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best-green-character · 1 year

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Best Green Character Tournament

The first round of voting will begin at approximately 3:30 PM EST on Thursday, March 16, 2023. Each round will last 24 hours.

Our Lineup:

Round 1-A

Peridot from Steven Universe v. Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes

Roronoa Zoro from One Piece v. The Saint from Rain World

Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street v. Choromatsu Matsuno from Osomatsu-san

Gon Freecss from Hunter x Hunter v. Bruno Madrigal from Encanto

N Harmonia from Pokemon v. Phonegingi from Dialtown

Gir from Invader Zim v. Heather Duke from Heathers

The Onceler from The Lorax v. Mojo Jojo from The Powerpuff Girls

Bulbasaur from Pokemon v. Jolly Green Giants from Green Giant Commercials

Round 1-B

Midoriya "Deku" Izuku from My Hero Academia v. Steve from Blue's Clues

Shintaro Midorima from Kuroko's Basketball (Kuroko no Basuke) v. Disgust from Inside Out

Zim from Invader Zim v. Green Mage from Everhood

Creeper from Minecraft v. Slimer from Ghostbusters

Pidge Gunderson from Voltron: Legendary Defender v. Hinomori Shiho from Project SEKAI

Louie Duck from DuckTales v. Ferb Fletcher from Phineas and Ferb

Shego from Kim Possible v. Grovyle from Pokemon

Fiona from Shrek v. She-Hulk from Marvel Comics

Round 1-C

Link from The Legend of Zelda v. Raine Whispers from The Owl House

Green Lantern / Guy Gardener from DC Comics v. Calliope from Homestuck

The Green Knight from Arthurian Legend v. Edd from Eddsworld

Gumi "Megpoid" from Vocaloid v. Amity Blight from The Owl House

Nepeta Leijon from Homestuck v. Rantaro Amami from Danganronpa

Retasu "Lettuce" Midorikawa from Tokyo Mew Mew v. Green Goblin from Spider-Man

Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives v. Leafy from Battle for Dream Island

Shaggy from Scooby-Doo v. Princess Tiana from The Princess and the Frog

Round 1-D

Willow Park from The Owl House v. Legolas from The Lord of the Rings

Green Arrow / Oliver Queen from DC Comics v. Chara from Undertale

Yoda from Star Wars v. Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist

Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. v. Aisha (Princess Layla) from Winx Club

Lloyd Garmadon from LEGO Ninjago v. Rohan Kishibe from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Futaba Sakura from Persona 5 v. Grantaire from Les Miserables

Buttercup from The Powerpuff Girls v. Kanna Kizuchi from Your Turn to Die

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from TMNT v. Qi Rong from Heaven's Official Blessing / Tian Guan Ci Fu

Round 1-E

Luigi from Super Mario v. Duo from Duolingo

Marina Ida from Splatoon v. Vylad Ro'meave from Minecraft Diaries

The Grinch from How the Grinch Stole Christmas v. Nao Midorikawa / Cure March (April / Glitter Spring) from Smile Pretty Cure! / Glitter Force

Fern Mertens from Adventure Time v. Ben Tennyson from Ben 10

The Riddler from Batman v. Piccolo from Dragon Ball

Grogu (Baby Yoda) from The Mandalorian v. Basil from OMORI

Poison Ivy from DC Comics v. Midori / Sou Hiyori from Your Turn to Die

Alicent Hightower from House of the Dragon v. Mei Dragon / Long Xiaojiao from LEGO Monkie Kid

Round 1-F

Toph Beifong from Avatar: The Last Airbender v. Theodore from Alvin and the Chipmunks

Rock Lee from Naruto v. Dimple / Ekubo from Mob Psycho 100

Duck from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared v. Frog and Toad from Frog and Toad Are Friends

Yoshi from Super Mario v. Sprigatito from Pokemon

Beast Boy from Teen Titans v. Scourge the Hedgehog from Sonic

Loki from Marvel Comics v. Fjord from Critical Role

Kanaya Maryam from Homestuck v. Jet the Hawk from Sonic

Jake English from Homestuck v. Riz Gukgak from Dimension 20's Fantasy High

Round 1-G

Kermit the Frog from The Muppets v. Morro from LEGO Ninjago

Larry the Cucumber from VeggieTales v. Brian Yu from Monster Prom

Green M&M from M&Ms v. D'Vana Tendi from Star Trek: Lower Decks

Green from Animation vs. Animator v. Beetlejuice from Beetlejuice

Jade Harley from Homestuck v. Plankton from Spongebob

Hulk from Marvel Comics v. Green Ranger / Tommy Oliver from Power Rangers

Double Trouble from She-Ra: Princess of Power v. Madame Vastra from Doctor Who

Snufkin from The Moomins v. Netzach from Lobotomy Corporation

Round 1-H

Marcy Wu from Amphibia v. Vera Oberlin from Monster Prom

Tinker Bell from Peter Pan v. Danny Phantom from Danny Phantom

Ralsei from Deltarune v. The Creature (Frankenstein's Monster) from Frankenstein

Tsuyu Asui / Froppy from My Hero Academia v. Surge the Tenrec from Sonic

Shrek from Shrek v. Sailor Neptune from Sailor Moon

Gumby from Gumby v. Gamora from Guardians of the Galaxy

Elphaba Thropp from Wicked v. Martian Manhunter / J'onn J'onzz from DC Comics

Marie Cuttlefish from Splatoon v. Rayquaza from Pokemon

#best green character tournament #long post #tumblr competition #tumblr polls #tournament #green

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disabled-characters-showdown · 11 months

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Characters in the Disabled Characters Showdown

Notes:

1.) Characters are listed below the cut, because there’s a ridiculous amount of them. Depending, some of the characters may not be in the showdown, however, if you submit one it will probably be used

2.) We are still looking to have more characters submitted and will update this page accordingly. At this point we are looking at doing a 128 person showdown because we’re extra like that. We’ll see if that actually happens but it seems probable. Characters can be submitted in the notes of this post or in an ask.

3.) If you want to submit propaganda about any of these characters feel free to because otherwise you will get things like this: “Haven’t the faintest clue who this is, so you get no context.” You can also submit character images because most of them will be horrible due to us just pulling most of them from the fandom page.

4.) If you have any issues about any characters feel free to shoot us an ask. That being said, this poll isn’t really about who is the best representation. See more details here. If you are wondering why a character is on the list feel free to ask and we’ll tell you but we’re not gonna put on reasoning for all of the characters.

5.) Characters can be entered until June 27, with the showdown kicking off a couple of days later.

6.) We tried our best with some of the names, but also are not familiar with some of the characters on this list so if there’s any issues there please let us know.

Marvel:

Clint Barton

Maya Lopez

Makkari

Professor X

Nick Fury

Bucky Barnes

Madame Web

Stick

James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes

Daniel Sousa

Nebula

Jeri Hogarth

Jessica Jones

Phil Coulson

DC:

Barbara Gordon

Cyborg

Slade Wilson/Deathstroke

Jericho

Destiny of the Endless

Freddy Freeman

Booster Gold

Roy Harper- Young Justice

Animes/K-Dramas:

Jin Bu-yeon- Alchemy of Souls

Edward Elric- Fullmetal Alchemist

Might Guy- Naruto

Hatori Sohma- Fruits Basket

Vash the Stampede- Trigun

Yang Xiao Long- RWBY

Neoplitan- RWBY

Nunnally vi Britannia- Code Geass

Jean-Pierre Polnareff- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Ali Abdul- Squid Game

Naruto Uzumaki- Naruto

Sasuke Uchiha- Naruto

Yuuri Katsuki- Yuri!!! On Ice

Star Wars/Trek/Aliens:

Geordi La Forge- Star Trek: The Next Generation

Luke Skywalker- Star Wars

Anakin Skywalker- Star Wars

Kanan Jarrus- Star Wars

Shiro- Voltron

Keyla Detmer- Star Trek: Discovery

Alex Manes- Roswell, New Mexico

Commander Wolffe- Star Wars

Chirrut Îmwe- Star Wars

River Tam- Firefly

Saw Gerrera- Star Wars

Wrecker- Star Wars

Visas Marr- Star Wars Legends

Darth Traya/Kreia- Star Wars Legends

Fennec Shand- Star Wars

Tahl- Star Wars Legends

Darth Maul- Star Wars

Echo- Star Wars

Breha Organa- Star Wars

Non-Animated TV Shows:

Connie- The Walking Dead

Eileen Leahy- Supernatural

Joel Miller- The Last of Us

Christopher Diaz- 9-1-1

Aaron- The Walking Dead

Ben Scott- Yellowjackets

Fei- The Umbrella Academy

Ian Gallagher- Shameless

Sara Eriksson- Young Royals

Mateo Chavez- 9-1-1 Lone Star

Lucius Spriggs- Our Flag Means Death

John Silver- Black Sails

Prince Wilhelm- Young Royals

Theo Dimas- Only Murders in the Building

Books:

Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle

Hearthstone- Magnus Chase

Dezi- The Sunbearer Trials

Katniss Everdeen- The Hunger Games

Lord Blackheart- Nimona

Genya Safin- Shadow and Bone

Peeta Melark- The Hunger Games

Kaz Brekker- Six of Crows

Oscar Silva- Renegades

Erik- The Teadragon Society

Cinder- The Lunar Chronicles

Wu Zetian- Iron Widow

Wylan Van Eck- Six of Crows

Nova Huang- Mooncakes

Percy Newton- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Jack Wolcott- Wayward Children

Ty Blackthorn- City of Heavenly Fire

Scarlet Benoit- The Lunar Chronicles

Carswell Thorne- The Lunar Chronicles

Maedhros- The Silmarillion

Beren- The Silmarillion

Frodo Baggins- Lord of the Rings

Ettiene- The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Alex Claremont-Diaz- Red, White & Royal Blue

Jack Zimmerman- Check Please!

Charlie Spring- Heartstopper

Movies:

Regan Abbott- A Quiet Place

Jia Andrews- Godzilla vs. Kong

Carl- Up

Hiccup- How To Train Your Dragon

Gobber- How To Train Your Dragon

Toothless- How To Train Your Dragon

Hermann Gottlieb- Pacific Rim

Massimo Marcovaldo- Luca

Imperator Furiosa- Mad Max: Fury Road

Drago Bludvist- How To Train Your Dragon 2

Animated TV Shows:

Amaya- The Dragon Prince

Toph Beifong- Avatar The Last Airbender

Teo- Avatar The Last Airbender

Eda Clawthorne- The Owl House

Entrapta- She-Ra

Finn Mertens- Adventure Time

Jewelstar- She-Ra

Villads- The Dragon Prince

Marcy Wu- Amphibia

Mr. Poolcheck- Gravity Falls

Principal Bump- The Owl House

Captain ‘Grime’ Grimothy- Amphibia

Florabel- Kipo: Age of the Wonderbeasts

Ida- Kipo: Age of the Wonderbeasts

Bev- Kipo: Age of the Wonderbeasts

Tallstar- She-Ra

Ming-Hua- Avatar Legend of Korra

Sol Regem- The Dragon Prince

Combustion Man- Avatar The Last Airbender

Norma- Dead End Paranormal Park

Other Stuff:

Janice Palmer- Welcome to Night Vale

Nessarose Thropp- Wicked

Kotallo- Horizon Forbidden West

Melanie King- The Magnus Archives

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mercurygray · 1 year

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i’d love to see what you would do with ‘rosy’ + dick and joan + the ballet au!!! (i continue to be obsessed with the ballet au)

After several hours, the whole situation was really starting to get on his nerves.

"So, is anyone going to tell them?"

Joan looked over at him from the relative darkness beside a rack of costumes, the two of them looking at the photo set in front of them. "Tell them what?"

Dick gestured to the set. "That Rites of Spring isn't anything like this?"

The scene in the studio here was an 18th century confection of columns and flowers and actors in floral prints - the idea of an emerging 'spring' of talent, just starting to come into their own. (It really was something of a Hollywood who's who - two of the people in the room had already been nominated for Oscars, one had a play opening on Broadway in the coming months, and everyone seemed to be swapping stories from Cannes.)

Dick and Joan were really here to set-dress, wearing costumes that might have come from a very classically staged…something, Dick in more of the style of a prince and Joan the humble milk-maid. Stravinsky's ballet, in contrast, was a riot of sound and sharp angles, meant to evoke a primal past - something any student of the art would have known, if they'd bothered to do the reading.

"Dick, I'm not going to stand between the art director for a major magazine and a technicality," Joan said, practical to her bones. "We are being paid quite a lot of money to stand here and look pretty. It's good press for the company and the new season - and new audience exposure."

The word 'exposure' made Dick almost want to shiver - one of those new buzzwords that Tab (in his new tech-saavy Instagram fame) was always throwing around, like CTR and organic engagement and market share. Joan paid more attention to those things, a side effect of having an uncle who sat on the board and cared about these things like 'a new generation of viewers.' Isn't it enough any more to just make good art?

But he already knew it wasn't. This is the new generation of viewers - the people searching relentlessly for their next hit of pretty, streaming something from their couch.

"It's just all so…fake and…" he looked around, flicking his fingers at a nearby bouquet, "Rosy."

Joan's eyeroll was immense. "Dick, ballet is fake and rosy. I think anyone could argue any creative performance can be fake and rosy. So what is it really that's bothering you, hmm?"

Well, when she put it like that, how could he refuse? "Mr. Hollywood over there can't stop staring at you."

Mr. Hollywood - not his real name, of course, but it summed him up well - was an up and coming actor, one of several prized show horses being promoted in this photospread. (While Dick was in what amounted to full ballet court dress, the actor was lounging in an undone blue frock coat to show off washboard abs, his cropped hair more 21st century than 18th, Men's Health rather than Madame de Montespan. His attitude in the chair had every suggestion that in any century he could, as the kids were saying these days, 'get it.')

A smile emerged. "Oh, so Mr. Winters is jealous."

"…maybe."

Joan laughed. "Well, you needn't be. He asked for my number already. I told him I was very taken by the hot redhead in tights. I think now he's staring at you and wondering how to get an ass that looks like yours."

"Three hours of daily pointe practice. It's probably not macho enough for him."

"Let's do a lift later and show him how macho it is, then." She leaned over, something of the stage coquette in her smile and the tilt of her hand towards his shoulder, clearly pantomining the telling of a secret. "I don't think he could get it up that high."

It was Dick's turn now to stare. "Joanie Warren, are you making dirty jokes?"

In that shepherdess outfit she was the picture of rosy naiveté, but the smile she gave him was anything but fake. "Anything to make you smile."

#i have written a thing #mercurygraypresents #ballet au #joan warren

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onewomancitadel · 2 years

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A Jaune post-ish

This is not the Knightfall post I was thinking of making... but I was specifically thinking about Jaune, and his emotional journey, and the things I haven't really posted about him.

If you superficially read his character arc you would see it as: Cinder killed Pyrrha and took Pyrrha from Jaune, and Cinder is single-handedly responsible for his loneliness. I don't think this holds up to scrutiny, because what's really dividing the partnership before that is the Maiden candidacy altogether:

and the final decision Pyrrha makes to push him away and stuff him in the tin can. It's a really fascinating reversal: Pyrrha's forced into the Maiden meat puppet machine - coffinlike, dead, bad - and Jaune's stuffed into the tin can weapon rocket against his will, taken aback, and he can't even help Pyrrha. He couldn't help her before, and he especially cannot now.

It completely breaks him. I think this was one of the first scenes I was really like ohhhh I LOVE you?

So... Cinder's ultimately responsible for the Fall of Beacon and Pyrrha represents that, and Pyrrha's the death of childhood, and of course he's angry at Cinder about it, that's why they're connected. But he spends time over V4-5 being angry at Qrow, too, and Ozpin, and even into V6...

Like, V5 doesn't really resolve everything, in V6 it really begins to unravel and then he's reminded why Pyrrha did what she did, which was out of his control, he couldn't help her, but it was her choice. So that was the apparent end of his emotional arc, done and Dusted. Jaune knows what he's meant for now, he just has to keep going - for what, well, that's less clear. Going forward is not the same as knowing where you're going. But he seems fine and settled, right? So then why the fuck is he framed as being alone? What are they trying to do here? His character arc resolved with Pyrrha.

Everybody else has someone. I mean, there's this shot of team JNR supporting each other after Pyrrha's passing (and the dialogue over this is working doubletime emotionally :()...

but Ren and Nora have Ren and Nora, and with recent developments, Nora has Emerald and Ren is opening up to other people. Ruby has Yang, her sister, and Oscar - who helped her with Ironwood, not Jaune - and of course she's got her partner, Weiss. Yang and Blake have each other. So who does Jaune have?

Like, his story isn't over. He mercy-killed Penny. But he's always... alone.

He lets Ren and Nora have their moment. When does Jaune get his moment? Is this really it?

Like, cool, he's the cutesy comic relief, but he's responsible for things in the story which suggest he's got more to do. Without Penny, I would've been very cynical and just assumed they didn't know what to do with him, but Pyrrha's death in the story serves manifold thematic purposes (Ozma parallels!!), it wasn't there just to give him and the others something to do. There's got to be more to this, at some point, somehow, especially relating to creating a more complex context for character death and kills in the story, like Blake and Yang with Adam, and Raven... maybe with Summer, and the previous Spring Maiden. Or someone else altogether.

But it's literally just like, Jaune who's alone in the story. Even Weiss has her family throughout the Atlas arc, her sister and her brother and her mother - she has major relationships outside of Ruby, her partner. But it seems like everybody else pairs up neatly, romantically and platonically, so what the fuck is going on with him?

It's funny, because I read someone else's arc the same way.

Nobody's really in it for her and her alone, either because she doesn't let them or they can't or won't be. Madame enslaved her, Rhodes betrayed her, Salem enslaved her, Mercury and Emerald are there for the compensation - and she continued the abusive cycle with them, Raven's a Maiden and her enemy, Penny's her enemy and is trying to reason her own beliefs, Neo's in it for the deal of killing Ruby, Watts is horrible and does not care about Cinder one bit, Tyrian doesn't care either and mocks her, Hazel cares about Emerald and Mercury, who is Cinder's partner?

Why are these two both alone? Why were both of them set up not to have anybody who's theirs?

I guess that's why they interest me. Because both of their character arcs are going somewhere, and it's going to fucking surprise both of them.

I think the narrative consequences of Pyrrha's death aren't just about Cinder isolating Jaune - really, the whole narrative isolating Jaune, the entire Ozlem and Huntsman academy structure against them - I think the disillusionment is meant to teach him something and more importantly I think Cinder's the opportunity for him not to be alone and be able to help and do something and not be turned away and fix the Ozlem cycle, because I think he's set up for it, and these are all the moving parts. He could help a Fall Maiden, just not the one he expected. He could love a Fall Maiden, just not the one he expected.

It's just absurd how much it makes sense, it's beautiful.

#knightfall #they're never coming back. but there's someone who still could #jaune arc sadsack tag

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bowieberlinstateofmind · 2 years

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Bowie was a voracious reader. In 2013, he posted a list of his top 100 favorite reads on his Facebook page.

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse Room At The Top by John Braine On Having No Head by Douglass Harding Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess City Of Night by John Rechy The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Iliad by Homer As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall David Bomberg by Richard Cork Blast by Wyndham Lewis Passing by Nella Larson Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd The Divided Self by R. D. Laing The Stranger by Albert Camus Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Herzog by Saul Bellow Puckoon by Spike Milligan Black Boy by Richard Wright The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot McTeague by Frank Norris Money by Martin Amis The Outsider by Colin Wilson Strange People by Frank Edwards English Journey by J.B. Priestley A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West 1984 by George Orwell The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn Mystery Train by Greil Marcus Beano (comic, ’50s) Raw (comic, ’80s) White Noise by Don DeLillo Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky The Street by Ann Petry Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr. A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard The Bridge by Hart Crane All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence Teenage by Jon Savage Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Viz (comic, early ’80s) Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s) Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont On The Road by Jack Kerouac Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa Inferno by Dante Alighieri A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno The Insult by Rupert Thomson In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

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hollywoodlady · 3 years

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David Bowie’s 100 Favourite Books:

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

Room At The Top by John Braine

On Having No Head by Douglass Harding

Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Of Night by John Rechy

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Iliad by Homer

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell

Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

David Bomberg by Richard Cork

Blast by Wyndham Lewis

Passing by Nella Larson

Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto

The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

The Divided Self by R. D. Laing

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman

The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter

The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

Black Boy by Richard Wright

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler

The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot

McTeague by Frank Norris

Money by Martin Amis

The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Strange People by Frank Edwards

English Journey by J.B. Priestley

A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West

1984 by George Orwell

The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

Beano (comic, )

Raw (comic, ’80s)

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick

Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage

Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley

The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillette

Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky

The Street by Ann Petry

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.

A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz

The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

The Bridge by Hart Crane

All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey

Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich

Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Lady Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Teenage by Jon Savage

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Viz (comic, ’80s)

Private Eye (satirical magazine, – ’80s)

Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara

The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler

Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno

The Insult by Rupert Thomson

In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan

A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes

Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

#David Bowie #by lady hollywood

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raeynbowboi · 5 years

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Dating Disney: Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast features my favorite love story and my favorite Disney Princess, so it holds a very special spot in my heart. So, it’s worth looking into the film to decide when the Movie is supposed to be set.

During the opening musical number “Belle”, Belle is telling the Baker about the book she’s been reading. She’s clearly describing Jack and the Beanstalk, the earliest version being the tale of “Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean” in 1734. But she also deliberately mentions an ogre, not a giant. Near as I could find, the only version with an ogre was written by Joseph Jacobs in 1890, making Belle nearly contemporary to modernity. Belle’s excitement over the book is likely a sign that this is a new story.

During the same musical number, we see a sign depicting a tobacco pipe, but unlike with the Calabash pipe from the Little Mermaid movie. I could place it to possibly be a Billiard type, but the exact era of creation escapes me. However, tobacco pipes have been around as long as Tobacco has been introduced to European trade, starting in the 16th century.

The history of colored printing goes as far back as the 16th century, and there are illustrations from the early 1700s with an impressive variety of color that help establish a stronger time period. The book also shows the words Le Prince Charmant or Prince Charming. Prince Charming started being used in 1697 in Charles Perrault’s version of Sleeping Beauty, although there, Prince Charming was not a name. Rather, Perrault stated that the Prince was charmed by her words. The first story to use Prince Charming as a name is the Tale of Pretty Goldilocks. It was written at some point in the 17th Century by Madame d’Aulnoy, but in her version the hero was named Avenant. It wasn’t until 1889 when Andrew Lang retold the story that Avenant was dubbed as Charming. One year later in 1890, Oscar Wilde used the term “Prince Charming” sarcastically in his novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, meaning that the term had gotten its more modern meaning by this point in time.

Gaston’s musket is a Blunderbuss, which was invented in the early 1600′s and remained popular through the 18th century before falling out of fashion in the middle of the 19th century. However, considering Belle states that this is a backwards town and Gaston is an old-fashioned, Primeval man, it’s possible he’s using a largely outdated weapon.

While there are no street lamps in the city, we can see in the background lanterns on the sides of buildings, which might allude to the movie taking place before the invention of gas lamps. However, gas lamps were invented in 1809, and if the version of Jack and the Beanstalk is from 1890, then by all accounts the town should have gas lamps. What this amounting evidence is leading me to believe is that the film is directly following the plot of the original fairy tale.

In the story, Beauty’s father is a merchant who loses his fortune due to a storm destroying his cargo. They’re forced to live on a farm until the merchant stumbles upon the Beast’s castle and kick starts the plot. In the opening song, Belle says “every morning’s just the same, since the morning that we came, to this poor, provincial town.” This could mean that she grew up in a much more modern, urban, and progressive town. Possibly even Paris. But that after Maurice suffered severe financial trouble, he was forced to move them to the small, backwards town that was practically living an entire century behind the rest of France, which is why she’s so bored and unimpressed by the little town. It helps explain why she’s so eager to want to get out of this town and see the world. She wants to be part of the modern world again.

Interestingly, I can support this theory with background information. According to some of my research, Belle’s village was based on the little town of Riquewihr, France, which still looks like it did in the 16th century to this day. So the idea that Belle’s little village lacks so many modern elements could be a nod to the architecture of this sleepy French village that has remained largely untouched by the march of time. Hence why it looks more like something out of the 1700s despite the many elements from the 1800s being present.

During the song “Be Our Guest”, Lumiere dances with a match stick. Match sticks were invented in 1805. Assuming the film still takes place in the 1890s, this would be concurrent with the other evidence we’ve seen thus far. Later in the same song, the silverware makes an Eiffel tower, which was constructed in 1889. Since Jack and the Beanstalk was written after that, it still fits within the suspected time frame.

During the climax of the battle, Cogsworth is wearing military garments reflective of Napoleonic styles. Napoleon was coronated in 1804 until 1814, had a brief return to power in 1815, and eventually died in 1821. So this is also congruent to the established time period.

In the Youtube Video “Fashion Expert Fact Checks Belle from Beauty and the Beast’s Costumes” by Glamour, April Calahan, a Fashion Historian from the Fashion Institute of Technology directly noted that Belle’s yellow gown lacks the shape of a proper 18th century dress, and more closely resembles the shape of 19th century dresses, fitting into the evidence that’s been mounting in support of a late 19th century setting.

As a part of his primary costume, Lefou wears a waistcoat and tailcoats, which came into vogue in the 1800s, namely from the 1840s through the 1850s.

But if the film is set in the 1800s, how can the Beast still be a prince after the French Revolution? Well something worth noting is that when he finds out that Belle isn’t coming to dinner, the Beast storms through the halls to her room as Cogsworth calls after him as “Your Eminence” and “Your Grace”. The address of “Your Eminence” is reserved for Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, and is an ecclesiastical style of address. “Your Grace” is noticeably an English style of address, but it’s being used by Cogsworth who is British, so I can chalk that up to just part of his culture. Although it was used for British monarchs, it fell out of use during the reign of King Henry VIII (1509-1547) and after that, the use of “Your Grace” became used to address archbishops and non-royal Dukes and Duchesses. Now clearly the Beast is not a cardinal or a bishop, especially if he is looking for the love of a woman to make him human, since it’s forbidden for Catholic priests to marry. So clearly that is not what is meant here. But the other answer actually does hold a bit of weight. Beast’s father was in fact, a Duke. So how is the Beast a prince? He’s not. Not entirely. See, there’s more than one kind of Prince in French nobility. There’s a Prince du Sang, or a Prince by Blood. Effectively, the Crown Prince, the sons of ruling monarchs. But the title is also given to lords in charge of a Principality, one of the smallest territorial sizes. The Beast’s principality probably only extends to having power over the little unnamed village. And with it being after the revolution, Beast might not even have the proper use of his title anymore. He’s effectively a rich kid in a fancy house with no real authority or power. He’s just old money from a by-gone era of human history. But if Beast’s address of “Your Grace” is accurate, that would mean that he’s a non-royal Duke, meaning he would not likely have been executed during the Revolution, as his family would have essentially been governors or senators than actual monarchs. They just had jurisdiction over a small piece of the Kingdom of France and reported back to and obeyed the orders of their King. Thus, he would not have been important enough to be killed or chased out of power by the townsfolk.

CONCLUSION

The movie is set between the late autumn and early-to-mid winter of 1890. Although the snow is gone when Belle returns to the village, the trees are still bare, signaling that it may just be unseasonably warm, though it could be the very early spring of 1891 between the receding of the snow and the blossoming of new spring foliage. Between the books, clothing, and references made, my conclusion is that Belle is a very modern girl living in a backwards little town stuck in the past, thus why a village in 1890 looks so completely lacking in modern technology despite the era. The Prince is nothing more than a fancy title as the son of a Duke, and he likely has very little if any actual government authority. Essentially, Belle married into wealth, not power, and will never be a proper queen, and I’m not sure if the wife of a lord ruling a principality is a princess or not, but I suspect the answer is no. Making Belle, like Mulan, a Disney Princess who did not marry royalty, was not born royalty, and thus, cannot be called a Disney Princess. She’s definitely a noblewoman, but she’s not royal by any means.

SETTING: Riquewihr, France

KINGDOM: The French Republic (France)

YEAR: Autumn, 1890 - Spring, 1891

PERIOD: The Third Republic (1870-1940)

LANGUAGE: French

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RWBY HPTR AU: Timeline

More of my embarrassingly self-indulgent AU. It tackles the timeline of events happening before the show starts. For those for who it's the first time here: most of the antagonists in the show are students at Beacon here, hence why the 63 A.G.W. point is probably a bit confusing, as well as the presence of many, many OCs. Warning: Very Ozpin-centric, especially at the beginning, because I'm insane and constructed a whole backstory for this man. If you want me to add something to the timeline, or have questions about the AU, just ask. ^^

(REFERENCE: A.G.W. stands for After Great War.)

34 A.G.W.: Ozborn Pinhead is born to con-artists living in the mountains of Vale.

45 A.G.W.: King Ozymandias Valenoa dies. On a side-note, Aura Lycoris is born.

46 A.G.W.: Ozymandias/Ozma reincarnates into Ozborn the moment he hits puberty. A few months later, Ozborn runs away from home to join a Collibet Monastery.

(REFERENCE: Collibet is branch of religion in the world of Remnant. It's followers' main belief is that life is to be enjoyed to it's fullest, and they have to help people enjoy it. Their worship is mainly centered on the God of Light.)

51 A.G.W.: Ozborn decides to enroll in Beacon for multiple reasons. He's placed in Team DSOO with Cadmium Duat, Zephyr Olympia, and Jade Sheng. He will become very close to Jade, almost like siblings. She's the one who coins the Ozpin nickname.

52 A.G.W.: Vytal festival happens in Haven. Ozborn ends up being finalist instead of his teammate through circumstances that went against his will, and ends up befriending fellow finalist from Shade Theodore Yellowstone, as well as a Faunus competitor from Haven called Leonardo Lionheart. Theodore is the winner.

53 A.G.W.: During a training mission that brought them to Solitas, Team DSOO ends up working with James Ironwood. Even if difficult to work with, Ozborn forms a tentative friendship with him, which they'll maintain through CCT communications. Ozborn also accidently ends up mentoring a first year named Glynda Goodwitch.

54 A.G.W.: Team STRQ enrolls in Beacon. Ozborn ends up being their mentor (intentionally this time) through a mentorship program at Beacon. Summer Rose is the winner of the Vytal Festival, having beaten Ironwood. After warning them that the truth isn't pretty, Ozborn comes clean about his cycle of reincarnation to Jade, STRQ, Glynda, Theodore, Lionheart and Ironwood, as well as Salem and her immortality. The only one unwilling to get involved is Taiyang Xiao Long, who can see that Ozborn absolutely does not want to be in this situation, thinks he's in way over his head and probably needs to take some distance from Huntsman business. Qrow and Raven are given their bird powers.

55 A.G.W.: Having taken Taiyang's opinion on the situation to heart, Ozborn decides to take a step back and go back in the Monastery he grew up in in order to become a Priest. Jade joins him in a show of support.

57 A.G.W.: Ozborn gets ordained, and he and Jade promptly go on a pilgrimage together with one very clear objective in mind: fuck Salem over. They find her at the end of the year, successfully lie to Salem about Ozborn's identity and fool her into thinking they want to join her side. On a side note, Gretchen Reinhart, Hazel Reinhart and Winter Schnee are all born.

58 A.G.W.: After getting out of Salem the secret to her immortality and the location of the God of Light's pool/former residence, Ozborn and Jade run away in the night in order for Ozborn to get similar immortality. Salem finds out about the betrayal, successfully kills Jade before Ozborn can go in the pool, and permanently cripples him with a magical attack that destroys his leg in a way that the pool's magic isn't able to completely fix. Ozborn still obtains immortality, permanently changing the game. He also sheds away the identity of Ozborn Pinhead, and renames himself after Jade's nickname for him.

59 A.G.W.: Ozpin comes back, and marries Taiyang, Raven Branwen and Summer Rose together. He also enrolls in Beacon as the Myth & Religion teacher.

60 A.G.W.: Desperate to get back at Ozpin after such an humiliating defeat, Salem takes a teenage Aura Lycoris under her wing.

62 A.G.W.: Aura starts the deep-undercover operation of gaining Ozpin's trust, starting by enrolling into Beacon.

63 A.G.W.: Yang Xiao Long, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladona, Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren, Arthur Watts, Tyrian Callows, Cinder Fall, Mercury Black, Emerald Sustrai, Roman Brunswick, Trivia Vanille, Ochre Wedjat, Raoul Arsenic, Wilhemia Key and Lys Rosenbed are all born. On a side-note, Ozpin and Qrow start a tentative romantic relationship at the end of the year.

65 A.G.W.: Ruby Rose is born.

66 A.G.W.: Aura graduates, and goes on a small pause in her mission in order to clean up some loose ends on Salem's part.

67 A.G.W.: Summer dies on a mission gone wrong (Unless/until we get something specific, Aura's partially responsible in my AU). Overwhelmed and disillusioned by the demise of the woman she loved, Raven abandons the rest of her family and goes back to the Branwen tribe. Both Taiyang and Qrow are left broken by this series of events, and Qrow ends up falling to alcoholism, leaving Ozpin to pick up the broken pieces of the inner circle. On a side note, both Oscar Pine and Whitley Schnee are born.

68 A.G.W.: Following a convoluted series of events that leaves Oscar orphaned for a total of maybe an hour before Ozpin adopts him, the wizard finally starts getting his shit back together, and starts formulating a plan to get back on his feet properly. On a side-note, Marcus Black steals his son's- Mercury- Semblance.

69 A.G.W.: Ozpin successfully becomes Beacon's headmaster, and promptly pulls strings to put Theodore, Lionheart and Ironwood in the same positions in their respective kingdoms. He also makes Glynda into his successor to the position. Meanwhile, Aura joins his staff as the Study Hall teacher/supervisor. Kuroyuri is destroyed by the Nuckelavee, orphaning Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie.

72 A.G.W.: Mountain Glenn is destroyed. Ozpin is able to save a few people at the last minute, including the Reinhart twins, thus inspiring Gretchen to become a Huntress. On a side note, James Ironwood becomes General, and thus Atlas' Chief of Armies, and gains a second seat on the Atlesian Council. The rest of the inner circle has mixed feelings about this, mostly negative.

73 A.G.W.: After a very long time of frustration at the Atlesian Council, Hagatha Greene snaps after a combination of her project being denied in favor of Pietro's, and being forced to work with an actual child (10 years old Arthur Watts). She's approached by Salem via Aura, and fakes her death. On a side note, the Brunswick farm is invaded by Apathy, forcing Roman to run away. He'll later stow himself away to Vale and rename himself Torchwick in order to cut ties with his past.

74 A.G.W.: Lionheart is forced to inform the Spring Maiden about what Salem can do. Overwhelmed, she runs away to the Branwen tribe. Lionheart himself latter approached by Greene, who more-or-less blackmails him into joining Salem. He calls Ozpin to know what he's supposed to do, and ends up becoming a double-agent. On a side-note, Gretchen signs up for Beacon, and Winter for Atlas in her first step to distance herself from her family.

76 A.G.W.: Gretchen is severely wounded on a training mission. Since her body was never found, it was assumed she died. Despite knowing that he'd probably be attacked on sight- and he was- Ozpin is able to provide Hazel with a bit of peace concerning the demise of his sister. Unknown to the both of them, Gretchen was actually found by Salem's circle and brought to her in order to get a new underling. On a side-note, the Spring Maiden dies and passes the power to Raven.

77 A.G.W.: Cinder and Arthur meet off-handedly while running away from Atlas for different reasons (Cinder is running from the Madame, Arthur from the military) due to sneaking on the same cargo ship. They separate after. Cinder ends up staying in Mistral, while Arthur wanders around Anima and ends up meeting Tyrian, who's part of a circus. Tyrian ends up following Arthur, who intends on getting to Vale as fast as possible. The two end up becoming fast friends after some initial frostiness. Trivia also runs away from home and meets Roman, and renames herself Neopolitan after the imaginary friend she had in her childhood.

78 A.G.W.: Cinder meets Emerald in the streets of Mistral, and the two bond over their dreams of becoming Huntresses. After Cinders remembers something Arthur told her about Beacon having a program for students like them, the two girls set off for Beacon.

79 A.G.W.: Marcus is hired to assassinate Ozpin, and fails in this task. Some time after, Cinder and Emerald, who recently got to Vale, cross path with Mercury, who's running away from his abusive father after a savage fight with him due to the man cutting off his legs. Marcus joins Salem after.

(AMBIGUOUS TIME PERIOD: Somewhere in the 70s, Aura found and started forming all the members of Team ORKL. I don't have a precise time period, but for those curious, the order she found them in was: Raoul, Lys, Ochre and Whilemia.)

80 A.G.W.: The story starts.

#rwby #rwby au #hptr au #timeline #worldbuilding #i am not tagging all the characters in this.#my au is basically half 'what if the villains were friends with the heroes' and half #salem: there is nothing ozma can do that I won't see coming #ozpin: VIBE CHECK *becomes immortal*

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Masked Omens: Week Six

[Image Description: Image 1 - A simple rendition of the Masked Singer UK logo, a golden mask with colourful fragments flying off of it. The mask has a golden halo and a golden devil tail protruding from either side. Below, gold text reads ‘Masked Omens’.

Image 2 - A page from the Entertainment section of the Capital Herald, dated Saturday, 30th January 2021. Full image description and transcript below cut. End ID.]

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The Capital Herald - Saturday 30th January, 2021 Entertainment, page 13

Top story (continued from facing page): -talk filming, fans and family with 'Three Card Monte' star -finished, and hotly tipped for several major awards come the season, what does Dame Angela have in the pipeline? She's tight-lipped, but the question makes her smile. “Naturally I don't want to give too much away – an actress must maintain some mystery lest the camera fall out of love with her – but I can tell you I have several options in mind, and some of them are very exciting.” But is it a question of which project to take on, or which to take on first? “Well, of course, there are no guarantees, but... yes, I imagine some of them will wait.” It's an unusual level of power for an actor to wield, but at this stage in her career Dame Angela is more than entitled to wield it. How does she feel about winning the showbiz game so spectacularly? “Oh, I feel as though I've been playing a game of my own devising, to which even I don't know the rules.” She laughs. “No, but really, I don't think I've ever thought of it as playing a game. I go up for the parts I think are interesting or challenging, and I've been fortunate enough to get them more often than not. Then, when the part is finished, I move on to the next thing I want to do. There's no strategy, not really, not on my part. Naturally, my agent might tell you something very different!” Having the right agent can certainly be the key to success in the entertainment industry, and Dame Angela has been with Derek Mette, of MetteTalent, for many years now.“More than I care to admit,” she tells me with a laugh, “Derek has been with me since the beginning, really. We're old friends, at this point – our families exchange Christmas cards every year.” Family can be a challenge for someone who's trying to keep the momentum of their career going, and Dame Angela surprised the world when she took a year out of acting to give birth to her son, Anthony.“Yes, at that time it simply wasn't done; one could have a career, or one could have a family. Especially since I was very much on my own with it all. But I was able to get back in front of the cameras quite quickly, and I wouldn't change things for the world. Becoming a mother made me a better actress, I think, because it opened up that whole range of experiences. The highs and the lows of childrearing.” In fact, Dame Angela starred alongside young Anthony in A is for Apple when he was only eight months old. He briefly followed in her footsteps after leaving school, and seemed set for similar levels of industry acclaim. But it all came to a devastating halt when he developed an addiction that led to him being discovered unconscious in his trailer on the set of The Grasswater Affair. He'd overdosed. “I don't like to talk about it,” Dame Angela says, her mouth downturned. “I found it very hard. But now, of course, he's been in recovery for many years, and he does his little plays all around the country. It's behind us, and I'd like it to stay that way.” A change of subject, then; what does she make of the rumours that she is currently performing as a costumed character on The Masked Singer UK? “On- I'm sorry, what's that?” I show her a clip on my phone. “Good heavens, no.” But isn't that exactly what she'd say if it was her? “Well, I don't know. I'd never even seen it until just now. But it all seems a little childish for my taste. I'm far too committed to my art to do light entertainment.” Time, it seems, will tell. But if Dame Angela is indeed a participant in The Masked Singer, she hides it well.There’s time for one last question, so I try to make it a good one. What, I ask, does Dame Angela consider her proudest achievement to date? “Oh, that’s a difficult question. I simply couldn’t choose... Naturally, becoming a Dame was a great honour, and not one I expected at all, which made it all the more precious. But then, the first time I won an Oscar was a real moment of pride, and one that’s never soured with time. And, of course, every award and every round of applause is a moment of pride for any actor; it means I’ve done the job, and done it well, and that it has been appreciated by the audience in front of me. What more can any actress ask for?” MARY HODGES Dame Angela Crowley’s latest film, Three Card Monte, is in cinemas from the 12th of February.

