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Brian Phelan @osakaelegy.bsky.social · Nov 16
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Alfred Hitchcock mosaics, Leytonstone Underground Station, London, 1999, by Greenwich Mural Workshop for the centenary of his birth.
August 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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It It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth...'

Jorge Luis Borges
August 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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The River, 1951, Jean Renoir
August 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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On Substack, it's 1901 and Frederick Armitage is about to atomise time.
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May 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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On Substack, I take a musical journey through the boom time blue sky year of 1927. The year of It Girls and the Spirit of St Louis. What could go wrong?

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April 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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A ★★★★½ review of The Tale of Genji (1951)
It's exquisitely made, almost narcotically elegant, evoking the seasons, teeming rain, cold breezes, leaves in ponds, the camera prowling the big empty palaces of the nobility, diaphanous screens, bam...
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April 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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On Substack, I take a musical journey through the boom time blue sky year of 1927. The year of It Girls and the Spirit of St Louis. What could go wrong?

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April 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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A ★★★★½ review of The Crucified Lovers (1954)
For an Edo-period jidai-geki it's very noir. Fate conspires to bring this couple together, Mohei and Osan, the apprentice scroll-maker and his master's wife. Well-meaning lies, public morality, greed,...
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April 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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A Quiet Passion, 2016, Terence Davies
April 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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April 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Reflected Light Composition, 1923, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
April 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Like her mind's exploding in a fireball of ecstasy.
April 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A ★★★★½ review of À propos de Nice (1930)
What makes A propos de Nice so fascinating is its tonal slipperiness, its melding of styles. Documentary realism , social satire, political tract, surreal poetry. it's kind of all of these things, mad...
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April 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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On Substack it's last train am in Lisbon and I'm taking a rubbish photograph I will later (now) try to argue is good actually.

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Heaven and Here
It was late one night in Lisbon, rushing for the last underground train. I snapped this in passing on the way down the station steps.
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January 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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On Substack, a ghost story

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SEQUOIA
First published in the Honest Ulsterman, October 2018
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January 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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A journey through 1981 with John Foxx, David Byrne, Brian Eno, PIL, Glenn Branca, Josef K and Kraftwerk.

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November 22, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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First in short series on some classic photos, starting with William Claxton's Donald Byrd Takes the A Train from 1959.

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First in a series on classic photos begins with William Claxton's shot of jazz musician Donald Byrd.
Donald Byrd Takes the A Train, 1959, William Claxton
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November 16, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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A ★★★★★ review of The Lady Eve (1941)
''I need him like the ax needs the turkey.'' Accidentally fallen into a Preston Sturges run, and so to my favourite, arguably his best all round, one I've seen many times. This time, though, I was str...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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A ★★★★★ review of The Lady Eve (1941)
''I need him like the ax needs the turkey.'' Accidentally fallen into a Preston Sturges run, and so to my favourite, arguably his best all round, one I've seen many times. This time, though, I was str...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Kilkenny
March 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Silver Cones • Dunmore Cave • Kilkenny

These delicate cones made of carefully interwoven bands of silver wire, once decorated a garment of purple or deep red silk. It was found as part of a small Viking hoard within the dark depths of Dunmore Cave in County Kilkenny, Ireland.

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The finely woven silver wire cones or buttons on display in the National Museum of Ireland Looking back from the dark interior towards the brightness and vegetation of the mouth of Dunmore Cave
March 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I did a walk, took some photos. The short walk down the quay to the Peace Park revealed all kinds of history layered there; medieval, Victorian, personal. #walking #photography #history #Ireland
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Ghost Bridges and Regency Girls
Peace Park Walk, Kilkenny
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March 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM