Stories Festival s'est installé à Toulouse les 19 et 20 Octobre 2018. Projections au sein du cinéma Gaumont Wilson et présentations à la librairie Ombres Blanches Langues Etrangères étaient au programme durant 48 heures. Cet événement est dédié aux nouvelles technologies comme la réalité augmentée, le cinéma interactif et l'intelligence artificielle.

Le début de matinée du 19 Octobre était dédié à la présentation intitulée « Sortir du cadre : historique et enjeux des nouvelles formes audiovisuelles ». Claire Chatelet a orchestrée cette présentation. Elle est maître de conférences concernant l'audiovisuel et les nouveaux médias au sein de l'université Paul Valéry de Montpellier. Elle évoque l'histoire et les nouveaux projets de la réalité virtuelle.

« La cohérence entre le fond et la forme est géniale » - Annelyse Vielledent, concernant les nouvelles formes audiovisuelles. #tsfestival #J1TSF

La réalité virtuelle est un concept très récent. C'est un domaine scientifique et technique qui exploite l'information et les interfaces comportementales. L'interaction se fait en temps réel, en immersion « pseudo » virtuelle. Dès ses débuts, cette technologie a fait face à une forte médiatisation et entrainé une vague de création d'entreprises en vu de son caractère innovant. _Condition One, _par exemple, est une société américaine qui produit des prestations dans l'objectif de rendre l'expérience virtuelle immersive et interactive. On a venté ses mérites en qualifiant ses procédés d'« utilisation percutante de la réalité virtuelle pour le plus grand bien ». L'objectif est de se déplacer à travers la tablette afin d'observer des images en 360°. Cette entreprise a composée de productions immersives au sein du monde animal, de la médiation ou de conflits. Le studio de production et de technologies VR est basé en Californie, à Brisbane. Mme Chatelet évoque le premier film produit en réalité virtuelle qui a été proposé au sein du festival SunDance en 2014. En vu de l'effervescence autour du concept, le terme a beaucoup été réutilisé. Les  premières réactions étaient « c'est rigolo, c'est dingue ». Les spectateurs n'étaient pas dans le fond du film mais impressionnés par la forme que la diffusion avait prit.

La réalité virtuelle est une nouvelle forme d'écriture qui, au lieu d'ouvrir une fenêtre sur le monde, essaie d'entrainer le spectateur au sein de ce monde. Elle offre une image qui déborde du cadrage traditionnel. Le réalisateur ne donne plus de point de vu particulier afin de laisser place à l'imagination du spectateur. Celui-ci est alors impliqué de manière impérative dans l'image et la réception est presque performatique, ce qui pose un problème éthique. Ces dernières années, la RV a prit d'autres apparences. Elle s'est développée sous forme holographique ou encore sensorielle. L 'exposition « mirages et miracles », a proposé cette année une série de processus holographiques que les spectateurs pouvaient observer à travers une tablette. Le concept a été qualifié de « magie numérique ». La prestation la plus connue est celle de Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Le dispositif permet de projeter un objet ou une personne en 3D dans un espace réel. 

Présentation Jean Luc Mélenchon se projetant en hologramme à Paris : 

https://youtu.be/EyB-NHspN-E

Christelle Derré et Martin Rossi ont également mis en scène l'utilisation de nos sens. En effet, ils ont proposé une « lecture immersive » du livre La maladie de la mort. Le spectateur est plongé sensoriellement au sein la projection. Le corps est impliqué de façon réel, l'effet est perturbant. L'invention de la « lecture autrement » utilise donc le corps et l'esprit afin de donner vie au récit. Scénario, de Denis Del Favero, Stephen Sewell et Maurice Pagnucco est un projet daté de 2010. Il a été conçu au centre cinema research au sein de l'Université de New South Walves. Le scénario se modifie en fonction de la réaction des spectateurs. L'objectif est de créer un récit produit par la machine mais également par l'homme. Ce système est un processus de « Réalité étendue ».

[detournementsmineurs]

"Les Destinées Sentimentales" d'Olivier Assayas (2000) - adapté du roman éponyme de Jacques Chardonne (1947) - avec Cahrles Berling, Emmanuelle Béart, Isabelle Huppert, Julie Depardieu, Olivier Perrier, Dominique Reymond, André Marcon, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Valérie Bonneton, Catherine Mouchet, Alexandra London, Sophie Aubry, Mia Hansen-Løve, Victor Garrivier et Georges Wilson, septembre 2021.

#films #spirit #style #chapeau #Assayas #Chardonne #Berling #Beart #Huppert #Depardieu #Perrier #Reymond #Marcon #Lencquesaing #Bonneton #Mouchet #London #Aubrey #HansenLove #Garrivier #Wilson

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This Is Cinema Now: 21st Century Debuts begins on July 19 at Film at Lincoln Center with special 2-for-1 double feature pricing! Showtimes + tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/21stcenturydebuts This summer, we’re highlighting those directors who have made their feature debuts since the year 2000—and who have all but begun to define what a 21st-century cinema might look like. The past two decades have been a transformative period shaped by new technologies, transnational cinemas, and hyper-expanding media culture, and a different cinematic landscape has emerged, along with new directors who have built upon its ever-shifting terrain. Made up of a series of double features, pairing such exceptional debuts as Jordan Peele’s Get Out with Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Maren Ade’s The Forest for the Trees with Andrew Bujalski’s Funny Ha Ha, This Is Cinema Now: 21st Century Debuts celebrates our unpredictable cinematic present and recognizes the new class of filmmakers who will be defining the medium for years to come. Full schedule: July 19 & 23: Mysterious Object at Noon (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul) + Kaili Blues (dir. Bi Gan) July 19 & 27: Policeman (dir. Nadav Lapid) + 12:08 East of Bucharest (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu) July 20: The Forest for the Trees (dir. Maren Ade) + Funny Ha Ha (dir. Andrew Bujalski) July 20: Primer (dir. Shane Carruth) + Donnie Darko (dir. Richard Kelly) July 20: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (dir. Damien Chazelle) + Medicine for Melancholy (dir. Barry Jenkins) July 21 & 26: Oxhide (dir. Liu Jiayin) + La Cienaga (dir. Lucrecia Martel) July 21 & 31: O Fantasma (dir. João Pedro Rodrigues) + Neighboring Sounds (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho) July 23 & 30: Mundane History (dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong) + Nana (dir. Valérie Massadian) July 24 & 29: Unrelated (dir. Joanna Hogg) + Bungalow (dir. Ulrich Köhler) July 24 & July 29: La Libertad (dir. Lisandro Alonso) + Japon (dir. Carlos Reygadas) July 25 & 30: All Is Forgiven (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve) + Corpo Celeste (dir. Alice Rohrwacher) July 26: The Face You Deserve (dir. Miguel Gomes) + Frownland (dir. Ronald Bronstein) July 27: Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele) + The Babadook (dir. Jennifer Kent) July 28: Historias Extraordinarias (dir. Mariano Llinás) July 31: The Human Surge (dir. Eduardo Williams) + Drift (dir. Helena Wittmann) Organized by Dennis Lim, Florence Almozini, and Tyler Wilson. Film at Lincoln Center is dedicated to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema and enriching film culture. Film at Lincoln Center fulfills its mission through the programming of festivals, series, retrospectives, and new releases; the publication of Film Comment; the presentation of podcasts, talks, and special events; the creation and implementation of Artist Initiatives; and our Film in Education curriculum and screenings. Since its founding in 1969, this nonprofit organization has brought the celebration of American and international film to the world-renowned arts complex Lincoln Center, making the discussion and appreciation of cinema accessible to a broad audience, and ensuring that it remains an essential art form for years to come. More info: http://filmlinc.org/ Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=filmlincdotcom Like: http://facebook.com/filmlinc Follow: http://twitter.com/filmlinc

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