Centre right: OWAS to host ‘magic’ event Literary society’s next gala theme announced The Oscar Wilde Appreciation Society has announced the theme for its spring social event, which is to be inspired by all things magical. Famed far beyond its actual membership for its lavish balls and banquets, the society has in the past held events held together by motifs such as 'Luck', which took place in a casino, 'Snow', which included a trip to a ski slope, and 'Flight', during which all participants had the opportunity to glide above the dancers on wires. This time, the theme is 'Magic', and while details are still being kept tightly under wraps, it seems fairly certain that Aziraphale Fell, London's most celebrated stage magician and a long-time member of the Oscar Wilde Appreciation Society, will be performing at the event. When the society throws open its doors each season, it's quite possible to go all night without seeing a single regular member of the club. While the organising committee is out in full force, soliciting donations from the wealthy patrons who attend the parties, and the society president stands up to make a toast at the beginning of dinner, it's largely outsiders who descend upon the Oscar Wilde Appreciation Society's chosen venue. In fact, the scale and opulence of these events has led some to speculate that OWAS is not a literary appreciation society at all, but rather a shadowy networking opportunity for the rich and powerful. Indeed, at the 'Flight' event, it's rumoured that two world leaders met in the queue for the wire-flying and laid the foundations for a later trade deal between their nations. The society's everyday goings-on are, I'm told, far more pedestrian and literary. But - as the current president, Edwin Pearce, often says - “what's an Oscar Wilde society without a little hedonism?” There's altruism, too, however; the society makes a substantial donation to a charity chosen by the members each year. This year's charity has yet to be determined, but last year the children of the Wessex Street Hospital enjoyed a very special Christmas thanks to a £20,000 cheque from the Oscar Wilde Appreciation Society. Much of the funds required to make such lavish events and donations possible are raised at those very events, which take place once a season. Tickets for the 'Magic' event have not yet been released, but previous events' tickets have sold for anything from £200 to £2000. A limited number of reduced price tickets are generally made available, so keep an eye on the Oscar Wilde Appreciation Society's website at oscarwas.org.uk if you're looking to get in without breaking the bank. If The Amazing Mr Fell will indeed be performing at the event, it might explain his recent reduction in performances – his show has gone down from six nights a week to just four, eliminating his Wednesday and Saturday performances. Magic fans in the capital can therefore hold out hope that once preparations for his upcoming performance are over, tickets might become easier to obtain. And, of course, the 'Magic' event itself promises to be one big avocado. CITRON DEUX-CHEVAL

Centre right: Drawing back the veil again Mystic Madame reportedly plotting TV return Two years after Drawing Back the Veil with Telepathic Tracy last aired, its old Saturday night slot is set to become vacant again – and rumours abound that the show may be set to return. For the last two years, live draws have been condensed into a fifteen-minute slot on BBC One, followed by an episode of one of the longer 45-minute drama series the BBC tend to favour these days. Much of the pageantry that used to go along with the weekly draw was shifted unceremoniously onto the National Lottery's YouTube channel or website, and the delivery of the actual results became more akin to the reading of a weather report before a return to the usual programming of the channel. Now, however, the BBC has put out a press release announcing that the National Lottery will now return to a half-hour draw show, allowing for 'a little more excitement and glamour'. This, the press release suggests, could take the form of a very brief trivia game before the draw, a return to celebrities wishing everyone luck before pressing the all-important button, a chance to showcase musical acts during the show, or some combination of the above. I'm all for a return to the showbiz nature of the nation's most mainstream gambling ring, but it's the shortening of the subsequent timeslot that has my attention. Already, just a day after the BBC's announcement, speculation is rife about what – and who – might be about to fill that second half-hour time slot. Most of the shows the BBC produces these days are designed for a 45-minute or hour-long format, and producers will be understandably reluctant to try to condense comedy, gameshows or drama into such a small space – especially given the National Lottery's occasional tendency to overrun. Pre-recorded shows have come unstuck before when the Camelot machines have jammed or some other calamity has befallen the draw, most notably in 2019 when the initial episode of Season 6 of Sherlock aired without the crucial first three minutes that explained the detective's cunning escape from the previous season's climactic scrape. It's the sort of situation that calls for a steady hand and an almost supernatural ability to adjust to disaster. Who better to take on the challenge than a woman who's had years of practice? Telepathic Tracy, the Mystic Madame, is very much still working her mysterious ways despite her departure from our TV screens – notably in The New Aquarian - and what better way to follow a disappointing lotto result than with the reassurance that this week, your luck will be better, or at the very least predictable? I, for one, predict Madame Tracy's triumphant return to television - and what's more, I welcome it. EDWARD BIGGS

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updated TCWG relationship chart (pre-timeskip)

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Here's our top five TCM picks for the week of Sept. 28, 2020

:1. You Can't Take It With You (1938) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Monday, Sept. 28: Finish off Screwball September with this Oscar-winning comedy about a straight-laced banker (James Stewart) who falls in love with the daughter of an eccentric family. This film features some of the '30s best character actors including Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, and Edward Arnold

.2. Madame Curie (1943) at 10:30 am ET/7:30 am PT Tuesday, Sept. 29: Birthday lady Greer Garson plays the pioneering scientist in this reverential MGM biopic. Walter Pidgeon and Margaret O'Brien as Curie's husband and daughter are also excellent.

3. La Strada (1954) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Thursday Oct. 1: We'll be clearing our DVR each Thursday in October for TCM's lineup of movies restored by The Film Foundation. This week starts out with Italian director Federico Fellini's masterpiece, La Strada, and continues with Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn in the marital drama Two for the Road (1967) and director William Wyler's superb drama Dodsworth (1936). Here's a link to the complete lineup: http://www.tcm.com/.../Celebrating-30-Years-of-The-Film...

4. Dracula at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Friday, Oct. 2: We'll be live-tweeting along at https://twitter.com/oldhollywood21 with this iconic old Hollywood horror film starring the incomparable Bela Lugosi.

5. Sherlock Jr. (1924) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Sunday, Oct. 4: Celebrate Buster Keaton's 125th birth date with his defining masterpiece about a movie projectionist who unexpectedly becomes part of a "reel-life" mystery.

#TCM #TCM party #let's movie #screwball comedy #screwball september #greer garson #the film foundation #dracula #old hollywood horror #horror films #buster keaton #classic movies #classic movie stars #old hollywood

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Last Minute Volume 8 Part 2 Theories

Penny and Cinder

Watts will die the same way the Madame did, strangled to death by a child he tried to exploit while desperately using technology to try and regain control of her. Cinder will bear witness to this, and will, for the very first time since learning of Penny’s true nature, regard her as a person instead of a machine. She’ll still try to kill her for the Maiden Power, but throughout the entire battle with the badly beaten and exhausted Penny, will not make any attacks on Penny’s personhood out of newfound respect for her.

