Histoire(s) du cinephiles des follies. Writing about Akerman, tweeting about Keanu.
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Chantal Akerman: 10 Essential Films. I wrote this for @BFI, before NO HOME MOVIE is released on Friday: bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news…
I'm about to embark upon a huge project and need help sourcing a few films. I know the Feilding and de Van are beyond long shots, but if anyone has a lead/link, I'd be grateful: boxd.it/YfOYm
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The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future
The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come.
#YouSavedThePCC
One of the Carson lines I think about most often, from her Paris Review interview. "The best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't."
I chose nine books that have changed my reading (thinking, writing) since I met my wife. Really, everything I've read since is a consequence of her giving me Grief Is The Thing With Feathers on an early date. myninebooks.com/g/77f6c208c8…
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On the eve of Anne Carson winning the Nobel prize I have to bring up this article that I absolutely love. Just remarkable writing through and through
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Just in!
New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon.
Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.
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This year’s #NobelPrize laureate Anne Carson was born in 1950 in Toronto, Canada. In 1981, she published her doctoral thesis in Classics entitled ‘Odi et Amo Ergo Sum’, and has, throughout her entire career, combined poetry writing with translation work and teaching at various universities.
Almost all her literary production has centred upon the intersection between the philologist’s obsession with words and the poet’s desire for new meaning. She has herself identified the etymology of words as the starting point for all her work.
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Read this mindblowing essay on snow in the @LRB if you want an initiation into the Carson world. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n08/…
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We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages.
granta.com/contributor/anne-…
I can name no living writer more singular, whose actual voice - full of song, cheek, and wisp - I can actually hear floating over the sentences, whose rhythm physically prevents me from putting an essay down. I can’t imagine the labour that makes this all feel like so much magic.
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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PENDA'S FEN is on proper telly tonight for the first time in years! If you've seen our Folk Horror show, you've seen me and Bob Fischer banging on about how much we adore David Rudkin's astonishing play. It's on BBC Four at 10.15pm. If you've never seen it, you're in for a treat!
For @3ammagazine's Minute 9 column, I wrote about Claire Denis' U.S. GO HOME. "But before the night of the dance, it’s early morning in the late sixties in the bassin parisien... Occupation, construction, coming-of-age – everything here is half-finished."
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Absolutely astonishing image. It looks like a Colville. Somehow depthless and 3-D, a collaging of effects to uncanny affect. The longer you look at it, the stranger it gets. The way the foreground is made shallow by a string of connected objects, then the parallel buildings 1/2
I highly recommend catching @ultradogme's Peter Bundy programme. It's rare to see such a particular structural rigor (structure as a 'felt' aspect of form) matched to these modest regional subjects. So happens Bundy makes exactly the kinds of films I want to see. That's all.
If, as a critic, you are trying to help “paint the picture of what an audience can anticipate,” you will not be worth reading. That’s marketing, of which there is already plenty. Don’t project. Reflect. You’ve just had an embodied encounter with a work of art, so relate that.
We’ve legit lost the plot. I honestly have zero idea what people are looking for these days but there needs to be a major shift in criticism. The movie I saw was well written, well directed, beautifully shot, insanely well performed and the sound was amazing. Are we “film” critics or not. We’re supposed to help paint the picture of what an audience can anticipate and this score is not even close to that picture, objectively.
How many films aside from Psycho have been repurposed or referenced in other major artworks (especially in mediums other than film)? And what is it about Psycho that continually draws us back to make more out of it? I’d kind of argue the ‘remake’ falls into this category too.
I'm looking for these films for research but can't locate them via my usual sources. If anyone has copies, I'd appreciate it! boxd.it/T6jYC
Extremely exciting that @SecondRunDVD are releasing Kazuo Hara’s EXTREME PRIVATE EROS, one of the best Japanese films of the 1970s, and one of the best documentaries ever made.
