Meanwhile in my head, I'm undergoing open-heart surgery

[joanlattanzio]

I realize that I have left part of myself in a place where I shall probably never come back.

Shame - Annie Ernaux (via joanlattanzio)

[m--bloop]

“Don’t you hear what she’s saying? Don’t you understand what she’s trying to tell us?”

A Woman Under the Influence dir. John Cassavetes (1974)

[speedou]

Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022)

[nobrashfestivity]

Louise Bourgeois  

Spirals

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[generallynaive]

Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)

directed by Pedro Almodóvar

[updownfragile]

Black Mother (Khalik Allah, 2018)

[aestheticsofcare]

Now You See Me

In advance of the U.S. release of Céline Sciamma’s new film, “Petite Maman,” Elif Batuman writes about the French film director, who is best

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Compartment No 6 (Juho Kuosmanen, 2021)

[annoyingthemesong]

SUBLIME CINEMA #501 - TAMING THE GARDEN

The most powerful man in Georgia is not named in this documentary, for fear he would retaliate against the people interviewed in this movie. His hobby? To uproot centuries-old trees in impoverished villages, and carry them by sea to his private garden, somewhere far away. We never see the man, or know much about him - we only follow the uprooting of the land and beauty for a wealthy oligarch’s Babylon, and the boats that carry it all away, tree by tree. 

[theories-of]

[intimatum]

Anne Collier, Endpapers #1 (Nude Landscapes, Arnie Hedin) (2012)

[cinematapestry]

Laurence Anyways (2012) dir. Xavier Dolan

[ifidanzati-deactivated20250603]

Small Axe: Lovers Rock (2020), dir. Steve McQueen

[aestheticsofcare]

Coventry | Rachel Cusk | Granta Magazine

‘War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself.’ Rachel Cusk on being sent to Coventry.

Rachel Cusk on being sent to Coventry

[distantvoices]

By Eli Wirija For Vogue.com August 2020. Raisa Flowers (Makeup Artist), Dawn Sterling (Manicurist).

[easybakec0ven]

““Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do, and that’s not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration there would hardly be any need to daydream. And daydreams return me to my original sense of things and I luxuriate in these fervid primary visions until I am entirely my unalloyed self again. So even though it sometimes feels as if one could just about die from disappointment I must concede that in fact in a rather perverse way it is precisely those things I did not get that are keeping me alive.””

— Claire-Louise Bennett, “The Deepest Sea” in Pond

[diueliz]

Stendalì: Suonano Ancora (Cecilia Mangini, 1960)

Shot in Martano, Stendalì is the record of a female mourning ritual – enacted within ethnic Greek communities that spoke Griko, a dialect that can still be found in southern Puglia – on the brink of extinction. When Mangini arrived in the town in 1960, she could find only two women who remembered fragments of the chants; they told her, “‘When we are gone, the lamentations will be gone, too.” Despite its observational style – albeit sped up in the edit, sometimes to comical effect – the film is in fact entirely reconstructed and restaged. Believing funeral chants to be one of the highest forms of poetry, Mangini entrusted Pasolini to work with the two women’s memories to create a Griko ‘replica’ and to write a narrated script in Italian, voiced by actress Lilla Brignone. The addition of voice-over meant that Mangini didn’t have to choose between integrating Italian translation or subtitles, which she believed would disrupt the rhythm of the songs and the relationship between sound and image.

[artist-matisse]

The Plaster Torso, 1919, Henri Matisse

Medium: oil,canvas