But when she actually wins, and goes for the killing blow, she won’t see Penny Polendina: she’ll see her younger self. And that brief moment of hesitation will be enough for Penny to get away as Cinder quietly reflects on her actions for the past 8 Volumes.

Oscar’s Redemption Train

Emerald will help Oscar escape with the Lamp of Knowledge, while Hazel will probably end up dying to help JOYRE (the E is for Emerald) to escape.

Winter’s Fall

Winter and the Ace Ops will run into Salem, who’ll seduce them to her side against Ironwood by appealing to their emotions. For Winter, Elm, and Vine, she’ll appeal to their loyalty to Atlas and basically point out how Ironwood’s mismanagement has gotten so many people killed, and how sacrificing him might be their only option. For Marrow, she’ll appeal to the fact that the Military has rewarded his loyalty with nothing but abuse since Day 1, playing off of his hatred of his coworkers. For Harriet, she’ll take advantage of her misplaced anger and promise to help her get even with Ruby. To sweeten the deal, she’ll even heal Winter’s injuries, while lamenting that magic can’t cure infections. When Marrow shows himself to be unsure of his current course of action, Winter will try to be reassuring (as seen by that trailer shot where Winter’s hand is conspicuously missing the braces she has to wear to walk).

Why Ironwood Freaked Out

When we see that trailer shot of Ironwood’s panicked reaction to something off screen: I came to the conclusion that, in the show itself, it’ll be the last time we see Ironwood alive.

Something will happen when the camera cuts away, but when it cuts back, we’ll see one of two things:

Penny strangling Watts to death while covered in Ironwood’s blood.

Winter standing over Ironwood’s corpse as her new Ironwood summon orders the Atlesian Army to stand down and announces that Atlas is surrendering and submitting to Salem’s rule. Neo will use her Semblance to make the Summon look like Ironwood while Cinder uses her Semblance to dispose of his corpse.

Either way, Winter will make Salem the Queen of Atlas, who’ll order the Military to open fire on the reinforcements Ruby called for.

The Hound

Will be revealed to have Summer inside of it. Cinder will witness the Hound regenerating around Summer’s body and realize THAT is what Salem plans to turn her into.

Marrow’s Arc

While Marrow will pretend to be okay with joining Salem’s faction, he will take the soonest opportunity to flee and defect to the hero’s side as soon as the fighting stops, as he knows that there’s not much he can do if Salem kills them.

Raven’s Role

Raven, Taiyang, and Zwei (who is still a good boy) will arrive and join up with Yang’s group, with Raven very clearly having not learned her lesson and still being a self-serving coward, at which point it will be revealed that QROW was the only one unaware that Raven was the Spring Maiden, instead thinking that Yang was and just didn’t know how to close the Vault. While Yang never said that Raven was the Spring Maiden, everyone else was able to piece it together from context clues and just didn’t press it, Ozpin not wanting to force Yang to discuss something she clearly wasn’t ready for (Yang feeling somewhat guilty for lashing out at Ozpin after learning this).

Raven, however, will die in the final episode in a purely performative heroic sacrifice where she detonates the bomb to destroy the Monstra, raining the Grimm Liquid contained within on Atlas and Mantle and causing a huge chunk of Atlas to collapse into the Crater. She only does this AFTER Salem has already relocated to Ironwood’s office and her final words before getting vaporized in the blast will be a spiteful “Now it’s your problem, daughter!” even though Yang isn’t there to hear her.

Blake however, will have heard from Marrow that the last he had seen of Yang she had gone in to rescue Oscar, and state that last he heard of it, Oscar was still imprisoned by Salem.

The Final Shot Before the Credits Role

Just as all hope seems lost, reinforcement from Mistral and Menagerie will arrive, setting the stage for Volume 9.

Where Do We Go From Here?

JOYR and RWBN will reunite in V9C1 and swap notes.

Yang, upon learning that Summer is still alive and inside the Hound, will come to the realization that her REAL mother is still alive and decide that she will find and rescue her mother.

Cinder will be left alone, having driven away Emerald, while Neo will have found a way into Salem’s inner circle. With nothing to do but reflect, she comes to the (rightful) conclusion that she’s a monster, and decides that the only way to atone is with her own blood. From this point until she’s finally freed of the Shadow Hand (the official name of her Grimm Arm), she’ll be a death seeker.

Winter, Elm, and Vine will be morally conflicted, and if Winter killed Ironwood herself, she’ll try and consult her Ironwood Summon for advice. Either way, she’ll have officially alienated her family.

With Hazel and Watts dead and Tyrian and Mercury in Vacuo, Salem will use Neo and the Ace Ops to replace her followers.

RWBYJRON will reconcile with Ozpin.

Emerald will develop a guilt-complex and start treating Penny the way she used to treat Cinder, much to Penny’s concern.

Yang and Blake will get to meet each other’s parents. Awkward hilarity ensues.

Ironwood is dead and nobody cares except for Winter.

Cordovin will show up with the reinforcements and she and Maria will find come to the horrifying realization that they are, for once, on the same side and have to work together.

Volume 9 Opening Guesses

We’ll have a shot of Salem placing a white king on a chess board. The white queen will turn into Winter as the king turns into either a Seer (if Penny killed Ironwood) or an Ironwood Summon (if Winter killed him) and the rest of the pieces turn into Winter’s other Summons, as the black pieces turn into the heroes, with the Black King turning into the Staff of Creation and Penny being the Black Queen (ironically enough).

The Happy Huntresses will fight Winter and the Ace Ops who haven’t defected yet, Robyn vs Harriet, Fiona vs Vine, Joanna vs Elm, and May vs Winter.

There’ll be a shot referencing the V7 OP where Weiss stands with her mother, Whitley, and Klein before the snow sweeps that image away to reveal Winter standing alone.

There’ll be a shot of Cinder glaring hatefully at her Beacon Arc self as the image of Amber materializes behind her, before Yang and Penny show up, the images of Raven and Fria behind them. All three will be using their Maiden Powers.

We’ll get a shot of Ruby, Taiyang, Yang, and Qrow reaching out for Summer, who gets dragged into the shadows, only for the Hound to lunge out to meet them.

Maria and Cordovin will awkwardly shake hands while glaring at each other and visibly tightening their grips to try and get the other to let go.

The final shot will be the Vault of the Winter Maiden opening to reveal the Monty Oum credit every OP closes on.

#rwby #rwby theory

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David Bowie's Top 100 Reads:

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

Room At The Top by John Braine

On Having No Head by Douglass Harding

Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

City Of Night by John Rechy

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Iliad by Homer

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell

Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall

David Bomberg by Richard Cork

Blast by Wyndham Lewis

Passing by Nella Larson

Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto

The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

The Divided Self by R. D. Laing

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman

The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter

The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

Black Boy by Richard Wright

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler

The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot

McTeague by Frank Norris

Money by Martin Amis

The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Strange People by Frank Edwards

English Journey by J.B. Priestley

A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West

1984 by George Orwell

The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

Beano (comic, ’50s)

Raw (comic, ’80s)

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick

Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage

Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley

The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete

Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky

The Street by Ann Petry

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.

