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Sunday, 2 January 2011

The Feast of Trimalchio, Wheelchair bliss

Posted by Caligula00 at 21:09

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Oscar Wilde (1887)

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language

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Evelyn Waugh

Wells, The Invisible Man (1897) read by Edward Hardwicke (2008)

Claude Rains (1933)

The Feast of Trimalchio

Fellini, Satyricon, 1969

None Shall Pass

Jacques Tati, Play Time (1967)

Alain Resnais, L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)

Jørgen Leth, Det perfekte menneske (1967)

Peter Lorre (1904-1964) The Cinematographical Stimulant

One's diet | Logan's Run (1976)

Martin Jacobson (1978-)

".... My work is based on the curiosity and fascination of that which is beyond my understanding and experience. I try to see and read the phenomena and objects that come in my way. I search for provisional recipes or methods, which can articulate and activate something in me or in somebody else. ...."

Max Von Sydow (1929-)

The Von as Johan Borg, Bergaman's Vargtimmen, Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Rene Magritte (1898–1967)

The Complete Works of Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)

Coat of Arms with a Skull (1507)

There is only One Manifestation

The Fourth, Baker as Who (1974-1981)

Hugh Hector Munro (1870-1916)

Saki

Books

Churchill, My Early Life (1930) read by Michael Tudor Barnes (2005)
Waugh, Scoop (1938) read by Simon Cadell (1983)
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1859-1860) read by Ian Holm (1985)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (1887) read by Sir Derek Jacobi (2004), Sign of the Four (1890) read by Jacobi (2006), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1892-93) read by Jacobi (2009)
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), Doctor Thorne (1858) & The Small House at Allington (1864) both read by Timothy West (2008)
Waugh, A Handful of Dust (1934) read by Simon Callow (2000)
Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930) read by Robert Hardy (2003)
Waugh, Decline & Fall (1928) read by Rik Mayall (2006)
Alan Bennett, Poetry in Motion (2001) read by Bennett
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)
Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled (2005) read by Fry
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) read by Timothy West (2001)
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975)
Simon Callow (1949-) sublime readings of Wodehouse, Penguin (2000-2003)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Michael Holroyd (1935-)
Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man (1975) read by Paul Shelley (2008)
William Schwenck Gilbert, The Bab Ballads (1865-1898)
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891) read by Edward Petherbridge (1994)
Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief (1932)
T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral (1935)

The Master

Sir John Geilgud (1904-2000)

Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) read by Michael Cochrane

Bacon, Screaming Man (1952)

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

".... The blood of Gala; More symbolic fish ...."

Art

British Museum Database Search
Noh 能
Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569)
Lucas Cranach (1472–1553)
Lucas Van Leyden (1494-1533)
Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516)
Куртизанки и проститутки. История и картинки. Часть 1
Tød†en†anz, Dance øf Dea†h, Danse Macabre
James Gillray (1757-1815)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Artchive

Ideas

Wagner (1813-1883) discussed by John Deathridge, Lucy Beckett & Michael Tanner (2002)
Horace Walpole (1717-1797) Strawberry Hills Forever or "Frisson of the Forbidden" (TLS)
Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Grayling, Janaway discuss
Woolf, Sewell, Karlin on Mr Carroll (TLS, May 2010)
Cranach: Sweetness and Cruelty
Barbarism and the European Imagination
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) discussed by Jonathan Ree, Clare Carlisie & John Lippett (2008)
Raymond Geuss, Esther Leslie and Jonathan Rae discuss the Frankfurt School [c1918-1969] (Jan 2010)
Yeats & Oedipus
Arthur, Merlin and love magic (TLS)

William Storage, Roman Imperial Portraiture

Caracalla (211-217)

Music

Masaru Satô 佐藤勝 (1928-1999)
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский (1882-1971)
Toru Takemitsu 武満徹 (1930-1996)
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Michael Laurence Nyman (1944-)
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Benjamin Britten (1932-1976)

Perez Prado, Wild, Savage & Terribly Exciting

Film

Masahiro Shinoda 篠田正浩 (1931-), Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (桜の森の満開の下) (1975)
Takashi Miike 三池崇史 (1960-), Audition オーディション (1999), Ichi The Killer 殺し屋1 (2001), Gozu 極道恐怖大劇場牛頭 (2003), 13 Assassins 十三人の刺客 (2010)
Kaneto Shindō 新藤兼人, Onibaba, 鬼婆 (1964)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa 黒沢清, Cure キュア (1997)
Sergei Ferdorovich Bondarchuk Серге́й Фё́дорович Бондарчу́к (1920-1994), War & Peace Война и мир (1961-1968), They Fought for Their Country Они сражались за Родину (1975)
Pavel Semyonovich Lungin Павел Семёнович Лунгин (1949-), The Island Остров (2006), Tsar Царь (2009)
Bong Joon-ho 봉 준호 (1969-), Gwoemul 괴물 (2006)
Masaki Kobayashi 小林正樹 (1916-1996), Seppuku 切腹 (1962), Kaidan 怪談 (1964)
Ingmar Bergman, Ansiktet [The Magician] (1958)
Michael Haneke, Caché (2005), The White Ribbon Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009)
Nagisa Oshima 大島渚 (1932-) Ai no bōrei 愛の亡霊 (1978)
Sakichi Sato, Tokyo Zombie 東京ゾンビ (1999)
Shirô Toyoda 豊田四郎, Portrait of Hell (Jigokuhen) 地獄変 (1969)
Yasuzo Masumura 増村保造, Koshoku ichidai otoko (1961)
Carl Theodor Dreyer, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
Satyajit Ray, Jalsaghar (1958)
Greenaway Information
Alfred Hitchcock, The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Fritz Lang (1890-1976)
Alain Resnais, L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
Patrice Chéreau, Gabrielle (2005)
Michael Haneke, La Pianiste (2001)
Patricia Mazuy, Saint-Cyr (2000)
Jonathan auf der Heide, Van Diemen's Land (2009)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953-) & Marc Caro
Jacques Tati, Play Time (1967)
Okamoto & Katsu, Zatôichi to Yôjinbô (1970)
Kurosawa, Yojimbo 用心棒 Yōjinbō (1961)
Okamoto, Samurai Assassin 侍 (1965)
Kihachi Okamoto 岡本喜八 (1924-2005)
Shintarō Katsu 勝新太郎 (1931-1997)
Zhang Yimou 張藝謀 (1951-)
Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
Park Chan-Wook 박찬욱 (1963-), Boksuneun Naui Geot 복수는 나의 것 (2002), Oldboy 올드보이 (2003), Thirst 박쥐 Bakjwi (2009)
Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
Guy Ritchie
Ken Russell
Peter Greenaway of course

Vermeer

Soldier & Laughing Girl (1658)

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