🎥 Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️#MUBI

Emmanuel Carrère presenta "Operazione Shylock" di Philip Roth YouTube video by Adelphi Edizioni

Emmanuel Carrère on Philip Roth and Operation Shylock. He’s written the intro to an Italian translation just published by @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social

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It’s lovely, but comes and goes too quickly!

Home to a banksia rose in bloom.

@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social hope you checked the ALT on the image of Max.

a man in a suit is playing drums on a stage in front of a microphone . Alt: NB Max Roach never played clatter…

Thank you for your attention to this clatter.

Lundi

Harold Lloyd was born 133 years ago, on April 20, 1893

When Jean-Paul's oldest friend dies, he has to return to Paris - with dangerous consequences.

That's GET SARTRE, ITV 2 at 7.30pm.

Touch of nausea after he’s served a plateful of maggots at his favourite cafe.

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Thanks for the tip. I’ll have a look.

The return of Londonophobia Reflections on an ancient prejudice

“With its non-linear streets, its architectural farrago, its chalk-and-cheese neighbourhoods, London is what happens when lots of individual choices accrue over centuries […] The result is, and always has been, a city with all the right enemies”

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Your column has convinced me he’s toast, and deservedly so too.

The Starmer-shaped hole where a prime minister should be Mandelson scandal shows he has never successfully made the transition from an opposition mindset to a governing one

In today’s paper: the big picture problem of the Mandelson affair is that to run government effectively, the prime minister needs to be willing to actually do the core parts of the job, not outsource them:

And who says it’s only Germans who make up very long compound nouns?

It seems the PM was very determined not to know

🎥 Jacques Démy’s La Baie des Anges, with Jeanne Moreau. 🎰 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mount Etna for oranges 🍊

As the island of Cythera was the birthplace of Venus, it is thought the painting depicts a departure from the island of love & its pleasures rather than an embarkation.

Fleeting pleasures: Embarkation for Cythera, 1717, by Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), French artist who heralded Rococo style & defined genre of fête galante, with scenes of elegant dalliance in poetic, often autumnal landscapes.
Musée du Louvre

Formula One in Taormina.

“We love Taormina and in particular our house. I like this place more than any other. I love the sunrise over the open sea to the east”.

Post a pic of yourself as a doctor

Filippo Brunelleschi, architect, engineer, sculptor, humanist; defined early Renaissance style in landmark works in Florence, applying geometric principles & pioneering linear perspective; died #OTD 1446.
Il Duomo, Santa Maria del Fiore / Cappella dei Pazzi

Tale as olde as tyme
Song as olde as rhyme
Wastinge tyme onlyne

Cheered me up no end.

Buy yourself a Titian for a shade under €30.

An open book with a loose painting of an oak leaf in blue on a deeper blue background, painted over the books text. On the page opposite the words ‘Let them think I AM A TREE’

William Kentridge.
Video still from Waiting for the Sibyl, 2020.