The Hardy Men | Daniel Lefferts In 2022 Jonathan Keeperman, then a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Irvine, who for years had moonlighted as a

For anyone who, like me, was an avid reader of the Hardy Boys books as a child, this recent article – about the successive waves of sanitisation and politicisation that have buffeted the series over the last century – is thoroughly absorbing

Good to know stot is another term for pronk

The blue-sky thinking of Konrad Mägi After soaking up influences in Norway and France, the Estonian painter brought his own form of modernism back home, writes Arjun Sajip

Last year I visited Tallinn and Tartu to write about the Estonian modernist painter Konrad Mägi, now the subject of a show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Worth noting that the Estonian National Museum and Kumu Art Museum are object lessons in museum-making

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‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ is one of my favourite films of the last 10 years, and though the follow-up is more scattershot it has its rewards. Some thoughts below

One of the very best things I saw last year; devastating stuff. Great to see so many top-tier neo-noirs getting rereleases after decades of neglect. Despairing films for despairing times

Chris Marker’s memories come out of cold storage The film-maker’s attempt to preserve his memories on CD-ROM has been rendered obsolete. Emilie Bickerton finds out if the book version of Immemory is an adequate replacement

‘What is described as abundant storage space is really a set of high-security vaults. We fill them with our memories and then we throw away the keys, or someone else does.’

A fascinating read for fans of Chris Marker

So much fun, I re-subscribed.

Gorgeous! Do read.

He coulda been one hell of a qawwali singer

This is not a painting. It is made entirely of wood, its surface flat. A detail from the 15th-century "Studiolo Gubbio", one of the finest examples of intarsia, the masterful art of fitting together pieces of wood to make images: publicdomainreview.org/essay/e...

Wes Anderson on The Phoenician Scheme The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, powerf...

Some months ago, ahead of ‘The Phoenician Scheme’, I had a long chat with Wes Anderson about billionaires, Buñuel, Benicio del Toro and the nature of patronage. That interview is now online

The hideous presentation is a given by now, but it’s sadder that among its many vast genre blindspots, Spotify doesn’t seem to know the difference between calypso and soca

Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor of Ran, Yojimbo and Harakiri, dies aged 92 Star of Japan’s cinematic golden age, who collaborated with Kurosawa and played the lead in Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy, died from pneumonia

The stage was his great love, but Tatsuya Nakadai gave some of the most vivid screen performances of the 20th century. His Kurosawa collabs are indelible but ‘The Human Condition’, in which he embodies an attrition of the human spirit over several years and 10 hours, might be his masterpiece

“A Long Winter” is the last and longest story in Colm Toibín’s excellent collection ‘Mothers and Sons’; where most of the stories are set in Ireland, this one memorably decamps to Catalonia and ups the psychological ante. Looking forward to seeing what Andrew Haigh does with it

In ‘The Mastermind’, Kelly Reichardt steals the show Ahead of the UK release of ‘The Mastermind’, the director sat down with Apollo to talk about the thrills of making an art-heist movie

Very much enjoyed speaking to Kelly Reichardt about her favourite museums, the first artwork to rock her world and the joys of filming an art heist

Sonny Curtis Dies at 88; His Songs Included Mary Tyler Moore’s Theme

The prolific singer-songwriter Sonny Curtis died on Friday at age 88. Curtis had performed with Buddy Holly, opened for Elvis Presley and written hits like “I Fought the Law,” “Walk Right Back” and “Love Is All Around” — the theme song for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which he also sang.

That Supertramp was a great band is one of my most unfashionable opinions. Hodgson may have sung the best-known songs but Davies’s solo here – backed by an incredibly tight band, sans Hodgson – is a high point of live rock piano

Napoleon was born #onthisday in 1769. After the collapse of his empire in 1815, “le petit caporal” was imprisoned on St Helena, and while there started learning English. One resident of the island called his English “the oddest in the world” — publicdomainreview.org/collection/n... #otd

a genealogy of stomp clap

have sensed some confusion re: the origins of stomp clap that i'm all too happy to clear up maxread.substack.com/i/170106944/...

ICA | Trenque Lauquen The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

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Trenque Lauquen review: a hymn to the unclassifiable A woman is pulled into the mysteries of a small Argentinian town after discovering a stash of erotic love letters in Laura Citarella’s intoxicating four-hour film.

If you’re London-based and have no plans tomorrow, the endlessly beguiling mystery epic ‘Trenque Lauquen’ is screening at the ICA and I cannot recommend it enough. I wrote about it here

My biggest surprise on rewatching was how many belly-laughs it got out of me. Leonard Rossiter is exquisite

Thanks Lou – you too!

The pace can take some getting used to. But now’s a good time to give it a chance on the big screen – and if you still don’t like it, at least you’ll have seen it more or less as intended!

Thank you Caspar!

This was a daunting task, but I had a great time unpicking how Kubrick borrowed from 18th-century art to make one of the most beautiful films ever made.

Beautifully written piece.

Fun fact of the day: Mr. T's pastor is called Eric Clopton

Exactly the kind of precision I want from my weather forecasts