"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
@glenwnorton
I teach Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University Film, chess, backgammon, guitar, phenomenology, Lagavulin, Godard, Varda, Rohmer, Cavell, Bazin, Kracauer… Lived Moments: Phenomenology, Neorealism, and the New Wave (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025)
"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
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
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!
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.
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.
www.chess.com/news/view/fr...
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?
“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
Making of du dernier film achevé de JLG, "Scénario".
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/10...
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:
cloud.folkwang-uni.de/s/2zMFsW2WoZ...
"I'll take it, of course!" said Magnus Carlsen after Hikaru Nakamura resigned in a winning position, handing over the match!
www.chess.com/news/view/20...
#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!
Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague looks… accurate? Hopefully it’s not just a game of recognition. m.youtube.com/watch?v=795B...
@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
“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
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...
Jan Henric Buettner: "We are obviously incredibly disappointed to hear about Hans Niemann's withdrawal from this event"
📚 Just published: the Spring edition of our seasonal roundup of recently released and upcoming film publications.
Hmm… which one is cake? It’s a head-scratcher.