A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz

The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

The Bridge by Hart Crane

All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey

Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich

Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Teenage by Jon Savage

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Viz (comic, early ’80s)

Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)

Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara

The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler

Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno

The Insult by Rupert Thomson

In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan

A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes

Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

#david bowie #book list #must

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can you rec me some books? i wanna start reading classics but i don't want to read jane eyre lol.

i got you! most of them aren’t classics but i included some of my favourites and the ones i recently read hope you like them

the waves, mrs dalloway, to the lighthouse and orlando by virginia woolf

the picture of dorian grey by oscar wilde

written on the body and lighthousekeeping by jeanette winterson

slouching towards bethlehem by joan didion

sputnik sweetheart and the wind up bird chronicles by haruki murakami

the vegetarian by han kang

transcendent kingdom by yaa gyasi

a little life by hanya yanagihara

a clockwork orange by anthony burgess

on the road by jake kerouac

the accidental and spring by ali smith

wuthering heights by charlotte brontë

madame bovary by gustave flaubert

fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury

#ask #books #book recs #classics

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sysk-ehess · 4 years

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ULRIKE OTTINGER

Mercredi 21 octobre à 19h (heure de Paris)

Wednesday October 21, 7pm (Paris time)

Bonjour à vous ! Nous vous espérons en bonne santé, vous, vos proches, où que vous vous trouviez confiné·es. Ce séminaire aura lieu en ligne via Zoom Le nombre de places étant limité, Il est nécessaire de s’inscrire préalablement : [email protected] Hello Everyone! We hope you and your loved ones are well and safe. This seminar will take place online via Zoom The number of attendees is limited, please register at this address if you wish to attend: [email protected]

C’est d’abord à Constance (Allemagne), où elle ouvrit très jeune un atelier, puis à Paris, où elle vécut entre 1962 et début 1969, qu’Ulrike Ottinger a reçu sa formation intellectuelle et artistique. Artiste proche des nouvelles figurations narratives, elle étudia les techniques de la gravure dans l’atelier de Johnny Friedlaender tout en assistant à des conférences, notamment de Claude Lévi- Strauss, Louis Althusser et Pierre Bourdieu. Elle écrit son premier scénario Le double tiroir mongol en 1966. De retour en Allemagne de l'Ouest, elle fonde avec l’Université de Constance le filmclub visuell en 1969, en même temps que la galerie et maison d’édition galeriepress (présentant entre autres Wolf Vostell, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney). Avec l’actrice et figure lesbienne Tabea Blumenschein, elle réalise son premier film en 1972-1973, Laoocon et fils. Installée à Berlin en 1973 elle tourne un documentaire sur le happening Berlinfever-Wolf Vostell. Après avoir célébré le retour sur la scène berlinoise de la grande performeuse, mime et danseuse des années 1920 Valeska Gert (L’enchantement des marins bleus, 1975), Ottinger fait de Tabea Blumenschein la figure-culte de Madame X (1977). On la retrouve dans deux des films de la Trilogie berlinoise, composée de Aller jamais retour (1979), Freak Orlando (1981) et Dorian Gray dans le miroir de la presse à scandale (1984). Filmée dans les ruines industrielles de la ville, cette trilogie réunit Magdalena Montezuma, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Eddie Constantine, Kurt Raab, Peer Raben et bien sûr Delphine Seyrig. Celle-ci jouera son dernier rôle dans le merveilleux Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia réalisé en Mongolie en 1989.

La collaboration entre Delphine Seyrig et Ulrike Ottinger est l’un des points forts de l’exposition Muses Insoumises/Defiant Muses (curatrices : Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez et Giovanna Zapperi), qui s’est tenue jusqu’au 17/7/20 au Reina Sofia de Madrid. En plus des fictions, Ulrike Ottinger a consacré de longues périodes à la recherche pour ses films documentaires qui l’ont menée en Chine (de China. The Arts-The People (1985)’ jusqu’à Exile Shanghai (1997)), ou en Europe du Sud-Est (dont Southeast Passage, 2002, montré à la Documenta 11 d’Okwui Enwezor en 2002). Ottinger s’attache à filmer le Berlin d’après la chute du mur, tourne également à Vienne (Prater, 2007), en Corée (L’armoire de mariage coréenne, 2009) ou au Japon (Under Snow, 2011). Elle s’engage sur les traces d’Adalbert von Chamisso et des explorateurs des 18-19e siècles filmant durant trois mois dans le détroit de Bering (L’ombre de Chamisso, un film de 12h, et une exposition à la Bibliothèque nationale de Berlin). Entre 2017 et 2019, elle a réalisé son Paris Calligrammes, film présenté actuellement à Paris après une exposition à la HKW de Berlin. Les films d'Ulrike Ottinger ont été montrés, entre autres, dans les festivals de Toronto, Amsterdam, Moscou, Londres, Montréal, Jérusalem et Rio de Janeiro. Ils ont fait l’objet de rétrospectives dans le monde entier, notamment à la Cinémathèque française et au Centre Pompidou à Paris, au Museo Reina Sofia de Madrid, au MoMA de New York et au Center for Contemporary Art de Tel Aviv. Ils ont également reçu de nombreux prix, dont le prix du public à Montréal et celui de la critique de cinéma allemande. En 2011, Ottinger a reçu le prix Hannah Höch pour l’ensemble de sa carrière et l’Université Concordia de Montréal l’a nommée docteure honoris causa pour les beaux-arts en 2018. Elle a également été invitée en tant que jurée aux Oscars 2019. Travaillant pour le théâtre (Elfriede Jelinek, Olga Neuwirth, …) dont elle conçoit les décors, Ulrike Ottinger s’identifie non seulement comme artiste, peintre, cinéaste, mais aussi comme scénariste, directrice de la photo, créatrice de costumes et photographe. Elle a collecté et publié une archive visuelle (Bilderarchiv) en 2005 et réalisé un atlas-collage de quarante ans de productions visuelles (Floating Food, 2011). Plusieurs expositions récentes, dont à la n.b.k. de Berlin en 2011, ont permis de revenir sur son travail des années 1960, célébré aujourd’hui dans l’exposition collective SHE-BAM POW POP WIZZ ! Les amazones du Pop au Mamac de Nice.

La galerie Eric Mouchet à Paris présente actuellement l’exposition Ulrike Ottinger, Aller toujours retour et le film Paris-Calligrammes est au programme des cinémas Reflets-Médicis et Luminor à Paris.

[EN] Ulrike Ottinger was born in Konstanz in 1942. She lived in Paris from 1962 to 1969 as a painter and photographer, where she also wrote her first film script Die mongolische Doppelschublade. Graphic works originated at the Atelier Friedländer. She returned to Germany in 1969, where she founded the filmclub Visuell in cooperation with the Universität Konstanz and the galeriepress (in which she presented Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow, R. B. Kitaj, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney).

Her first film, Laocoon and Sons, made in collaboration with Tabea Blumenschein, was recorded in 1971-1973. In 1973 she moved to Berlin and filmed the Happening-documentary Berlinfever – Wolf Vostell. It was followed by The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors in 1975 with Valeska Gert, and by Madame X – An Absolute Ruler in 1977, which was an international success. Work on the Berlin Trilogy, Ticket of No Return, (Bildniseiner Trinkerin,1979), Freak Orlando (1981) and Dorian Grey in the YellowPress (Dorian Grey im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984) began in 1979. She was able to win Delphine Seyrig, Magdalena Montezuma, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Eddie Constantine and Kurt Raab, as well as the composer Peer Raben for these works, which were filmed in industrial wastelands and alienated urban landscapes.

The collaboration between Delphine Seyrig and Ulrike Ottinger was part of the exhibition Defiant Muses (curators : Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez & Giovanna Zapperi) at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

In addition to fictional films, Ulrike Ottinger also devoted herself to documentary film. Intensive and comprehensive research characterizes all her films from China. The Arts – The People (China. Die Künste – Der Alltag, 1985) to Exile Shanghai (1997), from Southeast Passage (2002, exhibited at Okwui Enwezor’s Documenta 11) to Prater (2007), from The Korean Wedding Chest, to Under Snow filmed in the Japanese Snow Country Echigo. For her film Chamisso’s Shadow (2016) Ulrike Ottinger travelled for three months along the Bering Sea, tracing the paths taken by the great 18th and 19th C explorers. This is her longest documentary to date (12 hours); the accompanying exhibition took place in the National Library in Berlin.

Ottinger's most recent film, Paris Calligrammes, premiered in the spring of 2020 and in Paris on October 6. Both her films and her photographic work have been shown in numerous retrospectives and exhibitions, including at the Venice Biennale (1980), at the Cinémathèque française, Paris (1980, 1982), at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2000, 2004), as well as the Centre Pompidou, the Sammlung Goetz. Her Hannah-Höch-Award 2011 was accompanied by a retrospective including her paintings at the nbk,Berlin (2011 12) and her worldimages were shown at the kestnergesellschaft in Hannover (2013).

In Paris, the Eric Mouchet Gallery is currently presenting an exhibition: Ulrike Ottinger, Go Always Return.

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#something you should know #SYSK #Ehess #artist #producer #ulrike ottinger

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