Happy 90th Birthday, Chris Marker

L'Héritage de la chouette [The Owl's Legacy] by Chris Marker, 1989:


Now open for business:

Chris Marker's work-in-progress Gorgomancy.net.

Presently on the menu:

L'Héritage de la chouette [The Owl's Legacy, 1989]

A web/Flash conversion of the Immemory CD-ROM [1997]

Ouvroir: A Second Life Wandering with Guillaume-en-Egypte [2010]

Stopover in Dubai [2011]

A Day to Remember by Liu Wei [2005]

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Blonde Venus

I wrote a short piece about Josef von Sternberg's great 1932 Blonde Venus at The MUBI Notebook here. It's part of a slate of capsules about the films projecting during Week 3 of Film Forum's excellent Essential Pre-Code series. (Details and full schedule here.) Blonde Venus plays on Sunday July 31st and Monday August 1st as part of a double-bill with John Francis Dillon's 1932 Call Her Savage.

The MUBI Notebook entry also includes pieces by Gina Telaroli, David Cairns, Ben Sachs, Zach Campbell, Glenn Kenny, and Jaime Christley.

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Letter from a Friend

this is the only song i ve listened today
my mom invited like thirty people
a traditional middle eastern welcome party to [redacted]
lots of tea lots of deserts [sic]
and me with my lovely dress smiling to everyone and at the same time thinking about the dream i had last night
burning houses with my mom ...
sometimes i want to burn everything around me
i wish i could do it one day burning a chair burning all of my books burning curtains
burning a palm tree
:)
this song is so beautiful

i hope you re doing well
lots of love from
mersin

Touch of Evil

Out This November on The Masters of Cinema Series




LIMITED EDITION 2 x BLU-RAY ONLY

• Six versions of Welles’ Touch of Evil: the 1998 reconstruction; the 1958 preview version rediscovered in the mid-1970s; and the 1958 theatrical version — each presented in both 1.85:1 and 1.37:1 aspect ratios

• English SDH subtitles on all versions

• A host of extras presented for the first time in the UK

• A lavish 80-PAGE illustrated book containing the words of Orson Welles, and much more

Click here for more details, or go here to Amazon UK to pre-order.

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