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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"

HELL. YES.

Khruangbin in food delivery ad?

The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses Let's time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That's when an unconventional chess match was played by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, two chess masters of the day. Apparentl...

The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses

MAGNUS CARLSEN WINS THE 2025 WORLD RAPID CHAMPIONSHIP 🏆

It is his NINETEENTH World Championship across classical, rapid, and blitz chess. Inevitable. 🐐

Brigitte Bardot: the zeitgeist-force who was France’s most sensational export | Peter Bradshaw Bardot titillated the world for five decades, but the controversy and voyeurism surrounding her shouldn’t overshadow an intriguing film career

Brigitte Bardot: the zeitgeist-force who was France’s most sensational export | Peter Bradshaw

Brigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91 Bardot became a celebrated sex symbol in 1950s and 60s, but later embraced animal rights activism and an increasingly controversial political stance Brigitte Bardot, the French actor and singer who became an international sex symbol before turning her back on the film industry to become an animal rights activist, has died aged 91. Bardot shot to international fame with the 1956 film And God Created Woman, written and directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim, and for the next two decades embodied the idea of the archetypal “sex kitten”. In the early 70s, however, she announced her retirement from acting and became increasingly active politically. Her outspoken support of animal rights evolved into incendiary comments about ethnic minorities and open support for France’s far-right Front National, resulting in a string of convictions for racial hatred. Continue reading...

Brigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91

Time is not made of distinct present moments <p><em>We tend to think of the present moment as an infinitely small, discrete period of time; the present moment occurring just after the past, and just before the future. But, argues Emily Herring, ...

We tend to think of the present moment as an infinitely small, discrete period of time, but is this incorrect? | https://bit.ly/4qjMRSX

Emily Herring argues that this is a mistake; time is a flow, containing past, present and future all at once.

#philsci ⚛️ 🧪

Best chess commentator, streamer, and speedrunner in the past decade bar none. RIP Daniel Naroditsky.

Would love to be added!

Actor Terence Stamp, star of Superman films, dies aged 87 Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits "Superman" and "Superman II", has died aged 87, his family said on Sunday.

Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits "Superman" and "Superman II", has died aged 87, his family said on Sunday.

Freestyle Chess Calls Off India Event, Buettner Steps Down As CEO The fifth event in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors.

The fifth event in the #FreestyleChess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors.
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Maurice Merleau-Ponty Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought

Melvyn Bragg & guests discuss philosopher Merleau-Ponty who was working within phenomenology. He rejected Descartes’ division between body & mind, arguing that the way we perceive the world around us cannot be separated from our experience of inhabiting a physical body www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Is Cinema Mortal?, André Bazin, 1953 The fact that one can reasonably ask oneself such a question today, and that it requires some thinking through to come to an optimistic answer, should be enough to justify astonishment and musing.

Is Cinema Mortal?

“The fact that one can reasonably ask oneself such a question today, and that it requires some thinking through to come to an optimistic answer, should be enough to justify astonishment and musing.” – André Bazin

L'histoire de "Scénario" - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE Dernier rendez-vous avec Jean-Luc Godard. Ce documentaire montre le cinéaste dans la préparation de "Scénario", son film testamentaire inachevé, avant de se clore sur une scène bouleversante : l’ultim...

Making of du dernier film achevé de JLG, "Scénario".

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What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate

We are interested in ideas about photography’s future roles in social, artistic, scientific, and everyday realms.

Applications are due on July 31st, 2025.

For the full call, please have a look here:
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2025 Chess.com Classic: Carlsen Advances After Nakamura Resigns In Winning Position GM Magnus Carlsen earned his spot in the 2025 Chess.com Classic Grand Final after knocking GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Hikaru Nakamura out of the Winners Bracket.

"I'll take it, of course!" said Magnus Carlsen after Hikaru Nakamura resigned in a winning position, handing over the match!
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#ChessChamps

HIKARU RESIGNS IN A WINNING POSITION!? 🫨

Both players crack up checking the game review after the match! #ChessChamps

And then everything crashed. Tech difficulties are killing the broadcast today!

NOUVELLE VAGUE, a film by Richard Linklater YouTube video by ARP Sélection

Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague looks… accurate? Hopefully it’s not just a game of recognition. m.youtube.com/watch?v=795B...

Mirror Scene from "Stolen Kisses" (1968) Francois Truffaut

@sheilakathleen.bsky.social Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1m0...

I remember be assigned The Imperative in grad school. A fascinating, frustrating, inspirational writer. He will be missed.

ayééé!
François Truffaut
Correspondance avec des cinéastes. 1954-1984
chez Gallimard
paraitra le 8 mai
shout out @lauratruffaut.bsky.social pour sa vigilance aiguisée .
Et merci Bernard Bastide & Patricia Guedot

The Last Things Before the Last, Jonathan Mackris, 2025 What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two deca...

“What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two decades of his life.” - @feuilladist.bsky.social on Godard's posthumous films

The Last Things Before the Last, Jonathan Mackris, 2025 What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two deca...

On Godard’s final works sabzian.be/text/the-las...

A scrappy cover for Michael Witt’s JEAN-LUC GODARD’S UNMADE AND ABANDONED PROJECTS.

Books! Godard, Satyajit Ray, Anita Loos, James Gandolfini, Sigrid Nunez, Zheng Zhi, Jonathan Rosenbaum … www.criterion.com/current/post...

Niemann Withdraws Last Minute From Freestyle Chess In Paris Less than 48 hours before The Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam kicks off in the French capital, GM Hans Niemann has withdrawn from the tournament for "personal reasons".

Jan Henric Buettner: "We are obviously incredibly disappointed to hear about Hans Niemann's withdrawal from this event"

New Book Releases / Spring 2025 Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.

📚 Just published: the Spring edition of our seasonal roundup of recently released and upcoming film publications.

Only known script of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless to be auctioned online About 70 pages of director’s handwritten notes for the New Wave classic were found after more than 60 years

Quite a find www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Hmm… which one is cake? It’s a head-scratcher.