They may have been lovers — Buñuel denied it in his 1983 memoir My Last Sigh — but their bond left a mark on them both. Lorca wrote several poems referencing his fondness for Buñuel. And all his life Buñuel remembered his deep love for Lorca, dying at 83 in Mexico City. #literature #cinema #spain
Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel shared one of the great friendships of the early 20th century. Lorca would become one of Spain's most beloved poets. Buñuel would become one of cinema's most daring directors. Lorca was murdered by Spanish Nationalists in 1936 and his body was never found.
Rain by Raymond Carver #poetry
It feels like a brag but The Screening Room in Kingston is playing the uncut Béla Tarr film, Sátántangó, on Friday - all 7.5 hours of it. I haven't looked forward to a film screening so much in a very long time! #filmsky #cinemasky #hungarianculture #krasznahorkai #belatarr
Rembrandt painted old age like no one else. Look at this self-portrait from 1661 — the weathered skin, the tired, experienced eyes, wisps of white hair under the cloth cap. Rembrandt understood that a face full of years is a face full of stories. Getting old is a privilege. Beautiful. #artsky
On a Wednesday in 1961, the Metropolitan Museum of New York paid a record $2.3 million for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) and by that Saturday it was already on display. That first day, the painting attracted 50,000 people to see it. The 2nd day, 70,000 came. #artsky
Today I read in Anthony Amore's & Tom Mashberg's book Stealing Rembrandts that this painting, Jacob de Gheynt II by Rembrandt, is the most stolen painting in the world, having been stolen at least four times from various museums since 1966. #artsky #booksky
A PORTABLE PARADISE by Roger Robinson
And if I speak of Paradise
then I'm speaking of my grandmother
who told me to carry it always
on my person, concealed, so
no one else would know but me.
That way, they can't steal it, she'd say.
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#worldpoetryday #poetry
Critics don't write for eternity. They write for Tuesday. And sometimes Tuesday gets it very, very wrong.
Not every Bergman film is a masterpiece, but many are. And he was attacked for them.
It makes you sit with a question: which films are we getting wrong right now? Which directors are we dismissing or undervaluing because we can't yet see past our own cultural moment?
Time does something remarkable to great art. It strips away the noise — the moral panic, the cultural conservatism, the petty critical axes being ground — and leaves only the work itself. Reading what critics wrote about Bergman in the moment is genuinely humbling.
Been deep in Peter Cowie's biography of Ingmar Bergman this week — God and the Devil — and while the filmmaking detail is endlessly fascinating, what keeps stopping me cold are the contemporary reviews. #IngmarBergman #filmmaking #filmsky #cinema #filmcriticism
No words.
Wow what a feat and practically music to my ears: the prevalence of reading (falling) with references to Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch AND Simone Weil! Could this piece by Mark Kingwell feel any more pertinent?! @theglobeandmail.com #booksky
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And we were already getting used to grass and flowers budding #winter #spring #gananoque
I asked it create an image of Father Amaro with Amélia (his love interest) but this version looks way to AI-y. #portugal #portugueseliterature #ecadequeiros
I've been enjoying Eça de Queiros's The Crime of Father Amaro (handsome young man, forced into the priesthood by circumstance not devotion & his forbidden love affair with the daughter of a town aristocrat - mid-19th century Portugal). I asked AI to create an image of Father Amaro. Voilà! #booksky
I’m in the middle of reading Diana Marcum’s book The Tenth Island - a semi-journalistic account of the Azores and the Azorean diaspora — and really sad to learn that she died a few years ago. What an interesting writer and what a sad loss. #azores #travelwriting #booksky
Really loving this Portuguese song which riffs on the traditions and tone of Fado but is also very 2026 | maria by Carolina Deslandes & Rodrigo Correia #portuguese #portugal open.spotify.com/track/0G7D0P...
#ICYMI
Let The Isabel Voices take you on The Journey, a moving, immersive musical experience that invites audiences to walk through stories of healing, resilience, and light, guided by the power of voice and strings. #YGK #YGKConcert
All the details here: www.kingstonist.com/news/the-isa...
For more about Richardson's book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Megan Marshall who wrote the forward to this book.
#books @princetonupress.bsky.social
Day 8 of Graphic Novels I Love: Albert Camus - The First Man by Jacques Ferrandez, translated by Ryan Bloom. #graphicnovels #booksky #camus #france #algeria #bandedessinee #comics
The woods looked like a painting this morning
This is such a loss: his books that explored the brutality of Portuguese colonialism, his love of Africa, his use of language and his pushing out the boundaries of what a novel is and can be. He was miraculous. #booksky #portugal #portugueseliterature www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/b...
According to KCFF, the 2026 festival set a new attendance record with 16,000 tickets sold, selling out 85 per cent of the screenings, and handing out a record 13 awards at a ceremony on Sunday evening. #YGK #FilmFestival
More details here: www.kingstonist.com/news/french-...
#ICYMI
Special guest JP Longboat will join The Isabel Voices to enhance the immersive experience of 'The Wound in the Water', one of the many pieces audiences will experience at 'The Journey', their upcoming #concert event. #YGK
Full details here: www.kingstonist.com/news/first-n...
This NYT living room collection drives me crazy. Beautiful, sure, but maybe one actually looks like somewhere you'd want to hang out. It's a pretentious, consumerist fantasy of how wealthy people want you to think they live. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/t...
We're performing the Canadian premiere of Kim André Arnesen's breathtaking Wound in the Water — plus JUNO-winning soprano Kathleen Radke and First Nations artist JP Longboat. What a way to welcome spring! 🌱
I'm so excited to share that I'll be singing with the Isabel Voices in The Journey on March 15, 2026 at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in #Kingston 🎶 www.kingstonist.com/news/the-isa...
