Andrei Tarkovsky, Nostalghia, 1983.
Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist
Andrei Tarkovsky, Nostalghia, 1983.
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David Foster Wallace on commercial entertainment, the redemptive power of reading, and the future of writing in the age of information
– highlights from his fantastic 1996 Charlie Rose interview.
I also like, “There’s this part that makes you feel full. There’s this part that is redemptive and instructive, [so that] when you read something, it’s not just delight — you go, “Oh my god, that’s me! I’ve lived like that, I’ve felt like that, I’m not alone in the world…”
Barbara Eherenreich, Living with a Wild God, 2014.
“[I]f you’re not prepared to die when you’re almost sixty, then I would say you’ve been falling down on your philosophical responsibilities as a grown-up human being.”
Jan Wahl, Carl Theordor Dreyer and Ordet: My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker, 2012.
US poster for MEMPHIS (Tim Sutton, USA, 2013)
Designer: caspar newbolt for version industries
Poster source: IMPAwards
Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water, 2011.
“The history of my mother’s religious opinions should be told as the record of a pilgrimage. As I imagine most pilgrimages, it was less the struggle towards a given end than a continual flight from disappointment and unhappiness. Neither the joys of heaven nor hell’s worst prospects provide as forceful a motive as the mere emptiness of the world.”
One of my favorite books. I read it first 20 years ago as a memoir, not a novel. Whatever it might be, it’s a wonderful book.
Ben Lerner had a nice piece on it in the New Yorker a while back.
Larry Gottheim, Fog Line, 1970.
(16mm, color, silent, 11min)
Carl Th. Dreyer, Day of Wrath, 1943.