[muzinabu]

[cinematic-studies]

Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević, 2019)

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[sacredwhores]

“Whoever reads ceases to live. Go ahead, do it. Stop living, and read. What is life after all?”

— Fernando Pessoa 

[skvoreshniki-deactivated2023020]

“There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.”

— László Krasznahorkai

[sacredwhores]

“I no longer care if I die, said Korin, then, after a long silence, pointed to the nearby flooded quarry: Are those swans?”

— László Krasznahorkai, War & War

[finita--la--commedia]

Stills from “Sátántangó” (1994), directed by Bela Tarr, based on the novel by          László Krasznahorkai

[karrova]

Girls in the Garden

Le Pho

[barcarole]

A Hidden Life, dir. Terrence Malick, 2019.

[barcarole]

Сталкер (Stalker) , dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979.

[barcarole]

“Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.”

— Natsume Soseki, Light and Dark, 141 (trans. John Nathan)

[inluces]

I felt it then. Darting, out of reach. You go into these places and they are overrated, they are not nearly as dangerous as people say. Keep your head, keep the gunfire in front of you. You get close and come out unscathed every time, your face as youthful and as untroubled as before. The life of a reporter: always someone else's pain. A woman in an Iraqi hospital cradles her son newly blinded, and a single tear rolls down her cheek. The cheek is so dry and the tear moves so slowly that you focus on it for a while, the tear traveling across the wide desert plain. Your photographer needed a corpse for the newspaper, so you and a bunch of marines went out to get one. Then suddenly it's there, the warm liquid on your face, the death you've always avoided, smiling back at you like it knew all along. Your fault.

The Forever War, Dexter Filkins

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

Detail of “Before the Wedding” (1882 painting) by Antonio Muñoz Degrain

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

Cupid Carving His Bow by Italian painter and late Renaissance artist Parmigianino.

It is currently being housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

[amargedom]

“I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

— Lewis Carroll (via naturaekos)

[manessecatherine]

[wordsthat-speak]

“I need clean new people who associate me with fun. This is my number two problem: I am never satisfied with what I have. It goes hand in hand with my number two problem: rushing. Maybe they aren’t so much hand in hand as two hands of the same beast. Maybe they are my hands; I am the beast.”

— No One Belongs Here More Than You (Miranda July)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

A metamorfose dos pássaros (Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020)